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!@#$%! · 04.30.2015, 08:50 AM

every generation sort of wants to be the previous one because that's what they grow up watching. the problem is they can't because the conditions are different.

e.g.-- boomers had free love, but gen xers had aids.

many genxers grew up with boomer fantasies though-- this is the motivation behind a show like californication, which survived 7 seasons on tv. it's supposed gen-xer dude (with hair dye to make him look younger) living out rocknroll fantasies from the 70s. it's pure wish fulfillment.

as for the WU-- yes but they were also middle class kids against the draft. take out the draft and out goes the motivation to *really* fight the war. let the poors do it in a volunteer professional army.

it's true that boomers gave us some kind of revolution though-- flawed as it was. gen-xers gave us better food, better coffee, better wine, and microbrews. as boomers became yuppies, genxers became bobos (those who could). this bobo term was in circulation around the year 2000, coined by a journo-- it has survived in some places but it's mostly forgotten. still i think it was an accurate concept-- the melding of bohemian & bourgeois culture in the rich, the upper middle classes, and their emulators. this is why gentrification is on perpetual fast-forward now, btw-- the affluent crave "authentic" urban experiences instead of fleeing them like they did before.

04.30.2015, 08:50 AM	#36
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,496	every generation sort of wants to be the previous one because that's what they grow up watching. the problem is they can't because the conditions are different. e.g.-- boomers had free love, but gen xers had aids. many genxers grew up with boomer fantasies though-- this is the motivation behind a show like californication, which survived 7 seasons on tv. it's supposed gen-xer dude (with hair dye to make him look younger) living out rocknroll fantasies from the 70s. it's pure wish fulfillment. as for the WU-- yes but they were also middle class kids against the draft. take out the draft and out goes the motivation to really fight the war. let the poors do it in a volunteer professional army. it's true that boomers gave us some kind of revolution though-- flawed as it was. gen-xers gave us better food, better coffee, better wine, and microbrews. as boomers became yuppies, genxers became bobos (those who could). this bobo term was in circulation around the year 2000, coined by a journo-- it has survived in some places but it's mostly forgotten. still i think it was an accurate concept-- the melding of bohemian & bourgeois culture in the rich, the upper middle classes, and their emulators. this is why gentrification is on perpetual fast-forward now, btw-- the affluent crave "authentic" urban experiences instead of fleeing them like they did before.
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