Can I offer you one of the T-shirts I just made? ("Where Are the Adults?") Great article. I am a Gen Xer, and while I generally despise all these neat labelings of generations (much like we stamp decades with names as if everything changes on the 1s....) I do find that I hold a weird place between trailing the boomers and resenting the…
Can I offer you one of the T-shirts I just made? ("Where Are the Adults?") Great article. I am a Gen Xer, and while I generally despise all these neat labelings of generations (much like we stamp decades with names as if everything changes on the 1s....) I do find that I hold a weird place between trailing the boomers and resenting them for well established reasons; The "Me" Generation by Tom Wolfe, Wall Street, Oliver Stone etc. and whatever the younger ones are called ---I can't even keep track anymore. Y, Z, Millenial. What I do know is that what you said is true. Fathers walking with their 4 year olds down the street are dressed exactly alike now. 20-somethings at home spend far too much time at home in a social media echo chambers. My question is this....if we are caught between octogenerians in power making decisions and people in their 20s and 30s still "finding themselves" using lovely things like TikTok, where is the wide swath of people like me? In their forties and fifties, raised latchkey sometimes and allowed to trip and fall and do stupid stuff without helicopter parenting. Young enough to be on social media but old enough to know how toxic it can be. Why aren't all of us speaking out and telling the younger generations to put on some big girl/boy pants? Or speaking up against the old status quo from war time? This is what perplexes me. I also believe the silence or perhaps inaccess to people that are upset about all this is what has allowed "cancel culture" to take over. Struggling to understand it.
Can I offer you one of the T-shirts I just made? ("Where Are the Adults?") Great article. I am a Gen Xer, and while I generally despise all these neat labelings of generations (much like we stamp decades with names as if everything changes on the 1s....) I do find that I hold a weird place between trailing the boomers and resenting them for well established reasons; The "Me" Generation by Tom Wolfe, Wall Street, Oliver Stone etc. and whatever the younger ones are called ---I can't even keep track anymore. Y, Z, Millenial. What I do know is that what you said is true. Fathers walking with their 4 year olds down the street are dressed exactly alike now. 20-somethings at home spend far too much time at home in a social media echo chambers. My question is this....if we are caught between octogenerians in power making decisions and people in their 20s and 30s still "finding themselves" using lovely things like TikTok, where is the wide swath of people like me? In their forties and fifties, raised latchkey sometimes and allowed to trip and fall and do stupid stuff without helicopter parenting. Young enough to be on social media but old enough to know how toxic it can be. Why aren't all of us speaking out and telling the younger generations to put on some big girl/boy pants? Or speaking up against the old status quo from war time? This is what perplexes me. I also believe the silence or perhaps inaccess to people that are upset about all this is what has allowed "cancel culture" to take over. Struggling to understand it.