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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Generational cohorts are all just made up nonsense. It just exists to distract the working class from what we have in common with each other and what separates us from the working class. I, a millennial, have much more in common with a working class baby boomer, than I do with a rich and powerful millennial.

Stop encouraging these artificial divides. Build solidarity across the working class of all ages. And stop playing into the media’s narratives.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Preach. So tired of this bullshit "generation warfare".

[–] spidermanchild 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think you're conflating two different things. There are a variety of social factors that affect age cohorts differently, and a lot of that comes down to the experience during formative years. We are a product of our environment in many ways, and it's not nonsense to study and opine on these shared experiences and how they shape us. Class solidarity is an entirely different subject. You likely do have more in common with your social class across generations, but that doesn't mean you don't have anything in common with wealthy millennials. I wouldn't let lazy journalism own the concept of generations itself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The lived experience of people differs as much, or more, within age cohorts, as it does between age cohorts. They are lazy and hasty generalisations, with very little benefit outside of garbage op-eds and zombie statistics.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you often get your personal beliefs from garbage op-eds?

If you would like to learn about generational cohorts from a higher quality source, I recommend The Fourth Turning, a rather prophetic book on generations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, great, let’s swap garbage op-ed’s for garbage airport pop-science books. Why not recommend Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, next? Or maybe Rich Dad, Poor Dad?

Some lovely reviews about The Fourth Turning:

many academic historians dismiss the book as about as scientific as astrology

cyclical theories tend to end up in the Sargasso Sea of pseudoscience, circling endlessly (what else?). *The Fourth Turning is no exception.

their predictions about the American future turn out to be as vague as those of fortune cookies

as woolly as a newspaper horoscope

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I haven't read those books, so I don't have an opinion on them. You haven't read The Fourth Turning, so maybe you shouldn't be so set on your opinion of the book.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I’ll just wait for the If Books Could Kill episode, I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yep, it's similar to Astrology where certain psychological characteristics are attributed to the signs of the zodiac.