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Not Talking About My Generation
Let us focus on the labeling and racking and stacking of generational cohort labels against each other, and how stupid that is.
So the Boomers are wagging fingers on Fox News at the Gen Xers, who are Facebooking about how they could care less about the Millennials, who are Tweeting and meme’ing the Zoomers, who are mocking all of them on TikTok. Which means, of course, this is a good trench in which to fight out the culture wars, or something.
Oh. Good. Hell. God, am I sick of this nonsense.
Let us set aside the highly questionable outrage du jour of “cancel culture” that others have been and probably will be debating for the foreseeable future. Let us focus on the labeling, racking and stacking of generational cohort labels against each other.
Forgive me for shallow analysis here but it is made-up stupidity and to make it into cultural battle lines, even more pointless.
“A lot of demographers will tell you that we like to work with cohorts…
