So what's next? Here's a list of generations from early 20th century to the present, but one has to ask what's next? I thought this might make for an interesting discussion.
Follow this PDF link, it's packed full of an in depth view of what each generation had to offer to the nation.
What I found extremely interesting was the differences in responsibilities of our generation to that of the latest, the entitlement gen, and the way Marxist ideals are creeping into the culture.
There are 11 pages easy to read, take a look and see what you think. For me, it was a total eyeopener

http://www.wmfc.org/uploads/GenerationalDifferencesChart.pdf

G.I. Generation 1901 -
1924 Experienced WWII in adulthood Greatest Generation
Silent Generation 1925 -
1945
Experienced WWII in childhood, Civil Rights Movement

Baby Boomers Boom Generation /
Hippie
1946 -
1964
Space Exploration, First Modern "counterculture"

Baby Busters 1965 - 1980 Experienced Vietnam War/Cold War
Generation X MTV Generation /
Boomerang Generation

20th century
Generation Y Echo Boom

21st century
Generation Z New Silent

Quote from: Solar on May 26, 2016, 08:01:18 AM
So what's next? Here's a list of generations from early 20th century to the present, but one has to ask what's next? I thought this might make for an interesting discussion.
Follow this PDF link, it's packed full of an in depth view of what each generation had to offer to the nation.
What I found extremely interesting was the differences in responsibilities of our generation to that of the latest, the entitlement gen, and the way Marxist ideals are creeping into the culture.
There are 11 pages easy to read, take a look and see what you think. For me, it was a total eyeopener

http://www.wmfc.org/uploads/GenerationalDifferencesChart.pdf

G.I. Generation 1901 -
1924 Experienced WWII in adulthood Greatest Generation
Silent Generation 1925 -
1945
Experienced WWII in childhood, Civil Rights Movement

Baby Boomers Boom Generation /
Hippie
1946 -
1964
Space Exploration, First Modern "counterculture"

Baby Busters 1965 - 1980 Experienced Vietnam War/Cold War
Generation X MTV Generation /
Boomerang Generation

20th century
Generation Y Echo Boom

21st century
Generation Z New Silent

Damned, I just call them all spoiled brats from 1930 on.   

QuoteBaby Boomers Boom Generation /
Hippie
1946 -
1964
Space Exploration, First Modern "counterculture"

Baby Busters 1965 - 1980 Experienced Vietnam War/Cold War
Generation X MTV Generation /
Boomerang Generation
 

The line in red belongs in the entry just above it (also quoted). I was there. Nobody born in 1964 was fighting in that war. They may have been home in their one-piece jammies watching Captain Kangaroo, but they were not on my ship or any base I visited.

Quote from: quiller on May 27, 2016, 04:10:45 AM


The line in red belongs in the entry just above it (also quoted). I was there. Nobody born in 1964 was fighting in that war. They may have been home in their one-piece jammies watching Captain Kangaroo, but they were not on my ship or any base I visited.

Yeah, I'd never even heard of Baby Busters before. Maybe they got tired of hearing Gen Xer's.

Quote from: Solar on May 27, 2016, 06:30:55 AM
Yeah, I'd never even heard of Baby Busters before. Maybe they got tired of hearing Gen Xer's.

Generation Zed (as the Aussies and others might pronounce it) leads inevitably to even more lame arbitrary subdivisions which media types use to categorize and manipulate readers, through a false sense of identity based on happenstance, the coincidence of birth-years and not the achievements within say a given decade or even generation.

(*ritual spit*) Orville Wright died in 1948, the same year Neil Armstrong was in his teens. From Kitty Hawk to one giant leap for mankind was a relative eyeblink in American history.

My point is, so much can happen so soon that these "generation" labels are worse than arbitrary, they're outright misleading.

Quote from: quiller on May 27, 2016, 06:50:20 AM
Generation Zed (as the Aussies and others might pronounce it) leads inevitably to even more lame arbitrary subdivisions which media types use to categorize and manipulate readers, through a false sense of identity based on happenstance, the coincidence of birth-years and not the achievements within say a given decade or even generation.

(*ritual spit*) Orville Wright died in 1948, the same year Neil Armstrong was in his teens. From Kitty Hawk to one giant leap for mankind was a relative eyeblink in American history.

My point is, so much can happen so soon that these "generation" labels are worse than arbitrary, they're outright misleading.

They are merely milestones of identity. Personally, I'd love to see each one identified for it's quirks.
But take a look at the actual PDF and scroll down to "Work Ethic
and "Values", this is rather telling where the latest gen is concerned.
Using the others as a predictor, the next gen should simply stay in diapers.....

Quote from: Solar on May 27, 2016, 07:41:54 AM
They are merely milestones of identity. Personally, I'd love to see each one identified for it's quirks.
But take a look at the actual PDF and scroll down to "Work Ethic
and "Values", this is rather telling where the latest gen is concerned.
Using the others as a predictor, the next gen should simply stay in diapers.....

You have violated my safe zone with your slur against ... no, your vile and baseless .... I mean, your soul-shredding, life-altering ....

BWAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

Quote from: quiller on May 28, 2016, 12:25:45 AM
You have violated my safe zone with your slur against ... no, your vile and baseless .... I mean, your soul-shredding, life-altering ....

BWAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

That about sums it up...

Quote from: Solar on May 28, 2016, 06:21:39 AM
That about sums it up...

Wonder what they'd say to this....

"Cupcake, I know it grieves you that honest people have to work for their existence and not leech off everyone else, as do you communists, Democrats and other lowlife parasites. We are the half of America which works, which you thieving worthless filth love to tax, rather than work yourselves. You deserve a bullet to the head but I will grudgingly accept your walking into traffic, instead, to atone for your utter worthlessness. Now go away before I break off a chair leg and see how far up your ass I can ram it."

Quote from: quiller on May 29, 2016, 03:11:55 AM
Wonder what they'd say to this....

"Cupcake, I know it grieves you that honest people have to work for their existence and not leech off everyone else, as do you communists, Democrats and other lowlife parasites. We are the half of America which works, which you thieving worthless filth love to tax, rather than work yourselves. You deserve a bullet to the head but I will grudgingly accept your walking into traffic, instead, to atone for your utter worthlessness. Now go away before I break off a chair leg and see how far up your ass I can ram it."

I see you have had some coffee this A.M. and a bit of WT is coming out.   

Quote from: quiller on May 29, 2016, 03:11:55 AM
Wonder what they'd say to this....

"Cupcake, I know it grieves you that honest people have to work for their existence and not leech off everyone else, as do you communists, Democrats and other lowlife parasites. We are the half of America which works, which you thieving worthless filth love to tax, rather than work yourselves. You deserve a bullet to the head but I will grudgingly accept your walking into traffic, instead, to atone for your utter worthlessness. Now go away before I break off a chair leg and see how far up your ass I can ram it."

Based on all the on campus "Safe Spaces', I'd say you're looking at a Woodstock style safe space about to be created and staffed by thousands of wannabe shrinks.
These snowflakes should never have to face the harsh realities of life, they want a deserve the Sesame Street life their parents coddled them with.
You're just another one of the bullies that hang outside the campus spewing hate in the world, creating the illusion that the world is a dangerous place.

Now give the little hippy back his blanky and place him back in his 'safe space' you big bad rightwinger!

Quote from: Solar on May 29, 2016, 07:06:08 AM

You're just another one of the bullies that hang outside the campus spewing hate in the world, creating the illusion that the world is a dangerous place.

Any questions?

Quote from: walkstall on May 29, 2016, 05:34:48 AM

I see you have had some coffee this A.M. and a bit of WT is coming out.   

Yeah, right.

Quote from: quiller on May 30, 2016, 12:46:07 AM


Any questions?

That's exactly how they view ideologies that counter their snowflake world.