Perennial gratitude post for all the elders here who've gone through so many different phases of life, picking up ideological wounds and losing friends, hopes, and dreams along the way.
You've seen things we younger people wouldn't believe... attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate... the Nixon and Reagan administrations firsthand...
It may feel like it's all being forgotten, but I appreciate the lessons in perseverance you uphold.
@MLClark I too feel gratitude to the older generations. Especially the ones here that have been so friendly and kind to this strange millennial beast.
We're all meant to help and learn from each other. Older wisdom, mixed with a more youthful energy often leads to progress.
Agreed, dear friend. Well said. I'm currently also working on a piece "against generationalism": pro-solidarity with the people who've been doing what they could to fight the good fight long before either of us was born.
I'm just *done* with the way so much of mass media wants to keep us all locked in simplistic chronological competition with each other for a better world.
@NiveusLepus @MLClark there's also a divide within the Boomers. Those of us who are late Boomers--the Jones Generation--had a very different experience from our older peers. I saw the beginning of the doors closing that impacted the X gens.
@joycereynoldsward @MLClark Im a First Gen millennial, I was born in 81 so I grew up with X'ers being just a little older than me.
One of my partners is Gen X, he was born in 76
@MLClark I too have seen the divide media has tried to create.
There is a lot of difference between the boomer generations and the ones that followed, but to my mind, that means we have a lot to learn from each other. I've had so many kind people in my life from the silent, greatest, and boomer generations.
Boomers aren't bad, X's, millenials, etc are not lazy. It's just a rapidly evolving time.
There doesn't need to be division. We can and do help each other.