10-27-2020, 03:51 PM
I've been perusing the Reddit generation channels (Millenials (ghost town), GenZ (really just millennials), and generationology (wild place where discussion is prohibited, especially dissenting discussion).
I"m finding two main arguments that people who refuse to believe in Strauss Howe wield on repeat. I don't really understand the arguments, but thoughts on the most effective (kind) debunking approaches?
1. I was born in 2002, there's no way someone born in 2018 is more like me than someone born in 1998!
My complex rebuttal is that formative years (0-5) matter and that being raised in positive 90's for even a couple of those years leads to differences from someone born under very different parenting styles post-9/11.
2. Refusal to believe someone can have a child or nephew (? seriously) of their same generation.
This one just makes me scowl.
I"m finding two main arguments that people who refuse to believe in Strauss Howe wield on repeat. I don't really understand the arguments, but thoughts on the most effective (kind) debunking approaches?
1. I was born in 2002, there's no way someone born in 2018 is more like me than someone born in 1998!
My complex rebuttal is that formative years (0-5) matter and that being raised in positive 90's for even a couple of those years leads to differences from someone born under very different parenting styles post-9/11.
2. Refusal to believe someone can have a child or nephew (? seriously) of their same generation.
This one just makes me scowl.