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  • C. R. Collins 🌳 🐸crcollins@writing.exchange
    Aug 8, 2026, 1:30 PM

    @Susan60 @mtnrbq65 @joyce @davidtheeviloverlord @jik

    Yes. Makes me sad when I see people posting about "Boomers," as if we are all a monolith & not the largest cohort in the history of the USA. I arrived during the latter half of this, "Generation Jones." Never had all that glorious wealth and was always more interested in jobs that did some good rather than paid a lot. I took the "hippie" movement to heart, I guess, which I was too young to be a part of.

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  • Looking for explanations…Susan60@aus.social
    Aug 9, 2026, 6:28 AM

    @CA_Hawthorne @crcollins @mtnrbq65 @joyce @davidtheeviloverlord @jik

    I’m not familiar with the term Gen Jones. Not used here in Australia.

    I too was too young for hippiedom or 2nd wave feminism.

    “Liberal” means something different here. Our Liberal party used to be genuinely liberal, a centrist party, but has swung over to the right. Meanwhile our “Labor” party, formed originally out of the Trade Union movement, is more like a centrist “progressive” party, but has lost its soul.

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  • Christina Anne HawthorneCA_Hawthorne@writing.exchange
    Aug 9, 2026, 11:56 AM

    @crcollins @davidtheeviloverlord @Susan60 @mtnrbq65 @joyce @jik

    Political labels are kind of crazy right now. There are democrats who fight, and those who don't (most). There are progressives, and there are corporates (most). Corporates are paid to look the other way, or lamely complain, while the radical right robs our treasury.

    Increasingly, no matter the label, people are starting to see through them. Is it too late? Pretty close.

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  • Looking for explanations…Susan60@aus.social
    Aug 9, 2026, 10:48 PM

    @davidtheeviloverlord @CA_Hawthorne @crcollins @mtnrbq65 @joyce @jik

    The label isn’t used here, but the idea is familiar.

    The cut off points between generations are arbitrary. What matters more is the size of the family & age of the parents. I had friends who were the youngest of 5 kids. I was one of 3 kids, & my parents were several years younger than theirs. Their fathers had fought in WWII; mine had still been a kid. Those different ages & life experiences of parents made a big difference to their parenting styles.

    I think that will show up again in kids born this century, with big differences between parents who had kids in their 30s or even 40s after establishing careers & buying a home, & those whose parents started families younger. One lot of parents wealthier, but older than the other lot. (Having teens in your 50s & 60s… glad I didn’t have to do that.)

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