Am watching, on DVR,
Tom Brokaw's "Boomers", and just realized, as he starts out, that the Conservatives just shot and killed the Libs that got in their way. JFK, and Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Kent State students,
among many others. A BIG difference between the peace and love generation, and Viet Nam era war mongers. Some people were IN the generation, but not OF it. Can't explain why, but some people just never 'got it'.
among many others. A BIG difference between the peace and love generation, and Viet Nam era war mongers. Some people were IN the generation, but not OF it. Can't explain why, but some people just never 'got it'.
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Google Generation Jones, and you’ll see it’s gotten lots of media attention, with many major mainstream media companies using this term. In fact, the Associated Press' annual Trend Report chose the Rise of Generation Jones as the #1 trend of 2009. There are many of us GenJonesers who are quite happy to see our long-ignored generation finally recognized, and who are unhappy with out-of-date, badly-researched material like this Boomer$ show. We should speak out and do what we each can to help spread awareness of GenJones, so that our generation can finally have its collective voice fully heard.
Here are some good links about GenJones I found:
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090127/column27_st.art.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ta_Du5K0jk
http://generationjones.com/2009latest.html
Ladyj: I was born in 1961. The birth boom and WWII which you cite has absolutley nothing to do with determining generational boundaries. No generation ever before or since the so-called Baby Boom "Generation" was ever determined at all by birth rates. It was just a historical mistake, which is why most experts now no longer use that silly 1946-1964 definition. And no, we weren't fighting Germany in 1941, but again this has zero relevance to determining the birth year parameters of the Boom Generation.