How about star sign?
Actually, Adam couldāve gone into great detail on how tribe mentality contributes to Inhumane attitude towards others, while explaining his distaste against capitalism. Generation does exist, but only when it comes to the āfamily treeā. It should also note that Lewis Black did a skit once on the Daily Show on Millennials, only to come to the conclusion that theyāre not that much different form his generation.
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They are generalizations, kind of. Except they also include the extent to which the donāt apply, and hopefully some kind of error bars to express the extent to which they may be inaccurate.
Strictly speaking, yes, those are generalizations. But colloquially you know the difference just as well as I do.
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I think the best point ITT (of many good points) was [quote=āoranpkelley, post:15, topic:75680ā]
I think marketers have pretty aggressively pushed the idea of distinct, historical generations
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I think this is root of the issue. the āgenerationsā were created to sell you stuff. Like
Conover said, itās like engagement rings. The Motherās Day and Fatherās Day holidays also seem like a prototype of this same sort of social manipulation. Sadly, most people jump at the chance to belong to something and then buy stuff based on that identity. Itās yet another psychological bug thatās being exploited.
followed closely by
that there are organic age distinctions that spring up is also true, though, but I think they can more accurately be thought of as a form of cultural evolution akin to how we consider art movements and philosophy.
Iām 41. I have no career, so working in the service industry, I have worked with a lot of kids this age just entering the workplace. as a group, they seem fine, really. a few of them are extremely hard-working, responsible, and āget it.ā some of them are place-holders who ride the clock but are generally OK people. a few of them really suck.
within my generation, a few of my co-workers are extremely hard-working, responsible, and āget it.ā some of them are place-holders who ride the clock but are generally OK people. a few of them really suck.
of the older folks Iāve worked with or under, a few are extremely hard-working, responsible, and āget it.ā some of them are place-holders who ride the clock but are generally OK people. a few of them really suck.
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What you think about ___________ says a lot about you, nothing about them
At the risk of stating the obvious, this applies to almost any grouping of people larger than a glee club.* Tribalism is baked right into our monkey brains, and because our monkey brains are so large, weāre extremely good at finding clever new tribes to put ourselves in (and others out of).
Not NEARLY so good at recognizing when weāre doing it.
*Ā cruel generalizations about glee clubs are still okay
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These days itās SO easy just to conclude people are assholes on an individual basis these labels feel kind of tacky and unnecessary.
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I absolutely am concerned about it. I use noscript, adblocks and custom host files to mitigate as much of it as I can. My point was more about how these arenāt new things since the internet and social media popped up.
Certainly I believe itās much easier now because all of these things were fragmented over vastly different mediums, but now itās all literally in a single barrel. But in saying that, I also feel we have more control than ever now too. With some of the above mentioned tricks for basic home user and personal privacy for one. And then high end encryption, VPN services and alike.
Ah that font!!!
Itās every goth kids first font when they pirate photoshop.
Source: Use to be a goth kid that used this font when I first pirated photoshop. DONāT LOOK AT ME!!!
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What you think about Millennials says a lot about you, nothing about them.
Keep in mind that you can replace āMillennialsā with pretty much anything, and still have a true statement. So, not really as profound as you may have thought it was.
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Even Thanksgiving was basically about selling cookbooks.
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Douglas Coupland does.
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All I know about āMillennialsā comes from what others have written.
One thing that happens is a feedback process. A group assimilates whatās being said about them,
so whether the commentary reflects large numbers, it starts to after the commentary.
Iāve seen claims that they are ever so ecological, both the kids and third parties. Since I remember Earth Day and inventing bike paths locally in 1970, it is amusing to see claims that the kids are driving the growth if bike paths. The claims ignore so much that happened fifty and forty years go, as if the kids have invented it all. There seems to be a mild āback to the landā movement, even if only urban gardening in some cases, and no acknowledgement that itās happened before.
In the sixties, the baby boom meant a whole lot of people of the same age. That mass made for a lot of communication, and there was also underground newspapers and underground radio stations. So when The Diggers needed participants for some event, they had ComCo print up broadsheets. When Abbie Hoffman tried to duplicate such things in New York City, he called Bob Fasseās late night radio show and the mob showed up at Grand Central Station.
I gather the āmillennialsā may include a minor population boom along the way, but what they do have is the internet. That probably builds up a certain group mind, like in the sixties, so they can reinforce each other. So an identity becomes easy to take on.
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*lolz
Hey, it was a choice between that one and this:
And there are worse fonts to be had; at least it aināt ācomic sans.ā
Spoken like a true Gen Xāer.
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Is that why the USA is going for a foul-mouthed grade schooler as president? To fight ageism?
(in reply to an earlier post about 8 or 9 posts above); Well even thatās true. Though I do sometimes just get that feeling as if weāre heading from one state (a āminimisedā democracy) towards another; we donāt know what that is yet, but it looks a whole lot worseā¦x.x
Social media is stealinā our freedoms!!!
Is what I hear you saying. Iām sure thatās not what you meanā¦ or is it?
Besides āDonāt be so cranky,ā my take-away from this is that nobody likes to be pitched.
I donāt know if thatās quite so. At least for me. I donāt mind being pitched if I feel that Iāve been recognized and that my needs and desires have been considered.
Itās a harder task than generalizing and hoping for a hit.
Tough breaks, marketeers, Iād say that it is the task before you.
Back to the ācrankyā part. I think its safe to say that developments and events do have effects on generational groups. Generations do changeā¦ a bit. What doesnāt change is complaints about them.
OMG, thanks for posting this! Iāve been griping along these same lines for years about people hurling the āhipsterā insult at anyone a)younger than them and b)doing something they donāt understand. The funny thing is, I hear it the most from my older friends that used to be anarchist punks!!! Whenever they say it, Iām like, are you fucking kidding me right now? You are insulting kids for the music and clothes they like?
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Old people, eh?
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