05-15-2016, 06:13 PM
(05-15-2016, 01:05 PM)Odin Wrote: As an early-wave Millie who just turned 30 I am feeling like I close to completely losing my ability to relate to today's teens, I can definitely "feel" on a visceral level that the cusp of a new generation is approaching adulthood.
We Millennials are not the "kids", anymore.
Getting detached from the youth culture? I thought that that was a Boomer phenomenon around 1980 when the pop culture went from being made for Boomers to being made for Generation X. So that is nothing new.
So I learned something. Maybe I'm not so old, after all.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.