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'.

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Shanel said…
Now that sounds interesting.... I'll have to look that up... wish I could have watched it.
6:08 AM
hetyd4580 said…
I like your blog. Brokaw is deservedly a beloved icon. But he is nothing remotely approximating an expert in generations, and his Boomer$ show was embarrassingly uninformed. For example, he uses that old widely-discredited 1946-1964 Boomer definition at a time when most actual experts now divide that demographic boom in births into two distinct generations: the real Boomer Generation and Generation Jones. Generations are a function of the common formative experiences of its members, not the fertility rates of its parents. And most analysts now see generations as getting shorter (usually 10-15 years now), partly because of the acceleration of culture. The demographic boom in births was 1946-1964, but most experts now believe that the actual cultural Boomer Generation was born approximately 1942-1953, while GenJones was born from around 1954 to 1965.

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of us GenJonesers who are quite happy to see our long-ignored generation finally recognized, and who are unhappy with out-of-date, badly-researched material like this Boomer$ show.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
7:14 AM
Fam Guy said…
Don't have time, now, but will definitely check out your links, hety. My wife and I have had the same discussion, when Sarah Palin was described as a boomer (born in '64). Big difference in those age groups.
9:25 AM
ladyj said…
I'd really like to know when hetyd was born. The Boomers were born following WWII. I cannot see where 1942, the height of the war would be a birth "boom". Men are off fighting the war. Remember Roosevelt declared war on Japan, Dec. 7th 1941. Were we not already fighting Germany prior to 1941?
10:43 AM
hetyd4580 said…
FamGuy: Palin is certainly not of the Boomer Generation. She, along with Michael Steele, Tim Pawlenty, Eric Cantor among others represent the new GenJones Republicans that are clearly different than Boomer Republicans like George W Bush.

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.
10:55 AM
ladyj said…
to Hetyd: you should read Robert Sammuelson's article Real Generation Gap. What is your forte?
12:48 PM
Anonymous said…
You boomers think you are so special. Why?
5:56 PM
Fam Guy said…
One of the guys, on Boomers, is a 59 year old Marine, who enlisted after 9-11, to 'protect America', and shipped off to Iraq. "NEWSFLASH"! Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11, you dummy.
6:00 PM
ladyj said…
to Anon: What makes you think Boomers feel special?
7:21 PM
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