tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7210602.post1331596189906510955..comments2024-03-29T07:09:43.007-05:00Comments on A Shroud of Thoughts: A Blast From the Past: Generation Jones Does Not ExistTerence Towles Canotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18397088843628331615noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7210602.post-61470127862424566282009-10-25T21:44:39.579-05:002009-10-25T21:44:39.579-05:00You truly do have a point with your divide between...You truly do have a point with your divide between the Beatles Boomers and the Led Zeppelin Boomers. Born in 1957 here, and graduated high school at age 18 in 1975. The Beatles had been defunct for five years. We listened to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Grand Funk Railroad, and Blue Oyster Cult when I was in high school. Although Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison had died the Who were still around, and we did listen also to a lot to the 60's music that happened just a bit too early for us. I don't know where disco came from. Most of my age cohorts despised it. When I well into my college years you either loved Pink Floyd's movie "The Wall" or a year or so later, "Animal House." Apparently "Animal House" for some reason won over the generation right after the Boomers. Maybe it was just the difference between being born in 1957 or 1961.<br /><br />I could vote for Jimmy Carter in 1976, did so by absentee ballot when I was away in my first year of college, did so because my parents advised it as Democrats. I'm still glad I voted accordingly. In 1980 as a grad student, I made the worst mistake of my life when I voted for the third party candidate, John Anderson, instead of Carter in the Carter vs Reagan election. My first attempt to think for myself politically. A friend a few years older than I at the time warned me, and I now consider him prescient, although I have long since lost touch with him.<br /><br /> I grew up in the Washington D.C. area and remember in junior high trying to read the Watergate transcripts in the Washington Post because of all of those fascinating *expletive deleted's.* Born in 1957, I was just barely conscious enough to get the echoes of vibes from Buffalo Springfield that there was something strange going on. But I was in 10th grade when Nixon resigned, can recall that clearly.<br /><br /> Didn't have Saturday morning cartoons from the moment of birth, but I remember being the first family on the block to get a color tv when I was about six years old. Could that be such a difference between those of us born in 1957 and 1961, that we didn't have kid tv in the earliest years?<br /><br /> I saw Star Wars when I was a college student, liked it, but wasn't overawed, as it'd spent high school watching reruns of Star Trek, which captivated me.<br /><br /> I find that people born just four years later than me tend to be much more conservative than I and my other age cohorts are. Those of us born in 1957 still felt a part of the 60's, although we were only 12 years old or so at the time of Woodstock. But we came to consciousness early enough to understand what Watergate and the aftermath of Vietman were about. My younger brothers, born four and five years after I was, are Republicans, while I'm a liberal progressive. Same parents, same raising, but just in four years very different cultural influences, perhaps.<br /><br />There does seem to be quite a bit of difference between those of us born in 1957 and those born in 1962. So much so that perhaps the transition in culture within those years should be looked at carefully in order to determine the mindset of America. I am not a Boomer, was not born into job entitlement, but I also was infused in college with a leftover "hippie" mindset, watched free movies at the Lair such as "Jimmie (Hendrix) Plays Berkley" and "Slaughterhouse 5." An inculcation much different from the "Animal House" culture that just a few years later dominated.Kim Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01259254543249893773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7210602.post-64253038355363699642009-09-11T12:18:02.624-05:002009-09-11T12:18:02.624-05:00Generation labels are just a marketing gimmick for...Generation labels are just a marketing gimmick for the ad men to target, each age group has its spending priorities, for my age group its medical expenses and retirement.Holte Enderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10356437917387847542noreply@blogger.com