Which founding father are you most like?

[Kinser79]

(07-20-2017, 12:37 PM)The Wonkette Wrote:

(07-20-2017, 11:14 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: I took an other extended break from the forum, and will likely be posting infrequently from here on out really.  I would say you're a early wave Xer Rags.  The way I break down the generations is pretty simple. 

Boomers remember JFK assignation but don't remember VJ day.
Xers Remember Challenger but not JFK
Millies remember 9-11 but not Challenger
Zeds (or Generation Z if you prefer) remember the crash of 08 but don't remember 9-11 (or if they do their recollection is extremely vague young childhood memories)

As you were all of a maximum age of 1 on 22 November 1963 you cannot be a boomer.  I would say your prophet tendencies are a result of being on the cusp, and personal experiences which the theory cannot account for.  S&H theory like Assimov's Psychohistory only really works on the mass level, with a preference for those masses being ignorant of its operation.

I'm with you until you get to the Homelanders, or as you call them, Zeds (I love that term, by the way).

Since there was only 7 years between 9/11 and the crash of 2008, you have a 7-year generation.  You are describing a cusp, similar to that of the Jonesers, not a real generation.

But yes, Rags is absolutely an early wave Gen-Xer, with a few Prophet streaks, being a cusper.  

The term "Zed" comes from the notion of calling them Generation Z.  "Zed" is the British name or the letter, and in all honesty sounds far better than "Zee", which itself is a Dutch word meaning a body of salt water.

I would say that that cusp is the one I have direct experience with.  I would say that most of the younger ones will not remember the crash of 08 (arguably the start of the 4T according to Howe, though I still stand by my Katrina thesis) I'm merely using that as a place holder.  Simply put the resolution of the 4T hasn't happened yet, and we won't know its happened until it has.  Using VJ day as an indicator, we can call that the end of the previous 4T.  I'd even call the JFK assination the end of the last 1T (though I would not say the same about Challenger as it really started close to the start of the late 3T--but it is my view that 3Ts have a tendency to behave oddly at times).