worst generation

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

There's also that part where the greatest generation fought a "good war," then transitioned into the cold war, and sent their kids off to Vietnam.

no gen-x'ers really yet in mad men

i think the thread kinda touched on this earlier but how do these generation tropes travel outside the united states? i assume like uk probably shares a lot of similar ideas and maybe other english speaking countries too? do they exist at all in non-English speaking countries? are they replaced with totally different paradigms?

Baby boomers aren't just an idea, though - food rationing didn't end in England until 1954, for example.

I mean, we know what is signified by these terms, it's just that what's signified is americans.

European and South-Pacific trends

Many European countries, Australia and New Zealand also experienced a baby boom. In some cases the total fertility rate almost doubled. The American birth model, conceived by demographer Frank Notestein, was punctuated by an end to the upsurge in births and a return to pre-war levels. In many European countries the first year of the Post World War II baby boom was the year 1946, but in Germany the first year was the year 1955 in Finland the largest birth rate was in August and September 1945. Prior to World War II, fertility rates in Europe and America were on a general decline due to improved nutrition and medicine, and a surge in births were previously not experienced at such a large scale. Based on this model, baby boom years for other countries regarded for having a baby boom are as follows:[by whom?][citation needed]

Hungary's population pyramid in 1960 with boom generations
France 1946–1974
United Kingdom 1946–1974
Finland 1945–1950
Germany 1955-1967
Sweden 1946–1952
Denmark 1946–1950
Netherlands 1946–1972
Ireland 1946–1982
Hungary 1946-1957
Iceland 1946–1969
New Zealand 1946–1961
Australia 1946–1961
In some of these examples, an "echo boom" followed some time after as the offspring of the initial boom gave rise to a second increase, with a baby "bust" in between. The birth years of the baby boom as noted being both short and long lived, creates what many believe to be a myth to the notion of defining baby boomers as one "generation", as a unified concept is clearly not possible. Indeed, multiple generations may be present in a single country such as Ireland where the boom lasted 36 years. This overlapping effect of generations is not illuminated when considering crude fertility rates. The only common ground for the collective boom is the same approximate starting year. This example can be applied to each state in the United States on an individual basis. The states with a census in place in 1946 saw fertility rates drop to pre-war levels throughout the 1960s, with the average being in 1964.

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

Mindless facetiousness is definitely a generational marker.

Also, if you uptalk you're Gen X or later.

If you habitually use the vocal fry register you're Gen Y or later.

i think just different models of mindless facetiousness

the greatest generation/silent generation(?)/boomers are almost done screwing me now. it's these young hooses who want to take away all my hard-earned wages to fund oil can boyd.

joke's on them because i have no money to take away

actually that's not true re: the boomers

fortunately our american two-party system will show them what's what

man my refrigerator joke is universal

stare into this joke and see the cosmos youngins

Which generation does the guy in LMFAO with the funny red hair belong to? His is the best generation.

I really hate the Mexican War generation cept for Lincoln

whichever the OG handlebar mustache and pocketwatch generation is = my favorite generation