Posted on 01/14/2005 8:21:34 AM PST by Ellesu
Finally, I have my own generation — Generation Jones — and it was my generation that handed President Bush a second term. According to Jonathan Pontell, a sociologist and author, a large chunk of Baby Boomers are not Baby Boomers at all. Those of us born between 1954 and 1965 have little in common with the first wave of boomers, but nobody has articulated this fact until recently. When boomers were indulging in drugs and free love, we were doing our homework. While they were driving around in VW Beetles and protesting the Viet Nam war, we were watching The Brady Bunch. The boomers had reason to be idealistic, you see.
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I was born in 1954. I had a wild young life, did my homework, drove a 1974 VW beetle, did not protest the war, and hated the Brady Bunch.
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As a member of the aforementioned generation, I disagree.
I was indulging in drugs while driving around in my VW, never did my homework and still voted Republican in every election.
I cast my first vote in 1976. I kept things interesting at parties by suggesting we turn Southeast Asia into a parking lot and arguing against the Nixon impeachment.
Same here, though I was born a littler earlier. One thing to our credit, I think ours was the last generation that actually read books....not what someone else said about books.
Love it and TOTALLY agree. While even the Brady Bunch was beneath me, my high school year book page read:
HATES OLD HIPPIES AND GEEKS.
Couldn't stand the older Boomers even when I was a teen.
Did I mention my last name is Jones?
Bitchin' Bump!
OK, somebody give us the numbers. What are the official birth dates that bracket the Boomer Generation? 1945-54? When I first read about Generation Jones a month or so ago I thought they were people the same age as the Boomers, but who resisted the dominant, flashy trend. Is Generation Jones defined to be half a generation younger than the Boomers?
These are just arbitrary labels, so the date are arbitrary too, but if you choose the dates well you find certain realities lying behind the labels.
I read things on the internet about 6Xs more since though days.
My bug went though snow like no other car of its day.
"I read things on the internet about 6Xs more since though days."
Would you like to take another stab at that? It's incomprehensible.
Geez he's nailed it! When the older boomers were doing the hippie thing and going to Woodstock, my age group was listing to the Monkees. I always resented being lumped in with the hippie generation. We were nothing like them. I was in high school in the early 70's and then college. We watched Three's Company and the first (and best) years of Saturday Night Live.
No protests, no flower children, no tie-dye (thank goodness!) We, and the generation after us did, however, have to suffer from their legacy - the "free love" thing, breakdown of the family, etc., and we still do.
I guess that makes us self loathing Boomers, but I hate Boomers also.
They are bald men with pony tails and shrill women with raisins for ovaries.
"One thing to our credit, I think ours was the last generation that actually read books"
An interesting statement, given the enormous success of the Harry Potter series of books. How many 700 page books did you read back then?
marshamarashmarsha!
Born in '61.
By the time I "got there" the Boy Scouts were in decline, as were mainline churches.
The self-imposed restraint that made the excesses of Woodstock possible were gone in my generation.
The schools had lost their way badly -- I was the kid they tried "New math" and "open concept schools" on.
The Summer of Love gave way to the Summer of Saturday Night Fever.
The Kennedy Camalot... let's just say we watched Watergate hearings all summer long because that was the only thing on TV.
Oh, and the Beetles broke up, and my generation had to contend with Disco.
The economy of the late '70's doesn't come close to the glory days of the 60's economy, complete with "stagflation" and double-digit unemployement and double-digit inflation.
Finally, "boomers" my age were the last of the full college ride via Financial Aid, and were much too late to have tuition rates reasonable enough to work our way through college.
I'm sure I've missed a few... but yeah, we are certainly a different bunch than those who went before us. I cringe... run from the room... when a left-over hippy gets out his guitar and starts singing folk songs to protest the Iraqii war. I guess if you can't grow your hair long anymore, or have a summer of love w/o Viagra, you can always protest a Texan wartime President?
57 here and I always felt I was not a boomer. Dad was a pilot in Nam. I supported the war and regged to vote when I turned 18. I thought about it and decided I was a rep, even though mom and dad never talked politics. So I was never a bleeding heart liberal. I am the oppisite of what boomers are supposed to be. I was smart enough to know Dr Spock was a fool. Us boomers get a bad rap.
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