(03-26-2019, 06:40 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: Is it ever an option?
I know it seems nonsensical, but for those born near the cusp, isn't choice a factor? I have been playing with the notion that generations overlap rather than having neat boundaries, so for people from these "grey areas" there must be some other factors apart from birth date.
Mark Zuckerberg and Amy Winehouse have been both born in 1984, but I see Zuckerberg as a millennial, while Amy as an Xer. From an older generation, we could point to Jimmy Carter who is more Silent-like despite being born in a supposed G.I. year.
Amy Winehouse was a late wave member of the British equivalents of Generation X, the Hooligan generation whose cohorts are roughly from 1966/7 to 1986. A lot of British figures born in those years are archetypically Nomads as well. The same observation can be made for early to middle 1980s cohorts on the European continent as well. It is much more obivious that those British public figures born in the early to middle 1960s are Prophets.
These are the years of British generations, which assorted former Fourth Turning members have proposed.
Air Raider (Artist) 1927-1946
Generation 68' (Prophet) 1947-1966
Hooligan (Nomad) 1967-1986
Millennial (Civic) 1987-2007?