There's a catch-22 that I'm inordinately proud of "my" "generation" even as part of that level of pride involves a highly misunderstood ethos, one of whose manifestations (by all rights) ought to be refusal to pigeonhole yourself by arbitrary age range.
(Another of those, and perhaps the most misunderstood, is the meme of not caring about anything or anyone - rather the point is not to care about stupid people, and in general the sort of people who waste words on generational stereotypes are decidedly among the stupid.)
Anyway, this piece is sort of interesting and sort of vindicating if you can get over the fact that by definition it had no reason to exist.
One thing about "us" is that we'll do a significantly better job raising our kids than those silly helicopter parents did with the Y people.
Posted by Matt Bruce at May 15, 2008 02:28 PMDude, he is bitching up a storm about a generation in which a majority of members haven't even graduated high school yet. Some of them haven't even graduated kindergarden yet.
In short, I think his claims are overwrought.
Posted by: Kubi at May 15, 2008 04:52 PM