Millennials...Really? ( Archived) (5)

I want to say something, I'm getting tired of hearing the term Millennial. From what I've read, generational identities are wrong. There is an article in The Washington Post from 2015. " Your Generational Identity Is A Lie". Please feel free to read it for yourselves. In the article, the reporter Interviewed a source from the US Census Bureau.
The source said that generational labels were made up. It is not standard practice for them to recognize specific groups as generations. There has only been one group to ever be recognized as a generation. The Baby Boomers, that's it. (1946-1964) If you were not born between these years, you are not apart of any generation.

I looked into this a little bit further. I found that different organizations draw the line on where generations begin and where they end. You believe that? The people who believe in these labels can't agree on who is who. So, why don't stop all the labeling, and just say people exist. Let's not pay any attention to these arbitrary things.

Baby boomers are defined by post-war prosperity and everyone's a winner baby. They're defined by predictable success, too big to fail and insolvency. To have been born and raised in the garden they built post-war - and the subsequent sale of the garden - does define you because so much wealth was transferred to a generation from civilisation itself. For all the generations after it was up to your individual parents to leave you a huge inheritance, it was no guarantee that your parents would bequeath you a better life. Millennial does not mean you'll die richer than you were born because you were born.

I would argue that baby boomers are the last properly definable generation before society fragmented. The greatest generation were defined by war, the silent and the baby boomers defined by the spoils thereof.

All of our experiences after this time have been individual to a degree unknown in human history... at least until corona which is like a blast from the past. Suddenly society needs to be a soldiering down to earth bunch whose main focus of attention is the common good.

Looks like Mother Nature might be orchestrating a baby boomer cull.