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post 1642073373 07-02-2021, 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted By Dogolog22⏩
What did you think the Misc would say lol? Like, really?

Anything generation/age related on the Misc that isn't sucking off delusional boomers and Gen-xer's is shot down immediately.

"wE wE'Re JuSt ToUGheR"

"WE DrANk FrOm THe HOsE aNd PlaYEd OuTSIdE"

Yeah, okay John Wayne...

The last hero generation was the Silent Gen. WW2 was something else.
Are you sure you don't mean the Greatest Generation [GI Generation]?



WWII was from 1939 to 1945. The Silent Generation would have been too young until near the very end. My grandparents were born in the teens and were children during the Great Depression prior to the war.
Originally Posted By DivineMasculine⏩
Just read Jim Rickards last two books.
Looks like one very recent and then two from 2016?

https://www.goodreads.com/author/sho...James_Rickards
Originally Posted By Adam16121⏩
I’ve noticed this trend for a while. Gen X seems to be alright with millennials and boomers somehow. I really do admire that. Most Gen X’ers I’ve known personally were pretty cool.
Maybe it's because we've never really been kissed up to [smaller consumer group]. Marketers didn't feel obligated to fluff up our collective ego.
Originally Posted By eod8989⏩
None of this really matters because every generation has it's pros and cons

Might as well not worry about things too much because it's technocracy and NWO time anyways
Not particularly worried about something so specific, just shooting the breeze.

Originally Posted By SicilianPower⏩
That’s what they were saying and predicting for a while, the last official data I saw showed Zoomers to be slightly more liberal than Millennials. Both in terms of voting and individual issues. I think that’s largely because there are a lot of Hispanic and Asian Zoomers in comparison to Millennials, and they vote overwhelmingly Left. If we were talking white Zoomers vs white Millennials then perhaps. But that was a very misleading claim that was being made years ago, that the next generation was going to be the most conservative since the Silent Gen, they are in fact the most liberal according to everything I have seen.
Interesting. Admit it isn't something I have really followed.
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everyone is buckbroken in cancel culture. why would anyone act like a hero?
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Originally Posted By katya422⏩
Not all wars are fought with conventional weapons.





I don't hate Millennials, but as a group I find them kind of hard to relate to.

I've read that Gen X was "the least parented generation" and that fits so far as I can tell. Growing up I don't recall children being the main focus of daily life. We weren't catered to.

- at mealtime there was one meal on offer and if you didn't like it that was too damn bad
- adults watched what they wanted on TV and listened to what they wanted on the radio; you could like it or lump it...kids got Sesame Street and Saturday morning cartoons
- if your parents were annoyed with you they would tell you to get out; as in go outside kid and entertain yourself
- if you lost at sports you just lost; no participation trophy
- walking to and from school was normal, but you might get a ride if the weather was bad
- by age 11 or 12 you were considered old enough to babysit/take care of younger children
- at 16 you were learning to drive and getting a job

A lot of kids parents got divorced and/or mom went to work and kids were expected to fend for themselves [latchkey kids].

Millennials as a group seem softer and less resilient.
I got all of this, but my parents are boomers and I'm the baby
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Sometimes I think a heavy solar flare frying the internet and every computer and smartphone on Earth would be a good soft cull on society.

Gen X would get by OK, we'd just have to remember what it was like to be a kid again (a good thing).

Millenials and Zoomers would be forced to deal with reality, and learn to formulate their own thoughts and opinions. Imagine achieving something and nobody else will ever know about it, or having an aesthetic meal, and they just have to eat it alone bc no camera.
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Originally Posted By mesobuild⏩
everyone isbuckbrokenin cancel culture. why would anyone act like a hero?
Okay, so finally gave in and googled this. Public sexual abuse of defiant black slaves? Que?
Originally Posted By hoop84⏩
I got all of this, but my parents are boomers and I'm the baby
My parents were boomers too.
Originally Posted By WrathOfPecan⏩
Sometimes I think a heavy solar flare frying the internet and every computer and smartphone on Earth would be a good soft cull on society.

Gen X would get by OK, we'd just have to remember what it was like to be a kid again (a good thing).

Millenials and Zoomers would be forced to deal with reality, and learn to formulate their own thoughts and opinions. Imagine achieving something and nobody else will ever know about it, or having an aesthetic meal, and they just have to eat it alone bc no camera.
I've wondered if it might be net positive.

Haven't been that sucked in by social media, but I can easily spend too much time online myself because one thing leads to another.

- watching a vid on framing a tiny house
- curious if metal studs would be an improvement
- land on a page touting ICF blocks over wood/metal studs
- end on a page where someone shared pics and experience of their ICF home

There went an hour, more or less.
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Am i hero? im 26 yo
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Originally Posted By hoop84⏩
I got all of this, but my parents are boomers and I'm the baby
Just saw the signature. Keep hanging on.

https://www.google.com/search?q=dr.+...client=gws-wiz

Karl Deisseroth is another Gen X kid who has been doing cool research into manipulating the brain to treat psychiatric problems.
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Stop ghosting me jerk sloot (ded fkn srs)

Whats my generation if im 26 yo
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Millenials are buncha ****s
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Originally Posted By GTraven⏩
Am i hero? im 26 yo
Originally Posted By GTraven⏩
Stop ghosting me jerk sloot (ded fkn srs)

Whats my generation if im 26 yo
On the cusp bb.

Boomers: 1946–1964
Gen X: 1965–1976
Millennials: 1977–1995
Gen Z: 1996–2015
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Originally Posted By katya422⏩
On the cusp bb.

Boomers: 1946–1964
Gen X: 1965–1976
Millennials: 1977–1995
Gen Z: 1996–2015
I am 1995 hero

Now i superman u hoe (ded fkn srs)
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Originally Posted By 4free⏩
are these photos cropped from your giant flowchart written on your bedroom wall with your own chit and blood OPie?
Nah, bedroom walls are a color I picked up at Ace hardware. It has the tiniest whisper of pink, but it changes with the light throughout the day and sometimes looks more cream or pale yellow.
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I was seeing how this works backward:

1866-1886 (High) = end of civil war, 14th amendment, US gets Alaska, Suez canal opens, 15th amendment, invention of the telegraph and telephone, electricity,

1886 - 1906 (Awakening) = women's suffrage (New Zealand), Einstein's theory of relativity

1906-1926 (Unraveling) = WW1, Russian Revolution, labor unrest

1926-1946 (Crisis) = Great depression, WW2, Holocaust
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Originally Posted By Sterilite⏩
This, black history book is different. This timeline looks like it was written by a white person.

OP, what does parkland / hospital stand for? Are they saying nurses are heroes?

Anyone who was doing social media vids when the media was on "APOCALYPSE DOOM" mode should be fired and lose their medical license (if applicable).
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Originally Posted By jamalfudge⏩
I've read this theory before. Recently. Millennials are equivalent to the flappers of the 1920s aka the last recent *worst* generation.Late zoomers and kids born today are apart of the next greatest generation.
If one considers the bold consisting mostly of woke anti-American marxists the next greatest generation..then sure.

Our increasingly changing demographics guarantees the squad will be running this country within 20 years.

Between legal/illegal/refugees and visa workers, we will be adding the population of NV in 2021. (3 million)
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Originally Posted By katya422⏩
I don't hate Millennials, but as a group I find them kind of hard to relate to.

I've read that Gen X was "the least parented generation" and that fits so far as I can tell. Growing up I don't recall children being the main focus of daily life. We weren't catered to.

- at mealtime there was one meal on offer and if you didn't like it that was too damn bad
- adults watched what they wanted on TV and listened to what they wanted on the radio; you could like it or lump it...kids got Sesame Street and Saturday morning cartoons
- if your parents were annoyed with you they would tell you to get out; as in go outside kid and entertain yourself
- if you lost at sports you just lost; no participation trophy
- walking to and from school was normal, but you might get a ride if the weather was bad
- by age 11 or 12 you were considered old enough to babysit/take care of younger children
- at 16 you were learning to drive and getting a job

A lot of kids parents got divorced and/or mom went to work and kids were expected to fend for themselves [latchkey kids].

Millennials as a group seem softer and less resilient.
I'm a millennial and literally all these things applied when I was growing up (born late 80's)
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Originally Posted By Shortfuze⏩
I was seeing how this works backward:

1866-1886 (High) = end of civil war, 14th amendment, US gets Alaska, Suez canal opens, 15th amendment, invention of the telegraph and telephone, electricity,

1886 - 1906 (Awakening) = women's suffrage (New Zealand), Einstein's theory of relativity

1906-1926 (Unraveling) = WW1, Russian Revolution, labor unrest

1926-1946 (Crisis) = Great depression, WW2, Holocaust
This was the video:



One of the goodreads reviews mentions the Civil War not fitting:
The Fourth Turning explains a theoretical approach to history - a cyclical system of societal high, awakening, unraveling and crisis. Each period has a corresponding stereotype: prophet, nomad, hero and artist. The time period for a cycle is the course of a generation, deemed a saeculum. Each of the four periods in a saeculum lasts between 17 to 29 years. The authors piece together historical events to fit their theory. The only abnormality (that they acknowledge) is the U.S. civil war. I did not agree with their classification of generations or stereotypes, their decisions about 'crisis' periods, or their proposed preparations to prevent total and lasting destruction.
And I wonder how the failure of recent generations to start families at a rate similar to the past could be throwing off any past rhythm.
About a quarter of older millennials say they decided to wait longer to have children because of the pandemic, according to a recent conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of CNBC Make It. The survey was made up of 1,000 U.S. adults ages 33 to 40.

Some are avoiding having children altogether. About 19% of older millennials say they have decided not to have a child or additional children at this time because of the pandemic, according to the Harris survey. Among those who find they want children less following the pandemic, the most common reason is that they don’t want to bring a child into the world right now, followed by uncertainty about the economy.

But many in this cohort of millennials already waited until their 30s to seriously start thinking about having children thanks in part to student loan debt and the Great Recession’s impact on the job market. Now, the pandemic is making it even more difficult for older millennials to start or grow their families.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/olde...uncertain.html

Bends my mind that Millennials are starting to turn 40.
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Originally Posted By katya422⏩
Watched a vid re:The Fourth Turning which outlined the book and how it applies to the present.

The book claims that history repeats on an 80 year cycle with each 20 year block labeled a Turning.



Here is how the current 80 year block is outlined:



And here are the roles of the four generations:



I can see Gen X as the Nomads and Gen Z as Artists.

But do you think that the Millennials are up for being Heroes?
Most early stage millennials can do it as we are a little different. Late stage are phucked. I can’t see too many ******* willingly fighting WW3
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Originally Posted By sg1976⏩
Most early stage millennials can do it as we are a little different. Late stage are phucked. I can’t see too many ******* willingly fighting WW3
Yeah, I really question lumping people born in 1984 (in some cases even earlier) with kids born in the early/mid 90s - 2008.
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Originally Posted By katya422⏩
Looks like one very recent and then two from 2016?

https://www.goodreads.com/author/sho...James_Rickards
Aftermath & The New Great Depression.


You have to click the “more James Rickards books” link to see all of them.

He is also coming out with a book with Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad/Poor Dad) called the Raven. This should also be a must read.

Rickards talks about he gave advice to hedge funds managers that have underground bunkers waiting for “the event” and how they should treat their bodyguards so they stay loyal. Rickards worked for the CIA and has a few degrees. He is a smart guy.
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Originally Posted By adamsz⏩
I'm a millennial and literally all these things applied when I was growing up (born late 80's)
I believe you. Your mileage may definitely vary dependent on your parents.
Originally Posted By Polaris⏩
Yeah, I really question lumping people born in 1984 (in some cases even earlier) with kids born in the early/mid 90s - 2008.
Some demographers use another name for that group on the cusp: Xennials.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...on/2369230002/

There is a big wiki on the theory in the book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straus...ational_theory

A few interesting snippets:
Strauss and Howe followed in 1993 with their second book 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?, which was published while Gen Xers were young adults. The book examines the generation born between 1961 and 1981, "Gen-Xers" (which they called "13ers", describing them as the thirteenth generation since the US became a nation). The book asserts that 13ers' location in history as under-protected children during the Consciousness Revolution explains their pragmatic attitude. They describe Gen Xers as growing up during a time when society was less focused on children and more focused on adults and their self-actualization.[32][33][31]
In 2000, the two authors published Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation. This work discussed the personality of the Millennial Generation, whose oldest members were described as the high school graduating class of the year 2000. In this 2000 book, Strauss and Howe asserted that Millennial teens and young adults were recasting the image of youth from "downbeat and alienated to upbeat and engaged". They credited increased parental attention and protection for these positive changes. They asserted Millennials are held to higher standards than adults apply to themselves and that they are a lot less vulgar and violent than the teen culture older people produce for them.They described them as less sexually charged and as ushering in a new sexual modesty, with an increasing belief that sex should be saved for marriage and a return to conservative family values.
That does seem to be a bit of a theme here. But also sloots gonna sloot.

Gen X:
Nomad(Reactive) generations enter childhood during an Awakening, a time of social ideals and spiritual agendas, when young adults are passionately attacking the established institutional order. Nomads grow up as under-protected children during this Awakening, come of age as alienated, post-Awakening young adults, become pragmatic midlife leaders during a Crisis, and age into resilient post-Crisis elders.
Millennials:
Hero(Civic) generations enter childhood during an Unraveling, a time of individual pragmatism, self-reliance, and laissez-faire. Heroes grow up as increasingly protected post-Awakening children, come of age as team-oriented young optimists during a Crisis, emerge as energetic, overly-confident midlifers, and age into politically powerful elders attacked by another Awakening.
Zoomers:
Artist(Adaptive) generations enter childhood during a Crisis, a time when great dangers cut down social and political complexity in favor of public consensus, aggressive institutions, and an ethic of personal sacrifice. Artists grow up overprotected by adults preoccupied with the Crisis, come of age as the socialized and conformist young adults of a post-Crisis world, break out as process-oriented midlife leaders during an Awakening, and age into thoughtful post-Awakening elders
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Originally Posted By katya422⏩
Maybe it's because we've never really been kissed up to [smaller consumer group]. Marketers didn't feel obligated to fluff up our collective ego.
I think you're forgetting all the products that marketed themselves as "Xtreme" or tried to highlight an X in their names back in the late 80s/early 90s...you know, because we were Generation "X"

But I think the reason it might have been hard to market to our generation was because we weren't homogenized as much as previous generations. If you were a Boomer, your entertainment choices were limited. You were probably watching Leave it to Beaver and all the other sitcoms that were similar. You were probably listening to that Beatles/Stones rock stuff. It would have been easy to market to them because they were all into the same thing.

But how do you market to a generation when one segment is into that 70s punk, while another listens to 80s hair metal and grows their hair out, while yet another listened to Top 40. Cable TV gave our generation variety on the screen. we were able to segment and differentiate ourselves from one another in ways previous generations didn't. So if you're an advertiser, where do you spend your money in the 80s and 90s? Which segment of Xers do you target? What kind of ads do you run? It must have been a headache for ad agencies back then, but at the same time, we were practice for the more splintered audiences of today.
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Originally Posted By DivineMasculine⏩
Aftermath & The New Great Depression.


You have to click the “more James Rickards books” link to see all of them.

He is also coming out with a book with Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad/Poor Dad) called the Raven. This should also be a must read.

Rickards talks about he gave advice to hedge funds managers that have underground bunkers waiting for “the event” and how they should treat their bodyguards so they stay loyal. Rickards worked for the CIA and has a few degrees. He is a smart guy.
Seems like an interesting guy. Very mixed reviews on the books.

He promotes gold as the best thing to invest in to hedge against a broken fiat currency system. I can see metals being a partial solution, but I don't think gold is as highly valued as it once was. When gold became the standard tool for storing wealth clean water and arable land were in much higher supply relative to population and fossil fuels hadn't even entered the arena.
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I think you're forgetting all the products that marketed themselves as "Xtreme" or tried to highlight an X in their names back in the late 80s/early 90s...you know, because we were Generation "X"

But I think the reason it might have been hard to market to our generation was because we weren't homogenized as much as previous generations. If you were a Boomer, your entertainment choices were limited. You were probably watching Leave it to Beaver and all the other sitcoms that were similar. You were probably listening to that Beatles/Stones rock stuff. It would have been easy to market to them because they were all into the same thing.

But how do you market to a generation when one segment is into that 70s punk, while another listens to 80s hair metal and grows their hair out, while yet another listened to Top 40. Cable TV gave our generation variety on the screen. we were able to segment and differentiate ourselves from one another in ways previous generations didn't. So if you're an advertiser, where do you spend your money in the 80s and 90s? Which segment of Xers do you target? What kind of ads do you run? It must have been a headache for ad agencies back then, but at the same time, we were practice for the more splintered audiences of today.
Maybe I'm lame or oblivious. I never associated the Xtreme stuff from marketing as being about Gen X. I thought it was more rooted in things like the X Games.

I actually think you could argue that Gen X was the last cohesive generation though entertainment did begin to splinter in our teens/twenties.

When I was in high school I would have said that we were quite conformist and cliqueish. There did seem to be a bigger variety of cliques- jocks, stoners, metal heads, ropers, preps, etc.

In an interview Heather Heying was talking about how when we were young there was more openness around social roles. If you were a woman who liked sports, or math, or any less typically feminine things that was okay. You didn't have to identify as masculine to prefer typically masculine interests.

And race has always been a factor of some kind because tribalism/group dynamics, but I think there was less of this overgeneralized labeling where every negative stereotype is somehow glommed on to an entire group. It seemed to be generally accepted that there were some less desirable/trashier people in each race and there were labels for those economic/cultural groups.

Now everything seems to be portrayed as starkly black and white. Anyone who is white is like this, anyone who is poor is like that, and anyone who doesn't vote the same doesn't just have a different opinion/different life experience than you, they are stupid, evil, dangerous, etc.
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Originally Posted By katya422⏩
I've read that Gen X was "the least parented generation" and that fits so far as I can tell. Growing up I don't recall children being the main focus of daily life. We weren't catered to.

- at mealtime there was one meal on offer and if you didn't like it that was too damn bad
- adults watched what they wanted on TV and listened to what they wanted on the radio; you could like it or lump it...kids got Sesame Street and Saturday morning cartoons
- if your parents were annoyed with you they would tell you to get out; as in go outside kid and entertain yourself
- if you lost at sports you just lost; no participation trophy
- walking to and from school was normal, but you might get a ride if the weather was bad
- by age 11 or 12 you were considered old enough to babysit/take care of younger children
- at 16 you were learning to drive and getting a job

A lot of kids parents got divorced and/or mom went to work and kids were expected to fend for themselves [latchkey kids].

Millennials as a group seem softer and less resilient.
Pretty much the same for Millennials, IMO and IME.

I think there is only a radical difference with Gen Z.


Though I'm skeptical if they are more resilient, I think the older generations are better at emotional repression and suppression (unless that's what you meant by resilient? My definition is to go through hardship and come out with your integrity and humanity intact) . Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, Domestic violence, etc, were/are common too amongst older generations.

Gen Z culture and 'Woke', IMO is partially an overcorrection.
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Originally Posted By BLOATMOGGER⏩
For all the bad things millennials face, we're not in a crisis.

Millennials got the short end of the stick, but our dissatisfaction is mostly cultural and spiritual, not economic.

In fact, I would argue the 60s-70s were more of a crisis than we ever faced.

Stagflation, complete change of cultural norms (fed by feminism and birth control), Vietnam, drug culture.

The Middle East wars were bad but 60,000 Americans died in Vietnam.

The internet was a big change but not as big as women in the workforce and the popularity of casual sex brought on by birth control.

The 2010s have been bad financially but the 70's has the oil crises and stagflation.
Not to mention the fact that slavery ended and Christ was crucified in 1968
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Originally Posted By katya422⏩
When I was in high school I would have said that we were quite conformist and cliqueish. There did seem to be a bigger variety of cliques- jocks, stoners, metal heads, ropers, preps, etc.
I always found it funny how mainstream the Red Hot Chili Peppers became toward the end of the 90s and after 2000 because where i went to high school, they were associated with the skater kids. When I hear their more recent stuff, I find myself thinking about seeing RHCP stickers on their backpacks back in the day.
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Though I'm skeptical if they are more resilient, I think the older generations are better at emotional repression and suppression (unless that's what you meant by resilient? My definition is to go through hardship and come out with your integrity and humanity intact)
I know it's relative, but the Boomers were the ones who went out burning draft cards because they didn't want to go to war like previous generations. The Boomers actually took time out of their lives to go to airports and spit on returning vets because they were butthurt. Look up the 1968 Democratic convention and see what the Boomers were up to.

I think the reason Millennials chit on them is because they see themselves in the Boomer generation. The boomers had everything handed to them, and they were still discontent. Millennials want to fight for some social justice, but they don't have a unifying cause and they don't have the drive to stick with it like the boomers did. And also, they see what the Boomers have become in their later years and it disturbs them. Instead of changing the world and making it a better place like they promised as young adults, the Boomers destroyed it and made this world a worse place when they grew up and took power. Just think Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump were all Boomer presidents. The anti war generation let terrorism fester and dragged this country through endless war. They turned our economy into a casino and bankrupted society. While they have reason to hate the Boomers for that, I'm sure subconsciously, Millennials look at Boomers as their future...that when they take power, they're going to end up making the world an even worse place like the boomers did.
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