re: A person born in 1981 is a Millennial or Generation X?

I cannot believe this conversation still occurs.

Each successive generation is worse than the one before it. Go back to Ancient Greece and you'll find text of older men shitting on the generation of younger men because they don't hold to the old ideals. You know why? We hold onto the past through faulty memory. It's nostalgia. We glorify the first generation as having been the embodiment of who we should be as a society. Julius Caesar was a dandy and subversive manipulator to Cato, who was steadfast in the camp of returning to a strong Republic and the old virtues, but was the greatest man to have ever lived to Augustus or Marcus Aurelius.

It doesn't matter. We can label ourselves as whatever we want. It's all nonsense. At the end of the day, we are simply human. Each Millennial is different, just like each Gen Xer is different. The only thing that doesn't change is that the older generations inevitably think they are better than the younger generations because the younger generations are "soft" or basically don't live up to the ideals that the older generation perceives as vital.

It's all garbage. All of it. Societies change and evolve. One day, the "Millennials" will be stodgy old fricks and look at the "Double 20s" generation (or whatever the hell we're going to call kids born after 2020) and say, "They don't have any idea what it used to be like! We used to have to type with our hands!!" I mean, fricking A, people. Wake up to the idiocy.

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Either way, you bitches born in 1986 or whatever aren't in.

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Yeah, you little bastards will never be in the X club. Deal with it.

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Yeah, you little bastards will never be in the X club. Deal with it.

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Thank god. Enjoy that closet full of hairband cutoff t-shirts

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and ungroomed pubic hair

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Crime against human decency.

We had a discussion about this on here last year. Think the consensus was that '84 was the line of demarcation. Im an '85 baby :!

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It doesn't matter. We can label ourselves as whatever we want. It's all nonsense. At the end of the day, we are simply human. Each Millennial is different, just like each Gen Xer is different. The only thing that doesn't change is that the older generations inevitably think they are better than the younger generations because the younger generations are "soft" or basically don't live up to the ideals that the older generation perceives as vital.

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I don't think the conversation is what you are implying, at least it isn't for me. I think it's interesting to compare and contrast different generations based on shared experiences, world events, whatever, especially these days. From the dawn of time until fairly recently, change was slow and steady. Now we've seen it speed up to the point that there are real differences between generations. Some of us like to talk about it. It's not about feeling superior to anyone.

There's always a few that make those kinds of comments. I just skim past them. Pretty silly to judge worth by birth year.

Do you even "Generation Y" bro?

X ends in 1979

I actually think humanity is deevolving, Slow. Too much human reliance on technology is not a positive thing.

Many experts also think the Singularity is a real possibility. That can only be accomplished by an over reliance by the human race on technology to solve our problems. The only problem I can see is that by the time humanity realizes that endless technological advancement is a bad things it will be too late. But, then again, I have come to almost think that the human race needs to disappear for the long term good of the Universe.