Sunday, March 8, 2009

Today's Link

Here's a link for all the unemployed addicts forced to live on cat food out there, this time from the New York Times:

Generation OMG

Interesting takeaways: for those who like labels, this article calls millennials the "homelander" generation (as in security) and also calls us the next "Silent Generation." The basic thrust of the article is that the generation that lives through the Great Recession may/may not be branded by it, and that we older members of the cohort may prioritize either security/creativity in our jobs/unjobs.

I remember when people were talking about how millennials were going to be the "organization kid" generation and how we were going to do try and do everything before we had mental breakdowns. Now we're going to be like the children who came of age during the Depression? I suspect this is a combination of Great Recession Alarmism and the modern (post-modern?) desire to analyze and categorize in media res.

P.S. Millennials and Homelanders sound like rival factions in a sci-fi novel, no?

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