Candidate Y

Candidate Y

The confusion among the lovable Gen X bug men over at the Z Blog as to Mayor Pete Buttigieg's generation is typical of blind men groping the tame elephant that is Gen Y. Pete Buttigieg is the millennial candidate in every way. Most likely his support came from his age…
February 13, 202010 Comments
Fumes and Leftovers

Fumes and Leftovers

Evidently our little project to reclaim Generation Y from the Madison Avenue Boomer memory hole is gaining some traction in the wild. Millennials do not remember the pre-internet, pre-9/11 world. By and large, they celebrate the cultural apocalypse of Clown World as the first generation to be fully indoctrinated at…
January 22, 202013 Comments
Zooming out of the Gate

Zooming out of the Gate

Evidence continues to pour in supporting theories that a major reaction against the Clown World Order is brewing among Generation Z. Consider this chart prepared by Audacious Epigone. Look closely at the generational trends in attitudes toward pornography. At first, you may be inclined to lament that more Zoomers want…
December 18, 201922 Comments
Strauss-Howe Revisited

Strauss-Howe Revisited

Owing to the sizable number of new readers who probably aren't up to speed on the updated generational theory popularized on this blog, I thought this post would make a helpful refresher. If you frequent social media and dissident blogs, it's hard to escape the phenomenon of people getting woke…
November 13, 201910 Comments
Marketing Millennials

Marketing Millennials

A comment by author JD Cowan on yesterday's viral post demonstrates the deliberate memory holing of Generation Y in this article from 2001. Here at the turn of the real millennium, trend forecasters and futurists are pondering new ways of cross-marketing to all of America's biggest consumer groups. First there was the…
October 29, 201920 Comments
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Hope for Gen Y

A commenter on my recent review of definitive Gen Y high school movie Clueless writes: How tied to is gen y. I mean, I've experienced and seen a lot of failure in my life and others. Is it a trait? By what means can it be overcome if it is? I…
July 26, 201941 Comments
Clueless by Design

Clueless by Design

My dual review of Heathers and Mean Girls elicited multiple requests for me to give my take on Clueless. I'd somehow managed to avoid seeing Clueless all these years. But pleasing my readers is job one, so last night I watched the movie for the first time. Now, I pointed out before how…
July 25, 201934 Comments
Quintessential Boomerism

Quintessential Boomerism

Honestly, I didn't think people who still thought this way were real, but a recent brush with pure quill Boomerism on Twitter opened my eyes to the sobering truth that some people really are this out of touch. Here are expanded versions of both graphs: Dear Baby Boomers, Millennials may…
March 28, 201934 Comments
Generational Astrology

Generational Astrology

If you frequent social media and dissident blogs, it's hard to escape the phenomenon of people getting woke to generational differences. Much is made of Strauss-Howe generational theory. Some claim they can predict where the country's heading based on the age of the people in charge cross-referenced with the general…
July 27, 201847 Comments
Lost Generations

Lost Generations

Identity politics has increasingly become a hot-button issue. The debate typically centers around matters of ethnicity or religion, but an often overlooked yet just as important factor in setting a person's self-concept is generational identification. Inter-generational conflict has become so ingrained in contemporary culture that it's hard to imagine a…
November 17, 201728 Comments