© 2007 Scott Degraffenreid
Gen-X was in most respects, more similar to their Boomer parents than they were different. Gen-Y (more appropriately referred to as Millennials) are not only different from the 2 previous generations but as significant a departure in every substantive regard as any generation in human history. They could and perhaps rightly should be considered Human Beings v.2.0.
Millennials - The Care & Feeding of the Future
Every generation is, of course, different. We all have schisms with our parents, of some sort, whether it was playing loud rock & roll music, wearing different hairstyles or making radically different lifestyle choices of one kind or another. This is a wholly natural and mostly painless process that allows adolescent s to achieve a healthy separation from the parents while forming their own distinctive identities.
The group of young people born between 1982 and 2001 are commonly referred to as Generation-Y or just
Gen-Y. This nomenclature is unfortunate for several reasons, not the least of which, is that it makes them sound somehow contiguous
with, or worse yet, a derivative of Generation-X. Generation-X was the population born between 1965 and 1982 subsequent to the
end of the Baby Boom.
Because some version of this generational bifurcation has been occurring for most of human history, it isn’t particularly surprising that the apparently similar but, in truth, highly divergent separation of the Millennials has gone not so much unnoticed as unrecognized for the cataclysmic shift it truly is.
© 2007, 2009 Scott Degraffenreid
