I read your post before you deleted it. I don't know if I'd call it pretentious, but tumblr isn't the place for talking about much of anything.
Regarding generations: I don't know what to make of giant catchall generation terms. I tend to see people born in the early to mid 80s are having more in common with so-called "gen x" than with the people born from ... idk ... say 1988 onward? who are clearly counted as "millennials." That said, I have seen the start and end dates "defining" gen x shift so many times I put little stock in all of this. Very little of the Official Word on these so called generations matches what I have seen in other people (or myself) unless all of this generation talk drops the marketing or HR speak and instead just goes for broad brush similarities based on major events that shaped a cohort's childhood. FWIW, right before I left academia (exactly one year ago), I noticed a MASSIVE shift in values, expectations, attitudes, and assumptions moving through the undergrads, and it was the first time I felt a "generation gap" between myself and people younger than me. If anything, my experiences make me wonder if the generational "shift" (whatever that means" happened around 1990-1992, dividing those born before vs those born after as different generational cohorts. *GIANT SHRUG OF IDK*
Closets: professional life in general (where "professional" is a code word for a well-paid "expert" on some process or area), and academic professional life in specific (where well-paid is traded for the myth of academic freedom ;) is a strange beast regarding what one is allowed to do or not do among the "riff raff" on the internet. Best of all: you can officially study the activities of the digital riff raff and write peer reviewed academic papers about them BUT GOD FORBID YOU ACTUALLY ARE ONE OF THEM. Oh no. Oh no no no.
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Date: 2016-01-17 10:33 pm (UTC)Regarding generations: I don't know what to make of giant catchall generation terms. I tend to see people born in the early to mid 80s are having more in common with so-called "gen x" than with the people born from ... idk ... say 1988 onward? who are clearly counted as "millennials." That said, I have seen the start and end dates "defining" gen x shift so many times I put little stock in all of this. Very little of the Official Word on these so called generations matches what I have seen in other people (or myself) unless all of this generation talk drops the marketing or HR speak and instead just goes for broad brush similarities based on major events that shaped a cohort's childhood. FWIW, right before I left academia (exactly one year ago), I noticed a MASSIVE shift in values, expectations, attitudes, and assumptions moving through the undergrads, and it was the first time I felt a "generation gap" between myself and people younger than me. If anything, my experiences make me wonder if the generational "shift" (whatever that means" happened around 1990-1992, dividing those born before vs those born after as different generational cohorts. *GIANT SHRUG OF IDK*
Closets: professional life in general (where "professional" is a code word for a well-paid "expert" on some process or area), and academic professional life in specific (where well-paid is traded for the myth of academic freedom ;) is a strange beast regarding what one is allowed to do or not do among the "riff raff" on the internet. Best of all: you can officially study the activities of the digital riff raff and write peer reviewed academic papers about them BUT GOD FORBID YOU ACTUALLY ARE ONE OF THEM. Oh no. Oh no no no.