Reminds me that the whole concept of generations is something manufactured of whole cloth and meant to divide us, but more than that, that real people are compassionate and understanding. All that stuff is just fake.

It gives me hope for unity.

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    There is something to be said about abandoning the generational lines though. Pew Research is doing it

    As I understand it, only baby boomers are somewhat unified on things and every generation after that drifted more and more into being less distinct, demographically speaking, as a group. The cadence you reference was unified by the end of WWII and, naturally, diffused from there.

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      it feels like theres more to generational computation than just a temporally-similar social group.

      ie, im sure geneticists have a differing view of ‘generation’ than the pew research group.

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        Yeah, but now we’re drifting into specialized fields and I would suspect that geneticists ignored all the traditional labels in the first place. I’d imagine they define things like that by the rise of a particular mutation, for example.

        Generation, as a laymen term, is exactly that. A temporally similar social group.

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      They’re unified? When I look at history, it seems to me that they were quite a rebellious generation, with the hippie movement, and the creation of metal and hard rock. Now, if we look at how they’re generally represented, and if they are unified, something doesn’t add up.