One of the weirdest modern things to me is this obsession with generations. Maybe I haven't read the right stuff, but you pick up a 19th or 18th century book and they talk about the past, or conflict I families, but never this weird cohort-antagonism thing?
Could be it's random culture shit, but maybe it's because people have fewer kids, so they don't span generations? Or maybe tech acceleration means cohorts have more differences that are real?
@ZachWeinersmith It is tech acceleration. Except the 1830s kids, they were just bastards, lazy bastards.
@mistersql @ZachWeinersmith tech accel combined with pervasive media outlets and polling companies who figured out that people love to click on this type of nonsense and it’s easy content to create. also very wealth-centric, as in many parts of the world, tech accel is not generational. i grew up in rural bangladesh where i had a computer, but other teens i knew didn’t even have telephones, let alone laptops!
