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While seeking out my fix of dopamine I will usually go read content (fluff?) over at Reddit. There is certainly some good stuff over there and there is also a lot of crap. I noticed in recent months that the use of the term 'boomer' being applied to events, situations and whatever story it may be that someone being labelled as a 'boomer' just because they are not young. I know my autism tries to keep me in the justice lane a lot of the time but I find it insulting on the one hand and an example of Idiocracy on the other hand.
Cultural generations are defined by major changes in culture. For instance, the inception of my generation (X) was due to the Vietnam war. The Boomer generation, which came directly before mine, was the result of the end of WW2. The Y generation (millennials) came with 1980 and all of the changing starting events therein, and the Z-generation was the Y2K mistakes.
But I find it funny when someone refers to a 30-something as a Boomer just because they are not a teenager, or even a twenty-something. The term seems to be catchy, yet also an indicator of how the young seem to care not the original meaning and just blindly use a word for whatever they feel like using it for. And while I missed being a Boomer by a single year, if some snot-nosed punk called me one in person I would probably set forth a psychological war to ruin the fool's day, month or even life, while silently plotting their demise.
So, how do those of you from your respective generations find it when another generation mislabels your generation, or worse, mislabels you?
Note: Idiocracy is a movie from the early 2000's. It is a funny movie that has lost its comedy because as most like me have noticed it has turned into a documentary. The fall of the western civilization is upon us, IMO.
Cultural generations are defined by major changes in culture. For instance, the inception of my generation (X) was due to the Vietnam war. The Boomer generation, which came directly before mine, was the result of the end of WW2. The Y generation (millennials) came with 1980 and all of the changing starting events therein, and the Z-generation was the Y2K mistakes.
But I find it funny when someone refers to a 30-something as a Boomer just because they are not a teenager, or even a twenty-something. The term seems to be catchy, yet also an indicator of how the young seem to care not the original meaning and just blindly use a word for whatever they feel like using it for. And while I missed being a Boomer by a single year, if some snot-nosed punk called me one in person I would probably set forth a psychological war to ruin the fool's day, month or even life, while silently plotting their demise.
So, how do those of you from your respective generations find it when another generation mislabels your generation, or worse, mislabels you?
Note: Idiocracy is a movie from the early 2000's. It is a funny movie that has lost its comedy because as most like me have noticed it has turned into a documentary. The fall of the western civilization is upon us, IMO.