Yes, because, as we all know, no generation defining historical events have happened since the Vietnam war, the beetles and the hippie movement. Anything that has happened since then has actually solely been the life experiences of boomers, and only their interpretation of such events actually matters.
That’s why everyone since then has been named after a unit of time or letters. Not like, you know, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the GWOT, the global financial crisis, or the rise of the internet as a central pillar of society merit naming generations after. No, those are actually all just subsets of the life experience of boomers, and other generations who don’t matter.
Coupland used “X” to make the point that they (we) had no other identity - we were just the generation after the Boomers. He also called us “the Misplaced Generation.”
But when the name started to catch on, advertisers picked it up and started using it in marketing, and it just sort of snowballed from there.
And we just ran with that convention all the way up to Y(millenials), Z, Alpha???
I assumed someone had been counting
Yes, because, as we all know, no generation defining historical events have happened since the Vietnam war, the beetles and the hippie movement. Anything that has happened since then has actually solely been the life experiences of boomers, and only their interpretation of such events actually matters.
That’s why everyone since then has been named after a unit of time or letters. Not like, you know, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the GWOT, the global financial crisis, or the rise of the internet as a central pillar of society merit naming generations after. No, those are actually all just subsets of the life experience of boomers, and other generations who don’t matter.
Millenial is just another name for Gen Y
Pretty much - yeah.
Coupland used “X” to make the point that they (we) had no other identity - we were just the generation after the Boomers. He also called us “the Misplaced Generation.”
But when the name started to catch on, advertisers picked it up and started using it in marketing, and it just sort of snowballed from there.