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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
As far as I'm concerned this is the same debate that will happen every generation. The world changes, people change with it. One day when we're Cowperson's age (hopefully not for a few decades yet) we'll be looking at all the 'young'uns' talking about how things and people are 'different' now than they used to be, as though there's some static social arrangement that can be identified and monitored throughout the ages, or that there's some sort of value in attempting to keep this arrangment arrested and 'the same'. You think people born in 1900 were looking at people born in 1950 and saying 'yep, chip off the ol' block there'... hell, if you were born in 1900 then a kid having a car when he's 16 in 1950 probably blows your freaking mind!
This type of generational shift is inevitble, it'll happen every time a bunch of people get old and a bunch of new people are born.
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I don't think generational shift is the issue here though. I don't think anybody is denying generational shift. I think the interesting thing is the specific characteristics of this generation and why this generation has those characteristics.