Just wondering. Is my generation truly progressive compared to generation x and the baby boomers? Or did the rise of social media and the internet just make progressive movements more convenient and therefore are the primary cause?
I don't think so. I think as you age you get less progressive The mark will be made if they are more progressive at say 60 than the previous generations are at 60. Rocket River
Funny, I was completely raised in an uberconservative environment and I think I am becoming more progressive as I get older. But I think you should give kids these days the benefit of the doubt. I just read a great study for a class I’m taking on social media and marketing and the idea was that social media is making kids really think outside the box when it comes to how people interact business wise. Social media really is taking the place of traditional marketing and advertisement and will overtake it within a few years.
Maybe it is a coming to equilibrium While they may start off at the extremes . . .over time we come back to level Rocket River
Yes, journalists have already determined that Generation X is the greatest generation that has ever existed on the planet earth. I am proud to receive such an honor.
Rocket River, you were a Republican at an earlier time right? I seem to recall you said you were one (unless my memory is playing tricks on me again), and you became more liberal over the years?
no . . . I have been conservative now i am more independent. I am conservative on somethings. . liberal on others. Rocket River
Unfortunately, I think baby-boomers are severely overrated in their progressiveness. I think they did a good job chronicling and retro-actively praising the genuinely world-changing, once-in-a-millennium social and political growth of the '60s and '70s; and as parents and teachers enforcing materially evolved social norms, made life easier for future minorities and women down the road. But after living in Omaha for eight years and talking to some my managers and older co-workers, I have a really hard time believing a majority of them cared one whit about anyone or anything other than their very narrow economic and socio-cultural sphere. I think the rise of evangelism and suburban white flight were direct repudiations of social progress, and baby boomers cultivated and capitalized on them more than the GI generation or any group afterwards. Gen-Xers are inevitably more tolerant simply by being conditioned in a more tolerant world, but I think with white flight and evangelism really taking root in the '70s and '80s, it's possible they grew up in more segregated and implicitly stratified societies than their parents. Also, due to better education and having parents with higher incomes, the fact that they expect and aspire to more wealth than their parents will instill a subconscious class bias.
If Gen X fought the so-called Greatest Generation it would be a slaughter because we have bigger nukes, jets, and techno that would allow us to march faster.
Generation Y is a bunch of lazy good for nothing free loaders.... Oh wait thats what I heard about my generation! Nevermind. BTW, I'm a baby boomer. I think as you get old and discover things that work for you and come to a point in your life that you actually have something to loose you end up taking less chances and become more set in your ways. I think its a natural progression of getting older. Certainly when I was younger I lived week to week and pay-check to pay-check. Not anymore thats for sure. I'm not as willing to do absolutely anything like I was 20 years ago. So to answer your question I think every generation is progresive when they are younger but as they get older they are less progressive. I don't think it's a generation X, Y or baby boomer thing.
Also known as the Millennials. Basically everyone born in the mid to late 80's to the early 2000's. Stuff associated with them: Arab Spring. KONY (It was a huge failure because Invisible Children sucked... but social media spread that thing fast...) Reddit (In the more serious subreddits, intellectual discussions are pretty insightful) Abominations: 4chan (Internet Vigilantism + Weird Internet Subculture = Yuck)
15 year old douchebag kids with no concept of morality = 4chan 25 year olds douchebag post-college wanna-be progressive intellectuals way too into cats= reddit
it's social media. I think that's what marx was arguing? The speed at which information can spread is incredible. With that type of speed at which information can travel fast, people are more informed then they ever were several decades ago.
