Generation X: Prepare to Feel Ancient
Well, we’re off to go see the new baby girl of my wife's niece. Ladies and gentlemen, let's have a warm Earth welcome for Isabella, born at 8 and a half pounds. Just think, she'll never know a world without blogs.
That brings up the subject of getting older: Have you ever noticed how young people try and make us Generation-Can’t-Remember types feel bad by saying things like, “Gosh, I wasn’t even born in 1975"? Guess what, Generation X’ers? The divide is going to be the year 2000 and anyone born before that will seem ancient in no time. It will be like being born in 1898 or something. Even worse. Not only will we all be SO last century, we’ll be SO last millennium. Meanwhile here’s Isabella, born in January of 2006. Annoying, isn't it?
posted by Bill McDonald @ 3:08 PM
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My problem is writing that cites 'generation' without defining it. The editorial today, e.g., on "a promise made a generation ago," which was followed by "two decades" and then "recent years" to measure how long that "generation ago" amounts to.
Ask around, poll people: How long is a generation?
Ask me and I say a generation is 14 years. Mostly because that's the age of puberty, at which re-generation is indeed possible. But also because 14 years is the time the slowest moving, most evolved planet, Neptune, spends in each 'sign.' (Pluto is not a planet.)
1900-1914 Neptune in Cancer. Home-making, domestic issues.
1914-1928 Leo toned. This is your 'greatest generation.' Ask any Leo. Also vaudeville, cinema, acting.
1928-1942 Virgo toned. Sciencyness -- rockets, quantum physics, psychology by Freud, and, especially: Bernais does P.R.
1942-1956 Libra toned. You say baby boomers. Libra is arts, especially music, read: jazz, rock'n'roll, began. Libra also justice: Jackie Robinson, Brown vs. Bd. of Educ., Griswell.
1956-1970 a Scorpio generation. Mostly it's medicine. Open heart surgery began. Dr. Spock (child rearing), Dr. Salk (polio vacc.), drugs. Another Scorpio thing is tattoos.
1970-1984 Sagittarius. eXtreme. Also body mutilation, (a blurry distinction between tattoos and piercings, but it's there). Also Sag does pictures, so movies then and etc. Also, Sag explores far: Went to the moon.
1984-1998 Capricorn. Internationalism. One word: Internet.
1998-2012 Aquarius toned. Eccentrics, iconoclasts, religious zealots on obstinancy. &tc.
For comparatives, the last time Neptune was in Sag was 1802-1816: Lewis and Clark explorers.
In Capricorn 1816-1830 the Monroe Doctrine OOVEERRR western hemisphere.
[That's my Wolfman Jack riff, (if you never heard it, you won't get this written): 'Send FIVEninetyFIVE, CASH, CHeck, or MOney order, to EX EE ARE BEE, ChEWlaVista California BAby, the MIGHTy TenNInety OOVeeRRR lOss ANgeles, H((O))TT Mercy, baby, you GOT to havesome SOUL. Da' Wolfman LOVES ya'BAby.' Rest in peace, Wolfman. You had to be there.]
In Aquarius 1830-1846. Telegraph invented which creates 'the newspaper' from 'the wire service.' Mormonism founded. Ba'hai faith founded. Neptune discovered at 25 degrees Aquarius, returns there for the first time (observed) in 2009.
Neptune in Pisces 1846-1860. I don't know, lots of arguing.
1860-1874 in Aries, the war god.
What goes around comes around. Generation by generation.
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