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Howe and Strauss chronicle America's cynical, pragmatic thirteenth generation, My generation, that is. This weeks headline Boomers analyze GenX

Why this book more nineties nostalgia

Which book format used old textbook

Primary reading environment beside swimming hole

Any preconceived notions wannabe definitive text

Identify most with ummy parents

Threeword quote “mortgaged your future”

Goes well with celery with ranch

Hate to break it to you, Boomers, but selfactualization does not arrive in your twenties during an acid trip.


Theres a lot more going on in this book, but Im focusing on the Boomers because I think the authors were “way harsh” on their own generation, and that, more than anything, makes me feel connected to something bigger than myself.


I made the mistake of watching sitelinkTaking Woodstock last week, Im still not impressed with the hippie on horseback, and Im sort of upset with that entire generation for the selfish way they behaved.


You werent immediately released from samsara upon enlightenment, Bummer. Whats even worse is that you went from hippie

to yuppie, becoming more and more of an asshole with each justification,

Finding yourself so early in life leaves you with many more years on this planet ample time to sell out,

Like religion or true love, complete consciousness should be a lifelong pursuit, an ongoing struggle between the forces of good and evil, not a public demonstration against "the man," who, in reality, deserves peace and love too.


I need to admit that Im still confused and angry about the sway boomers hold over the collegiate experience, My collegiate experience in particular,

It wasnt even so much the Dylan quotes and liberal slurs that came from the professors, It was the way they heaped rewards upon members of the younger generation who bought wholesale into their philosophy,

I think a lot of my mistrust has to do with boomers identities being intertwined with their selfrighteous activism, World peace and universal love would negate their very existence,

Apparently, it is very GenX of me to wonder why if the sixties were so enlightening and the peace movement conquered all we are in the middle of two fucking wars.


Other cultural accompaniments: sitelinkReality Bites, sitelinkClueless, sitelinkTaking Woodstock

Grade: B/A

I leave you with this: “But what many called apathy might also have been described as the weary realism of a generation whose own firsthand experiences have taught them what can happen when barriers are blithely broken down: chaos, confusion, a new mess for somebody to clean up.
” This book came recommended as a good one for the use of data and statistics as applied to generational demographics what I found was a bunch of interprative psychobabble.
Spoke to me back inwhen I picked it up on a whim and a recent New Yorker Article and Blog post have brought this book back to my attention.
Sure it is dated in its format, but think about when it was being researched and written, Yes it is written by 'gasp' boomers they are, much to their credit, strong demographic researchers discussing trends and generational types, We, like the Lost Generation, our Great Grandparents, are lost in the abyss and frankly can't understand why everyone else needs so much attention paid to their generation! Howe and Strauss covered theth Generationand the otherAmerican generationsbriefly in their first book, Generations.
Here they go into great and often grim detail about what we now call Generation X, The writing is livelier than Generations, fortunately, The sidebars are interesting, although distracting,

In some respects, yes, the book is showing its age, Thirteeners are now hitting midlife instead of young adulthood, and the 13th Gen's chatroom format is likely to bring on a wave of nostalgia in its own right.
On the other hand, reading this book this many years later lets you see how well the authors' predictions for the future have been playing out.
Prediction"Reaching midlife, theers' economic fears will be confirmed, They will become the only generation born this century the first since the Gilded to suffer a onegeneration backstep in living standards" has added oomph to it as I write this in the recession of.
. . It would have been very hard for the authors to predict two significant things that hadn't happened at the time of publication that would significantly and indelibly affect my generation: the rise of the internet and the information age revolution, and/.


These are two significant cultural shifts and markers these authors couldn't have seen coming except for maybe the internet that I think historians will look atyears from now as very significant.


It was very hard to read a book about my generation that came out in the early's, written in a style of the's, nearlyyears after the fact.
Some things were right on, other things were a little pessimistic and not accurate,

Interesting read for historical perspective, but not much else for me! i read this when it first came out and loved it.
i recently thought about it, thank you ebay! as a gen xer, i would love to see an updated version about how were doing now ha This is one of my favorite books for understanding Generation X, people like me born between.
We are divided into two subgroups Atari and Nintendo,

If you ever wonder why you can't get one of us on a committee this is the book to read,

This is the book that helps the boomers understand why we are not like them, Of course, the book is full of commentary, pictures, irreverent responses which will irritate the average didactic boomer to no end, Oh well.

A sound theory on how the Boomers "Great Society" policies has turned the nation into a dump, Filled with bunkum and real insight, drowning in's and early's pop culture, at turns humorous and downright insulting, Howe's book filled two weeks of my evenings with eye rolls, snorts, uhuhs and general amusement.
Written by two Boomers who at times portrayed themselves as unapologeticly the superior generation, and at other times took a scathing look in the mirror themselves, I enjoyed their historical perspective of my generation theth, theirs and my parent's Boomer Generation, my aunts' Silent generation and my grandparent's GI generation.
I learned a tremendous amount about historical political policy and much of my own childhood and that of my parent's childhood made more sense as a result.
Highly recommend. Probably a bit outdated, this was a fascinating look at generational differences,th gen, gen x, understanding, I read this book some time ago, Considering it was written by a couple of Boomers, this is a hilarious and VERY insightful look into my generation, and done very on.
What's interesting is all the things predicted that have come true! First read this book when it came out in the early nineties, This was before Generation X was known as Generation X and just after Douglas Coupland's novel "Generation X" came out, The book is a little dated asth Gens were at the timeand under and now we're lates tos!, however there some truths in it about our generation.
Overall an interesting cultural study, Awfully fun, our little generation has been crushed on both ends by generations bigger and more famous than we are, So nice to get a smidgen of recognition, Incredibly whiny. Aptly sums up the experiences, challenges, and cultural expectations of the "latchkey" or "forgotten" generation, Very entertaining yet incredibly factual, and still relevantyears after being published, Highly recommended to anyone born, This one contained some interesting comparisons between American generations, But reading it fifteen years after it was written had my mental timeline all messed up, Trying to remember the GenX theirth Gen young people I was meeting back then, and also trying to remember what it was all about just prior to widespread Internet and Web knowledge or availability! I do recall in those days a definite sense among the new adults that they would never have it as good as their parents, but as it turns out, that appears to have just been the beginning or a longterm, multigenerational trend.
I kept wondering how much of Barack Obama's support was coming from this generation, I learned of this book from an appearance by author Bill Strauss on a show about Generational Differences on KUOW's Weekday , .