Talkin' 'Bout My - Geeeneration

[robinturner]

According to recent research, I'm a "radical Jones". That's the radical subset of the Jones generation: people born in the late fifties or early sixties, who "were promised an easier life by the advent of electronic technology but were scarred by the economic crises and mass unemployment of the 1970s and 1980s." The profile got me wrong on at least two counts though: I don't read Men's Health, and I never liked the Sex Pistols.

Comments

[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

heh ...
... maybe that's why things have gone the way they have for me: I was precocious enough to slip into the yuppie group (on the bus in '68, at 14) but then when I kicked things over I slipped into this group. Gawds know I've spent enough of my time Jonesing!

The article is cute ... dunno that the archetypes are brilliant, though; think someone would finance some multivariate analysis on this?

BTW: who's the cutie in the icon?

[fallenarches.livejournal.com]

Oh good. A new irritant. Now, thanks to Pontell's oh so economically motivated quest to give 'us' a generational name - www.jonathanpontell.com (http://www.jonathanpontell.com) - I can't be 'lost' anymore. But I like being lost....

I think what really peeves me is that I should be able to go on Fox News as a "Pop Culture Expert," damn it.

And frankly, I prefer the German generational naming method based on watershed moments: Kriegskinder, the 68ers, the 89ers, und so weiter. There's more elegance to it.

[solri.livejournal.com]

I agree. Here in Turkey they also talk about "the 68 generation" (altmışsekiz kuşağı).