Current anomaly: Five generations alive!

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(01-15-2020, 01:31 PM)Anthony Wrote:

(01-14-2020, 06:32 PM)Ghost Wrote:

(01-14-2020, 02:18 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(08-13-2019, 07:02 AM)Anthony Wrote: I have made a few changes since the days of http://www.babybusters.org, which will be undergoing major changes soon.  While pretty much willing to conform to S&H's model up through the Lost, after that the pattern changes, and the generations become shorter:

Interbellum Generation: Born 1901-1910 (core grandparents of the Baby Busters)
World War II Generation: Born 1911-1926 (by the time the 1927 cohorts got out of basic training, WW2 was already over)
Silent Generation: Born 1927-1942 (core parents of the Baby Busters)
Baby Boomers: Born 1943-1957 (no memory of WW2)
Baby Busters: Born 1958-1968 (Birth rate declined 11 years in a row; rejected Boomer views on political and social issues; entire childhood shaped by Cold War)
Core Xers: Born 1969-1981
Millennials: Born 1982-1998
Activists: Born 1999-2019? (no memory of 9/11)

Civics are activists, as they were in the 1930s. The March for our Lives activists were millennials and saw themselves as such at the time. The young climate activists are cuspers like Greta. But the artist generations are not so activist, at least not until midlife. They are "silent" and well-behaved, as they are described today.

I think that "activists" make sense as a subgeneration, ranging from 2000-2003 (or late 1999-mid 2003 if you go by graduating years), because the Parkland activists (David Hogg, Kyle Kashuv, etc), Greta Thunberg, Nick Sandmann, and CJ Pearson were all born during that four-year timeframe. 

I think that adding 1999/late 1998-mid 1999 is kind of a stretch for the "activist" label because while they certainly can't remember 9/11, they weren't at school for the Parkland shooting (I am going to assume that Parkland is probably why Anthony 58 called his definition of the Activist generation "Activists").

Correctamente!  And if there is another Civil War anomaly (with a 2021-25 4T), the 1999-2019 generation will be the Prophets/Idealists of the next saeculum, with the Millennials suffering the same fate as the Progressives, and the Core Xers becoming the new Gilded (Busters will end up playing the same role as the Clement Attlees of post-WW2 Britain, and may be in power only briefly).

I kind of disagree with the "Activist" label on your definition because it really only applies to 2000-2003, not 1999 and earlier or 2004 and after.