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The fallacy of the Baby Boom

GenerationsJuly 14, 2024844Views 0Likes 0Comments

There is a mega-echo-chamber blerg of info about Boomer and Xer dates, and it's this: Boomers are born 1946-1964 because, well, there were lots of babies after WWII and then there was this big last-hurrah of baby-making in 1961-1964. Alas, Census Bureau staff don't decide or make generations: life conditions and experiences do. See, the REASON the…

Natural patterns

GenerationsJuly 9, 2024713Views 0Likes 0Comments

Some folk be getting all bent outta shape with talk of cyclical patterns and eras based on generations. It feels too woo-woo, too much like astrology, too much like someone tellin' 'em what they can and can't do based on something over which they have no control: this apparently continuous (in the US and more…

This wonderful world

SynchronicitiesJuly 3, 2024805Views 0Likes 0Comments

In the way things work in this wonderful world, I was helping my mom yesterday get some items she wanted to donate to Goodwill and some items she was taking to the landfill staged to be loaded in her car when she was ready to go on these errands later that day. I always (when I…

Random-ish bubbles

SynchronicitiesJune 17, 2024816Views 0Likes 0Comments

Well, that was random ... ish. I'm sitting here, this exact minute, typing up some labels for a box of bubblewrap our Mad Tea Party camp needs for packing some of our teacups and saucers when we go to festivals such as Summerisle ... When I look up and see a bunch of large bubbles float down…

Why, why, why? (pounds fists, gnashes teeth)

Generations, Little BitsJune 11, 2024742Views 0Likes 0Comments

I find this phenomenon so unnecessary and illogical. I've been watching the TV series #Succession. In the opening sequence for each show, images of the four Roy children are shown as looking to be, at most, about 6-7 years apart in age. Yet in the show, they clearly are not 6-7 years apart. Connor, who has a…

The Club That Isn’t a Club, Club.

GenerationsJune 8, 2024665Views 0Likes 0Comments

Reposting this here for my own memory as well. Something I just wrote in response to someone's comment (on a FB group for Gen X) about the 1961-1964 cohort (the early-wave Xers, not Boomers) and how we should start a club. I wrote: We're Xers, so we should start The Club That Isn't a Club, Club. 🙂 And,…

Wholesale neglect

Cultcha, GenerationsJune 4, 2024717Views 0Likes 0Comments

When we speak of the wholesale societal neglect GenX children experienced, it's important to understand it was ... well, wholesale ... full, complete, society-wide and institutional. From a WaPo article about children now riding to school in "bike buses" (somewhat organized groups that ride en masse along a specific route), I found this statement so telling: "If…

Cultcha, GenerationsJune 1, 2024663Views 0Likes 0Comments

I'm not nearly hip enough to even recognize a fraction of these music types, but take a look at what Kanwar Ranvir Singh of the UK created about GenX and their music contributions. The Nomad archetype, today's Gen Xers, is an "away from the center," splintered, tribe-like generation that contributes much to culture by way…

Generations, gender & fashion, the short version

Cultcha, GenerationsMay 27, 2024680Views 0Likes 0Comments

Modern societies have an underlying trend that goes in about 20-year cycles regarding gender distinctions in young adulthood, particularly noted in dress. Hints of the coming shift are seen as a new generation comes of age, which is exactly what is happening with the born-2006-and-after generation no one is paying attention to. (They are the…

Forced to use whatever means

Cultcha, GenerationsMay 26, 2024729Views 0Likes 0Comments

I find history so much more interesting when generational archetypes are overlayed on top. I was just reading an article about Caleb Carr's death. (I loved "The Alienist" and "Killing Time.") The article mentioned, among other things, one of his books in which he displayed deep knowledge of the dark side of the life of the…

Meet me for a drink?

Generations, Things I PonderMay 23, 2024829Views 0Likes 0Comments

Yesterday, while out erranding or whatever, I passed a Starbucks and had a flash vision of future possibilities; it's this: I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if in the next 5-8 years select (to start) Starbucks started staying open much later (almost like a bar), and were redesigned for a more chill/hangout/gather place serving the…

Sense of space

Little BitsMay 1, 2024550Views 0Likes 0Comments

Yep, that’s pretty much how I park. Often. The front of my car always seems so very far away. I do, when noticing how off I may have parked, re-park and get more nestled in to my selected spot, but, yeah, that's pretty much how I often park.