(01-14-2020, 07:09 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(01-14-2020, 06:50 PM)Ghost Wrote:(01-14-2020, 06:40 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(01-14-2020, 06:32 PM)Ghost Wrote:(01-14-2020, 02:18 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: 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").
I don't disagree with calling early 2000s cohorts, and perhaps 1999-98 cohorts too, as a subgeneration called activists. In my 1997 book I called them "flame throwers" and said they would be effective reformers and propagandists. I see them as the last subgeneration of millennials and I called them Generation Y-c. They appear to me as later incarnations, so to speak, of the best and brightest that surrounded JFK.
http://philosopherswheel.com/generations.htm
I probably wouldn't add 1998 and even 1999 to the list because not only were those born in 1998 and 1999 out of high school when the Parkland shooting happened, but they were also already college upperclassmen when the September 2019 climate strikes took place. I also have a feeling that most of those who participated in the September 2019 climate strikes were the same age as those who were in high school for the Parkland shooting, or in other words those born from 2000 to 2003.
Yes, I saw that. I think some of the Parkland activists were born in 1999, though. In my book I even extended them back to 1996, but those were less typical than those born after 1998. But accounts may differ on exact dates.
The only one I can think of is Emma Gonzalez (born November 1999, making her the odd one out). There's even a Parkland activist born in 1997 (Hunter Pollack), but he wasn't at school at the time. The rest (David Hogg, Sarah Chadwick, Cameron Kasky, Kyle Kashuv, etc) were born between 2000 and 2003.
But even if they were born in 1999, they'd be from the HS class of 2018 (born late 1999-mid 2000), which mostly consists of 2000 borns.