Generation Y has a lot in common with the generation of the Roaring Twenties (wasn’t that called The Lost Generation?). The children of Generation Y will backlash against the laziness of their parents and build the foundation for a stronger America (or so I assume).
The generation born during and immediately after the great depression was the generation that kicked off “the beginning of the end,” or the introduction into a full blown pace of consumerist culture in capitalism. Half of this generation became the noble working class, the other half, the petty/bourgeois. These two classes produced the next generation of opposing classes (Rockefellers go to Yale, Jones get shit jobs), and this generation was exposed to the climax of advertisement/consumer culture. This is my generation, which is unique because it was born into a turbulent period where the effects of the disaster of capitalism were becomming fully apparant. My generation, consequently, is composed of the “last chance” to stop this disaster, while the bourgeois of my generation is of course expendible, just as the “Rockefellers” before them. I say “last chance” because generation Y, or Colinsigns generation, was born oblivious to the problem since they were produced inside the problem, rather than at its beginning or near its end. They cannot notice the changes since they were not witness to them. They are, in a sense, “lab rats” completely devoid of any potential to do anything but become frantic consumers. Generation Y will act as a warning signal, a red flag, a culture that is so completely screwed up that the following generation would have to be clinically retarded to not notice. This is where I invest. The children of generation Y are the “last dance,” and if my generation does not act as the teachers to this new generation, we will face our impending doom in less then eighty years.
So you have my fathers, who came out of the depression and started the explosion of capitalism…my generation, who lived in a transmigrational period and got to witness the “growth of the cancer” at its alarming pace, and finally Colinsigns generation, which are the effects of the cancer.
W began it.
X experienced and watched it unfold.
Y is it, and is oblivious.
Z will save it, hopefully, if X can teach it in time.
If this doesn’t work, well, good riddens planet earth.
What a lot of educated non-sense. Thank God you are unstable detrop.
My generation is more than aware of the decadence and valuelessness within which it is living. We are dealing as best we can within the chaos of society and within the lifestyle we are living.
I am part of the problem - should also be tattooed on your brain. Dummy! You spoout out some pseudo marxists rhetoric and that’s you convinced aye!
The generation I am part of are dealing with what I term ‘the shadow’ a lot of dark shit that either you generation didn’t have to cope with or didn’t actually experience. So we have to deal with that…and the generation we build will perhaps be stronger for it…more at ease with the maltifarious patterns of human nature, human love and human evil.
The Future is bright the future is lighting up the dark and taming it!
You make a good case, but I still think the Lost Generation has more in common with Generation Y than with the Beat & Silent Generations. I’ve listed some reasons for this in that case study thread of mine you’ve recently involved yourself into.
Having said that, I still think you’ve made an interesting case as that time period influenced works like 1984 and Brave New World… and to a lesser degree, Farenheit 451.
[I think Colin and Detrop are are both critical and dissatisifed. So similar and so different, all at the same time.]
Stronger? More potency? More extreme?
Sometimes moderation is the ultimate strength, and yet, extremes see moderation is a form of weak mildness. Just a thought.
So says, so says.
History, you’ve found many partners.
History, you’ve made love and war.
History, you’ve reproduced yourself, and given birth to the future.
I believe I should say, for the record, it doesn’t really matter what generation you are born in, for in all reality, we will always believe that we are the middle generation, like each, it seems we are born in the wrong time.
