Who said it was the "Greatest Generation"?
Just because that mushmouthed Tom Brokaw said it on TV one day?
This thing called the "Baby Boomers".
Are all people born between the years 1944-1964 REALLY all the same?
And this "Generation X" stuff.
All I got from that was a catchy name for a pro wrestling group (D-Generation X).
Now it's Generation Y, Generation Z, & so forth. Or the Millenials or whatever.
Every now & then they'll talk about the "generation" before the "Greatest Generation" & call them the "Silent Generation".
Do they call them that because they lived before the talkies?
Do they call them that because they were all deaf-mute?
People are people.
Two people born from the same year can be absolutely different in how they live life.
Is it true that people born in comparable time periods have a certain set of shared cultural experiences? Yes.
But to put this blanket label on so many people seems plain silly to me.
Being born in 1976 I'm supposed to be under Generation X but I didn't spend all my time complaining about my mother who's supposed to be under the Baby Boomer label.
I learned a lot from my grandmother who falls under the Greatest Generation label.
I learn a lot from my younger 20-something year cousin who falls under Millennial Y or whatever they call it.
But one thing I DO know not to do is start that old man griping about the younger folks.
I told myself from a young age that I'm not gonna complain about the things generations after me do.
Because from the beginning of humanity the older generation was always worried that the younger one was gonna destroy the world.
Hasn't quite happened yet so I don't think the new folks will be any different.
People are people.
Enough of these stupid labels.
John Lucas
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