worst generation

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

millenials seems the least skeptical of authority of anyone since them who fought in the great wars

I definitely think this is one side of the coin. There is a sizable number of them, for instance, involved in the Occupy movement on the other side of the coin, but these are kids who came of age in Bush II's America and for whom The Patriot Act has been a thing roughly forever (not to mention that No Child Left Behind probably hobbled a lot of critical faculties right out of the gate). A lot of that shit has, unfortunately, become pretty normalized. Like, I'll rant about stuff around my sister like Facebook's disregard for people's privacy, and she just could not give one solitary fuck. Actually, I could probably suss out a lot of the generational divide based on the stuff my sister and I wildly disagree about.

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

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, May 2, 2012 4:45 AM (7 minutes ago)

this is like the generation that killed loads of people in the third world in the process of stealing their resources whilst failing to realize how much better wristwatches are than pocketwatches

Like, I'll rant about stuff around my sister like Facebook's disregard for people's privacy, and she just could not give one solitary fuck.

Lack of interest in privacy among the younger generations is a trend that should be lauded. A more open society is a better society.

Give people a bit of privacy and you don't know what they'll do with it.

not a more open society, a 24/7 communal shower society

It is a travesty that humans are allowed to bathe alone in any capacity.

Somebody get Tombot to weigh in on this

my answer is the boomers, naturally. handed the greatest society yet, and trashed it all.

banaka, we're working as hard as possible to attain singularity. plz, just a little patience.

boomers did okay. i don't think any single 20th century american generation deserves to be called the best or worst, except maybe gen exxors, who don't seem to have accomplished much but general apathy and the digitization of everything.

those are 2 p awesome accomplishments tho

xp - traitor!

hey, it's what we do

there's probably a douglas copeland book about it

Yeah, self-loathing is probably as endemic of gen x as self-satisfaction is of the millinnials.

have we ever discussed vocal fry on ilx? i don't see a thread for it..

we talked abt it somehwerrreee

oh my gawd

does lumpy space princess talk with a vocal fry?

I remember reading about it on here before but I have a feeling it may be lost in a general discussion thread...

oh my glob. what the lump?

Banaka showing up on a thread like this means I am going to have a great day.

i really love banaka

he should post here ray kurzweil's 'the singularity is near' & any other technological singularity-related books you might care about

it's a banaka blast

why DID the Boomers 'stampede into conservatism' as mentioned upthread? my parents are classic Boomers and my mum is classic Boomer-Conservative. i'm always baffled how that happened. is this a known 'thing' in the States?

yes. it's partially the neoconservative story too

people get older they get conservative ronald reagan blah blah

blah blah david mamet blah blah

Esp inasmuch as many of the founding neo-cons were liberals or fellow-travelers who crossed over to the dark side.

xxpost

why DID the Boomers 'stampede into conservatism' as mentioned upthread? my parents are classic Boomers and my mum is classic Boomer-Conservative. i'm always baffled how that happened. is this a known 'thing' in the States?

they weren't particularly liberal to begin w/

contrary to popular belief most 20 somethings were not living on haight st in 1969

*audible gasp*

mamet writes reviews like he writes dialogue:

"What can one say to the self-proclaimed 'independent' who never has nor ever will vote other than Democratic; or to the wise soul suggesting, of any conflict at all, "the truth must lie somewhere in between"? Mr. Goldberg reminds us that one must stand up and demand of the muddled and supine either an absolute declaration of their principles and acknowledgment of the results of actions having flowed therefrom or a straightforward admission of their intransigence in refusing a concise reply."

(-DAVID MAMET, bestselling author of The Secret Knowledge )

^mamet endorsing the tyrrany of cliches

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