Douglas Coupland on Generation X at 30: ‘Generational Trashing Is Eternal’
This feeling of alienation between old and young is indicative of a changed identity resulting from cultural shifts — something that apparently has always sparked generational conflict. Each new generation is indeed different from the previous one.
Paul Verhaeghe • What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
I always feel very curmudgeonly saying this, but I think that mid-to-late Millennials and very young Gen Xers are this weird straddle generation. Like, one of my earliest memories is playing with a working rotary phone my parents had in the kitchen of our house. But, also, I was online for the first time at like 7 or 8 and very much was raised onli... See more
The Atlantic • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
In her 2021 novel Fake Accounts, Lauren Oyler pokes fun at what she sees as a propensity to wallow in self-loathing and impotence: “the popular turn to fatalism could be attributed to self-aggrandizement and an ignorance of history, history being characterized by the population’s quickness to declare apocalypse finally imminent despite its permanen... See more
Dorian Lynskey • ‘End of the World Vibes’: Why Culture Can’t Stop Thinking About Apocalypse
generational bias naturally brings us to view today’s problems as uniquely distressing relative to other times.
you can separate today’s tech entrepreneurs into two clearly different buckets—those who experienced the dot-com crash in the late 1990s, and those who didn’t because they were too young.