Millennials and GenZ horribly misidentified

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(01-08-2020, 10:06 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(01-08-2020, 09:57 AM)Ghost Wrote:

(01-07-2020, 06:32 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:

(01-06-2020, 12:37 PM)Ghost Wrote:

(05-03-2019, 11:00 AM)AspieMillennial Wrote: 9/11 was far more impactful than Hurricane Sandy. 9/11 is when the mentality started to shift towards "Give up your freedoms in the name of society and security. Authority good." The war in Iraq resulting from this also resulted in the deficit that caused the 2008 crash. It's all related. Your coming of age is when your innocence is shattered. For Boomers, it was 1963 when JFK got assassinated. For Millennials it was 2001 or 2008. 2006 was not very significant at all IMO.

Cases can be made for 2007, considering that was when the iPhone came out, when LCD TVs outsold cathode ray tube TVs, and when the Recession started. But I really can't see how 2006 is significant.

I think that two things that we know for sure are that the key Boomer year was 1968 and that the key Gen X year was 1989. However, the key Millennial year is somewhat up for debate because of how there could be many candidates for it (with good reasons). I might take a stab and say 2011 because that was when Osama bin Laden got killed, when Occupy Wall Street (a big Millennial event) occurred, and when the hipster culture started to become more mainstream. Please correct me if I am wrong.

2006 was the year when millennial online culture became really visible. Also the Iraqi civil war happened which made the American public switch to an anti-war mood. But I agree that 2011 is the key millennial year. 2006 was the start of the millennial zeitgeist, like 1964 was the start of boomer zeitgeist.

Then the youngest boomers were 8 in 1968 and the youngest millennials were 9 in 2011.

It also seems to coincide with the Uranus cycle saeculum length (84.3 years).

Consumer technologies do not bring traumatic change as do financial panics, wars, or usurpation of power. People do not adopt any technology all at the same time. If the automobile does not divide the Lost from the GI -- and I have never seen anyone claim that the automobile separates the Lost from the GI's -- then how could something like an i-device make such a difference? The potential of participation in World War I and the raw deal for returning WWI vets made a huge difference.

It was WWI vets who got the raw deal, faced with moral nagging that led to the prohibition of liquor and the Bonus Army revolt of 1932. WWII vets were able to benefit from the newly enacted GI Bill, spawned from lessons learned from post-WWI mistakes which enabled them to buy homes and otherwise participate in what many still feel is America's Golden Age (even though it did have dark sides such as McCarthyism). It was a time when most households could be supported handily on one paycheck. I more and more feel that those days will probably never come again. August 5, 1981, the day Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers, stands out in many minds as the requiem for middle class prosperity as we had come to know it. This branch of society has never really recovered in the nearly four decades since.