Generation Z = / = Homelander?

[Kinser79]

(11-04-2019, 11:41 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(11-04-2019, 06:23 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Indeed. This is coming from an Xer who just recently got a smart phone (and I still don't quite know how to use it).  I only got it because my flip phone died on me.

Same here, but I'm really glad I got it.  It has a built in alarm clock!  Also if you remember to turn on low power mode after charging it, the charge lasts for a week, and there don't seem to be any negative effects.

I rather like it. I tend to use it as a mp3 player more than anything else though. Having trashy European Techno on hand is nice for pushing through paperwork and doing the books. I'll have to check out low power settings though.

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(11-03-2019, 09:35 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: So were X shaped by the end of the Cold War?  Or don't they think they were involved in any major wars?

As an Xer and some would argue a near Core Xer if one uses 85 as their cut off (I don't know why, 82 seems about right for me for the last year of Xers--and I'm not going to argue with Aspie here on Cusps because well he's being an Aspie).  We were largely shaped by the end of the Cold War.  The fall of the Berlin Wall was a major event, and not just in Europe.  Also the dissolution of the USSR was a major event. 

So do us boomers who fought in the Cold War get any credit, the way GI do from Silents?  Or was the end of the Cold War just a random event that was nice?[/quote]

From Xers? No. I won't speak for other generations but Boomers and Xers have too much bad blood. We pretty much hate the air you guys breathe. More so if our parents are Boomers.

I would say that the End of the Cold War wasn't random. But also that Boomers and the West Generally had very very little to do with it. Rather Communism collapsed due to its own internal contradictions.

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Quote:Boomers:  No memories of VJ Day.  Remember the Kennedy Assassination.

As a 1960 boomer I don't remember the Kennedy assassination, though I was overseas at the time.  I remember Katrina even though I'm from Boston - it was a big storm even up here - but not so much I'd consider it a good turning marker.

I'd argue that you're a Jonser Cusper...though on the Boom side of the line. I don't buy into the idea that people born in the early 60s are boomers. They simply can't have had any reference for the key touch stones of Boomer culture. After all what where you 8-9 during Woodstock? 10 for Kent State?

Maybe Disco may mean something for you.

I'm open to the idea that Katrina might be a regional marker. But I'd say that for people down here, it was. What happens in New Orleans has a greater impact in the South than it would in Massachusetts.

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Quote:I'd say the oldest are in the 15-16 year old range excluding cusps.

I'm not even sure my 11 year old isn't a Millenial.  Depends on when the war comes.

Oh, and nice to see you again!

I'm fairly certain that he isn't. My 20 year old denies being a Millennial (even though I'd argue that he is one). But he largely views them as being self-absorbed hipster types who he'd probably not piss on if they were on fire.

I've been around just not posting as much. Politics has gotten extremely boring and very monochrome lately. Either all one's arguments are "Revere the God Emperor" or "Orange Man Bad!". That said at 40 I'm proud to say that I can still stop a conversation on Thanksgiving by simply making an announcement. My changing party affiliation didn't go over well.