worst generation

so this is as good as it gets

are u aware

chaotic neutral gen-y explorer checking in

"techno-punk" sounds cooler, it's not fair

Techno-punk sounds awful!

techno punk sounds super lame

explorer is rad, we could be astronauts

Hmm...I'm an "Explorer, Part Two". Somehow it figures that I'm a sequel.

Explorer Part Two: The Mellowening

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very ambivalent about technopunk
on the one hand:
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on the other:
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technopunk makes me think of white zombie or something

If the 'greatest generation' hadn't been so racist, it would have been a pretty good generation.

As a boomer, I know we were hopelessly erratic and a sizeable herd of us stampeded into conservatism in the most mindless and reactionary sort of way. But we aren't ALL bad, y'know. Boomers revived feminism from dormancy. Boomer gays started gay lib. Boomers even changed the American diet away from hot dish and jello salad.

Not intimate with later generations, but from what I've seen of the younger generations, they were likeable enough. I got no beef with them and certainly have no desire to peg any of them as 'worst'.

I abstain.

that is the best opening to a post

Explorers, part two –––– I feel good about this

EXPLORERS, MOUNT UP

Boomers the worst

I like how TINY the window is for explorers pt 2 and how vague and uninspiring the description is:

They are undisciplined and unfocused, but probably very positive and mature otherwise.

probably

who knows, maybe

does anyone *really* ever know?

they suck but they're probably decent

I am an Explorer, except for the part where almost none of the Explorer description fits me. Except maybe the 'acting out on alienation destructively' part.

probably

They are "mellow," but also very cynical

the quotes confuse me

is he saying we're high? uptight?

yeah i'm an explorer part two, as well, i feel this justifies my m4riju4na intake. the thing with boomers is they have basically gotten away with making the stage play of their adolescence official history. it's more sad than anything. the whole narrative is what capitalism really needed to get where it is now imo. xp

What about the part where the "greatest generation" set up all this infrastructure that enabled the boomers to do all these horrible things?

Horrible things? Refrigerators and washing machines and transistor radios and hi-fi's and reel to reel and...?

h8 refrigerators

Regardless, it was the golden age of household appliances and consumer goods for the working class, finally

ppl of my generation cannot relate to all these 'quirky jokes' about hating refrigerators and shit

I've lived w/o a refrigerator before - in Paris with a lusty and lovely blonde. It was eminently do-able for me back then.

life - refrigerator + lusty lovely blonde + paris = doable

yep all checks out

also highways and SPACE TRAVEL

kinda love the Greatest Generation even though the name kind of makes me want to not like them at all

If you have a market within easy walking distance, refrigeration is less of a necessity I expect.

...depending on which generation you are from.

bring back the icebox

Bring back the iceman!

The Iceman Cometh Backeth

Am I a dick for not entirely buying the greatest generation thing? They didn't want war but they got it. They weren't exactly eager to join up and they got drafted. The economy finally recovered after 12 years and then they all moved to the 'burbs and started voting like a bunch of Republican dicks.

also most of them are dead

If you have a market within easy walking distance

We did. We also subsisted on l'amour et l'eau fraîche. Actually, we had pasteurised milk and butter fro breakfast that we kept on a ledge outside that was both pigeon-proof and got no sun. Other than that, we either ate out or only bought what we needed for lunch/dinner.

Three of my greatest gen grandparents are alive!

ur killing me w/this french butter on the windowsill imagery, feel like throwing my american refrigerator in the ocean

As a boomer I got a good look at the prior generation. They were my parents, my teachers, all the adults in my life as I grew up. They were mostly ok, except the rampant racism I mentioned above.

They were pretty thoroughly propagandized against the commies, too, but the commies mostly obliged them by being huge dicks and occupying eastern europe. Problem was, they had trouble distinguishing between commies and, say, civil rights advocates, or garden variety socialists.

Hard working people right across the board. Even the rottenest of capitalist pigs worked their tails off to amass their huge wealth and defend it.

In the morning we'd heat the milk, spread the butter on the baguette toast and then pour the milk in the coffee. It was '88, I think, and I was a little disconcerted by her love of Rick Astley; thorn on the rose, serpent in the garden, etc...

x-post

MW, have u read this? http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/witnessing-a-change-in-williamsburg-brooklyn

I have now but I'm not sure how it's germane to the thread or my little derail

snows of yesteryear sentiments?

The greatest generation came up with a lot of the modern conveniences we now take for granted due to the insanely rapid industrialization of the US in the postwar era. Not really their fault, but they also created a system of production that they later moved to other countries as soon as it proved profitable, privileged automobile traffic in all instances over rail, let the fear of communism drive voting and public policy for decades, and unironically accepted the "Leave it to Beaver" model of entertainment until the cynicism of "All in the Family". And as mentioned above, the racism and attitudes were such that my grandfather found Archie Bunker funny because he thought he was on-point!

i would like to hear someone from the silent generation critique the greatest generation and compare it to gen x talking about boomers

something something refrigerators something something war something something racism something something DADDY WAS MEAN

xp - pretty sure there were quite a few scenes of this in the first two seasons of Mad Men, Mordy