Generation Slap
There’s a new article on Millennials over at Radar by FREEwilliamsburg founder Robert Lanham.
Millennials are younger. Healthier. They got to do anal in high school. They think updating a spreadsheet while posting to a Twitter account about gossip on perezhilton.com is an essential corporate skill…. An egregious example of generational bias lies in Gen X’s stigma as the “MTV Generation,” a title that was always intended as a pejorative. … Ironically, when applied to the Millennials, who are similarly affected by the Internet, possessing a short attention span becomes an accolade. They just call it multitasking.
Check it out here.
Ancient: McCain
Boomer: Hillary
GenX: Obama, Colbert, Cobain, etc..
Millennial: Carson Daly
and some. Cool wand, Robert Lanham! Have you read CONSUMING YOUTH, by Rob Latham?
Another disturbing trend I’ve noticed: an astounding proportion 0f the good-looking set from this younger G maintain, and expect any partner also to have maintained, a hairless pubis? Honestly, these young people, this is really important to them–they insist on it–it’s a value of their generation, like it was important to my generation to avoid wearing a suit.
In my day, and I bet in Paul Davis’s, we’d take it how we could get it. At least we whined about important things, like a locked-up social strata–these kids’ll complain about a little stuble.
I support the abridgement of “Millennial” to the ME Generation. It’s what the wired young people who are its leaders care about most. Their focus seems to be (as war rages overseas with astoundingly little protest from twentysomethings, civil rights erode, schools are being privatized or else neglected, etc. etc.) never very far from themselves, and usually fixated on self-image and projection (made plain in all the blogging and facebooking). Look out, kids!
sixpence, 1978
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7lUBeVIfG4
who is that guy on the right? i’m not a millenial -or- generation x. it seems like a demographic gets skipped.
Robert.
this is the most self important load of shit article I have ever read.
fits right in line with lame ass gen x shit.