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[Marypoza]

(02-23-2019, 08:45 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(02-23-2019, 06:26 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:

(02-22-2019, 02:35 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Mr. Howe still predicts the 4T will end in 2029, and puts the 4T as starting in 2008. For our purposes, the generational theory works best. This concerns the influence of history and social moods shaping generational archetypes and personalities, with the generational configuration shaping the moods and turnings in turn. Pew research provides a demographic designation, and this only has to do with things like birth rates, and was specifically rejected by S&H and other generation theorists as a method of dating generations.

Thank you, this explains a lot.

Quote:Missionary 1860-1882
Lost 1883-1900

Olaf Stapledon was born in 1886, and he definitely was a Missionary.

Quote:Gen Z 2004-2024
Generation Alpha 2025-2044

Given that the pop pundits define Generation Alpha as born between 2010 and 2024, I suspect people born in 2004-2009 will start calling themselves Alpha as well (first generation to be born in the new century), while our favourite romantic rebels or neo-Missionaries could be Beta. Unless they reject this name, since beta brain waves stand for everything mundane. Theta waves are about all things "awakening-related": dreaming, intense emotions, even hypnosis. Generation Theta, what a nice name! I wish I could call myself that.

Those who remain interested in a genuine understanding of generations, will still adhere to the original dates similar to those of S&H, and not make the absurd definition of Generation Alpha as born between 2010 and 2024. These cohorts will be adaptives, not prophets, whatever Pew calls them. Generation Theta would be a fine prophet name, but it also disrupts the alphabetical scheme, and as you say Generation Beta will not fly for a prophet group.

--  Generation Beta sounds like an adaptive group