[*]Gen Z, iGen, or Centennials: Born 1996 and later
[*]Millennials or Gen Y: Born 1977 to 1995
[*]Generation X: Born 1965 to 1976
[*]Baby Boomers: Born 1946 to 1964
[*]Traditionalists or Silent Generation: Born 1945 and before
Gen X were just becoming adults when millennials were first born. The oldest Gen Xer in 1977 was 12 years old. The boomers in 1977 ranged from age 13 to age 31.
Millennials are a boomer production.
Gen Z began in 1996. We were age 20 to age 31 when Gen Z was first being born. Those are our kids.
Keep your poison harvest to yourselves.
I dont think those numbers are concrete.
I was born in 92, but that daily caller descrption of gen z describes me adequately.
1. In the literal sense, you have women having a greater institutional influence on children growing up these days. With women entering the workplace at a higher degree than past generations from WW2 onwards, and most kindergarden and elementary school teachers being women, you're going to have a generation or more of kids being raised with less adult male interaction than previous generations. Today most households across the Western world are not capable of sustaining themselves on one income alone, and wages haven't neccesarily followed the rise in profits over the last several decades.
2. In America's case, specifically, there is an economic, social and increasingly cultural incentive to proving oneself is a victim of someone or something. The reward is cash in litigation, face time on TV and fame on social media, or political power in certain circles.
A government that fears being sued because some helicopter parent can't accept that falling from the jungle jim simply falls into the "shit happens" category, will make it easy for themselves and simply make it against the law to let your kids play alone at the jungle jim... or YOU gots to pay the government.
3. The Western world, from governments to banks want control, they obsess about it and want a more "manageable" world. Not in any sort of world conspiracy, Illuminati sense sort of way, it is simply a cultural phenomenon amongst those in power, all sectors of power that has arisen as a result of the risk-averse banking world's culture being transplanted unto all other levels of society:
I don't believe they crave control in any sort of big, ideological way. It's simply that the limit to what level of risk, the level of unpredictability one would tolerate and view as surmountable, has decreased and is decreasing.
Why are non-elites, those not in power adopting and accepting a decreased rate of freedom of movement, risk acceptance and freedom overall? Because throughout history, it's always been from the wealthy and powerful that everyone else took their most significant cultural and political cues.
4. Because lately political debates in US society that could have challenged the "pussification" cannot be had in a debating climate, where you are considered to have "won" an argument if you've written something meme-worthy.... but which is only a good point to those agreeing with your views in the first place. People seem more inclined to pretend to be the host of the Daily Show, making some political joke, then imagine an audience laughing at their joke. People debate like they're putting on a show, not like they're trying to convince anyone.
Postby The Conservative » Fri May 19, 2017 7:13 am
Martin Hash wrote:Pussy parents make pussier kids. Blame GenX.
Blame Baby Boomers... they gave rise to the Gen X mentality... the You could do anything bullshit. My son and I play outside when we can, and I'm not working. He is part of play groups that do the same, I refuse to have him become one of the problems of this world.
[*]Gen Z, iGen, or Centennials: Born 1996 and later
[*]Millennials or Gen Y: Born 1977 to 1995
[*]Generation X: Born 1965 to 1976
[*]Baby Boomers: Born 1946 to 1964
[*]Traditionalists or Silent Generation: Born 1945 and before
Gen X were just becoming adults when millennials were first born. The oldest Gen Xer in 1977 was 12 years old. The boomers in 1977 ranged from age 13 to age 31.
Millennials are a boomer production.
Gen Z began in 1996. We were age 20 to age 31 when Gen Z was first being born. Those are our kids.
Keep your poison harvest to yourselves.
I dont think those numbers are concrete.
I was born in 92, but that daily caller descrption of gen z describes me adequately.
It would make sense that there are national and even regional differences to which behavioral and cultural qualities attached to the respective generational names. We aren't seeing helicopter parents untill now for example, so the small kids growing up now might become our version of US millenials. In a country as large as the US, and with a - AFAICT - significant difference between rural and urban culture, I'd expect millenials from one region of the US may not be the same as ones from another region, behaviorally and in terms of culture growing up.
Postby Speaker to Animals » Fri May 19, 2017 7:16 am
Sparrow941 wrote:
Speaker to Animals wrote:
[*]Gen Z, iGen, or Centennials: Born 1996 and later
[*]Millennials or Gen Y: Born 1977 to 1995
[*]Generation X: Born 1965 to 1976
[*]Baby Boomers: Born 1946 to 1964
[*]Traditionalists or Silent Generation: Born 1945 and before
Gen X were just becoming adults when millennials were first born. The oldest Gen Xer in 1977 was 12 years old. The boomers in 1977 ranged from age 13 to age 31.
Millennials are a boomer production.
Gen Z began in 1996. We were age 20 to age 31 when Gen Z was first being born. Those are our kids.
Keep your poison harvest to yourselves.
I dont think those numbers are concrete.
I was born in 92, but that daily caller descrption of gen z describes me adequately.
You are at the end of the millennial generation. I am in a similar situation with Gen X. I am right at the end of it. My little brother and sister are older millennials.
I think StA is calling Millennials pussies? Dude, My Millennial sons, either one, would kick your ass. The pussies are what we're seeing in colleges & universities today, the children of GenX.
Postby The Conservative » Fri May 19, 2017 7:56 am
Speaker to Animals wrote:Dude, stop. Gen X has nothing to do with this. Don't let them try to gas light you and drag you into their own mess.
This is 100% boomers and millennials.
Gen X and our Gen Z kids are the ones fighting back.
Gen X, those with the balls to do so are fighting back... "Gen Z" I'm not too sure, I ride the train every day, and I am starting to have a hard time figuring out which one is a man or a woman... either way, there are a lot of men that are afraid to be just that... men.
StA your generational analysis is off, by quite a bit. I think the problem starts where you have people born in 1977 as being Millennials. No Millennial is old enough to have seen any of the original releases or the original Star Wars movies. Millennials were born after Return of the Jedi. You are the only person I have ever seen make a claim that Millennials were born before 1983. 1977 is solidly Gen-X. It is most commonly accepted that Millennials were first born in the early to mid-80's (i.e. 1983ish).
Now, when it comes to parents. Most Millennials were born to Gen-X. As an older millennial I was born to Baby Boomer parents, but my parents were super late Baby Boomers, according to your generational chart you would actually consider them Gen-X. Not only were they late Baby Boomers, they also didn't start having kids until they were 28, and were 30 when they had me. While that isn't abnormal by today's standards, back then that was later than normal. Basically you had a decade of Gen-Xs having babies by the time my Baby Boomer parents had me.
The reason why generations are traditionally 20ish years is because that is about when the oldest of the youngest generation start having kids. The idea is that generation 1 are the parents to generation 2, and generation 2 are the parents to generation 3, and so on and so forth. On the edges yes you get some crossover, but this generational leap frog theory of yours goes far beyond anything reasonable or logical. Looks more like you are just trying to find a way to blame Baby Boomers, and to deflect any real or perceived blame from your generation.
