Jan

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I wonder if generational attitudes are indeed predictable or whether the social scientists are just picking and choosing data to make it fit their theories.

Several of my family members were impacted by the the sights seen as youngsters during the Depression and sometimes they became excessively stingy (penny-wise, pound foolish) with their money decades later. One of the funny stories was one of saving 2 cents by not buying a bottle opener (church key) in the early 1960s, instead opening the Coke bottles in advance, then leaving the opened bottles on the floor of the Oldsmobile, and then watching them spill out later at the first major bump in the road. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Strauss and Howe, perhaps flawed but interesting. Will austerity and thriftiness become ever increasingly in vogue and create deflationary pressures? Is there any value in this type of analysis? If people were rocks I would say yes.

 * Arthurian Generation (1433-1460)
   * Humanist Generation (1461-1482)
   * Reformation Generation (1483-1511)
   * Reprisal Generation (1512-1540)
   * Elizabethan Generation (1541-1565)
   * Parliamentary Generation (1566-1587)
   * Puritan generation (1588-1617)
   * Cavalier Generation (1618-1647)
   * Glorious Generation (1648-1673)
   * Enlightenment Generation (1674-1700)
   * Awakening Generation (1701-1723)
   * Liberty generation (1724-1741)
   * Republican generation (1742-1766)
   * Compromise Generation (1767-1791)
   * Transcendental Generation (1792-1821)
   * Gilded Generation (1822-1842)
   * Progressive generation (1843-1859)
   * Missionary Genration (1860-1882)
   * Lost Generation (1883–1900)
   * G.I. Generation (1901–1924)
   * Silent Generation (1925–1942)
   * (Baby) Boom Generation (1943–1960)
   * 13th Generation (Gen X) (1961–1981)
   * Millennial Generation (Gen Y) (1982–2004)
   * Homeland Generation (Gen Z) (2005-?)


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