We've had in Joe Biden these last four years, a Silent generation president -- the really nice, polite, empathetic, procedural type of generation (as will likely be the kids born 2005 - ~…
For years (maybe even a couple decades) folks have asked -- well, some of them have -- "Where are the GenX leaders? Why aren't they running for office? When will they step up?"
So,…
Let us remember, or at least consider ...
Each generation is an ARCHETYPE (there are only four). Each generation has a specific type of childhood during a specific type of era, or societal mood;…
We are in Winter, culturally, as a nation.
It's a thing. It's generational in its origins. It's cyclical. It has to happen.
What comes after winter (cold, dark, difficult times, when pulling IN is the…
When tensions run high--and, boy, do they ever in the latter third of a Fourth Turning, which is where we're at: the Fourth Turning starting in 2008/9 and lasting until about 2032/3--it's not…
Bruh!
Each generational archetype, of which there are four and only four, has a different coming-of-age experience, and the coming-of-age experience is a significant part of defining each generation.
If one can let go of…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…