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I agree that we should accept our rebels-in-the making: rage against the machine little spirits!! and I can see the cyclical-ness is real.
I just also think each generation is ever responsible for the *conditioning* of the next. Think of Nurture Shock and the work of Ostrov and Sheibe where the findings by a landslide demonstrated that educational TV watching regularly by preschoolers yielded relationally aggressive behaviors in most of the children. The edu tv programming was made with the exact opposite intent of course, which was/is kindness and peaceful and much by and for the peaceful generation in the entertainment industry… and the outcome is zillions of children being conditioned by the mutli zillion hour viewing on aggressive ways to handle conflict. Of course it is explained that the children don’t understand the nuances at the end of the shows on resolution, but rather the main length of the shows building the conflict meticulously. So the little children learn how to build a conflict, cause devisive and mean spirited upset, and copy quoted insults masterfully and perfectly from their senior generation of self defined educators.
Wow, this is such an interesting post! thank you. Your blog has real value!
Gen X here, but never felt like I understood the fuss. Breakfast Club? Not my life. Reality Bites? Not my life, either. Cocaine? Never touched it. Two glasses of wine is my indulgence (and PBS Masterpiece).
I’ve been out of step with my own generation. My kids may as well join me!
Have you read about the Debt Ressitor’s Operation Manual and the Occupy Debt Movement? Political action for Gen Y is the management of personal finances.
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/18/occupys_new_ground_debt_resistance/
btw, I think this is one of the best ideas from the protest left in a long time.
The idea that Gen Y’s political action is managing personal finance is so so interesting to me. I get it right away, without even clicking the article. But it’s a great link. And a great way of thinking about protest.
Thanks.
Penelope
My younger sis and her hub. just on the edge of Gen X/Y. They are out of debt and pointedly budget NOT to accrue more. She took ten years to finish a degree, but the company paid for it. He is self taught in IT.
Friends of ours–also on the edge between X and Y–cashed out their 401K to buy out the mortgage.
Based just on those and my subjective experience, I feel more akin to my pre-Depression and Depression-era grandparents than Boomers or Xers.
I wonder. I’m a pretty typical X and so are my adult friends, and our homeschooled kids seem to attack us from the left, not the right. We are The Man. Perhaps this will change as they age?
My parents are quite old, so if I were following a parent lead cycle I would be generation x, while my peers are all generation Y. So socializing is probably a huge factor to this cycle.
I don’t quite buy it. I don’t believe that rebellion against one’s parents is either a natural or necessary part of life. I think it’s more likely indicative of a failure in parenting or education or both.
The majority of inter-generational angst comes from the age segregation of the forced school system. Schooled kids start out just not knowing how to relate to or interact with adults. The justification for that inability develops as there being something wrong with adults. Then adolescent excesses of emotion get channeled into the worn groove of intergenerational resentment and kids hate their parents. Parents who are needlessly rigid or don’t understand or find ways to communicate with their children fit easily into the role that has been constructed for them.
I, for one, never rebelled against my parents. I am Gen X and my parents are both from the Greatest/Silent/Artist/Beatnik generation (born 1939). When I was fifteen, I was a young punk rocker, full of angst and anger against the status quo. I got my ears pierced, sported a bright orange mohawk, refused to go to school anymore, hitchhiked across states, and did other things I shouldn’t mention.
My mother’s response was to find a better place for me to go to school (college, actually), buy me humorous and sporty earrings (such as antique rabies tags) at yard sales, discuss hair color choices with me, send me bus fare, etc. My mother was my best friend through thick and thin, and although I didn’t always listen to her (I continued hitchhiking, because it was fun and cheap) and continued to dislike the status quo in the Reagan Years, I never rebelled against her or my father.
This lack of confusion about the real sources of my alienation from society helped me address those problems and find a life that suits me (currently, stay-at-home homeschooling dad in Boston). I never wasted time imagining that alienation was something my parents had caused me or that they were my enemies. I hope and expect my children will have the same experience.
I’m Generation Jones, so there! :)
I really liked the last link in this post.
Love this! Hipsters are a great example of Gen Y being conservative too. They want to do all of the cool stuff hippies did but they want to do them after they take a shower and put on overpriced shoes to show how much they don’t care.
Hipsters are a good example of how Gen Y has embraced bourgeois values.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/opinion/sunday/the-entrepreneurial-generation.html?pagewanted=all
YES!!! I’ve been waiting for you to write about this generational theory.
It’s been my observation that the Millennials are the conformist generation, not whatever generation our kids will be. Millennials are way more tribal than Gen Xers- I seriously don’t think my youngest brother is able to make up his own mind for himself without first checking the consensus of the crowd via Facebook/Twitter/etc.
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