Category Archives: Millennials
Debate: Do baby boomers owe millennials an apology?
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on November 15, 2019
- Baby Boomers,Millennials
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Debate broadcast on the Ideas from the Trenches series on CBC Radio, Canada, 8 November 2019. Bruce Cannon Gibney and Jennie Bristow are on opposite sides of the ‘Boomer-blaming’ debate. They are both aware of each other’s work, but had never spoken directly until IDEAS brought them together for this episode. Jennie Bristow says the Boomer […]
‘OK Boomer’
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on November 14, 2019
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Over the past few weeks, the ‘OK Boomer’ meme has gone viral, leading to an offline epidemic of earnest commentary. The whippersnappers of ‘Generation Z’ have taken to TikTok – a social-media platform that seems to be about sharing chill-ironic lip-synching video-selfies – with a flurry of music, artwork, and follow-on merch responding to criticisms […]
The futility of generation wars
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on June 21, 2019
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From the early years of the 21st century, the idea that old people have screwed up the world has become the received wisdom. From economic crisis to environmental catastrophe, from the Brexit vote to the election of Donald Trump, from the lack of affordable housing to the persistence of ‘unaffordable’ pensions, blame for a whole […]
Everyone’s a loser in today’s fabricated generation wars
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on October 5, 2018
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According to doomsayers in policy and media circles, the young have never had it so bad, and the fault lies with their greedy elders. The allegedly enormous, voracious baby boomer generation, living it up on the golf course with the ill-gotten gains from gold-plated pensions and over-valued houses, is in the firing line for […]
Buying off young people
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on May 11, 2018
- Baby Boomers,Millennials,Politics and policy
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As adults, we have some major obligations to our children. We nourish their bodies, helping them through the chaos of toddlerhood and the hormonal hell of their teenage years, so that they grow into physically healthy adults. We nourish their minds, helping them to access the cultural heritage that our society has built up over […]
The promotion of ‘generational equity’ is a divisive pursuit
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on June 23, 2017
- Baby Boomers,Millennials,Politics and policy
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It has become fashionable in policy and media circles to talk about inequality between the generations. We are warned that today’s young people belong to a “jilted generation” (1), or a “stagnation generation” (2), who have been cornered by the economic and political problems of the moment and are unable to buy a house, start a […]
The manipulative flattery of the youth vote is demeaning to young people and bad for politics
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on June 15, 2017
- Millennials,Politics and policy
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Jeremy Corbyn has gained much of the credit for the apparently high youth turnout for the General Election, and fair enough. But let’s not kid ourselves: there are deeper currents at work. The big thing that seems to have propelled young voters back to the ballot box was the EU Referendum of 2016. Contrary to […]
From Brexit to the pensions crisis, how did the Baby Boomers get the blame for everything?
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on February 8, 2017
- Baby Boomers,Millennials
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Amidst the raw outrage that followed the EU referendum vote on 23 June 2016, one generation found itself to be a particular target. ‘Baby boomers, you have already robbed your children of their future. Don’t make it worse by voting for Brexit,’ appealed James Moore in the Independent the day before the vote. ‘“This vote […]
What is a citizen?
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on July 28, 2016
- Millennials
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The debates around the EU referendum vote have revealed a clash of realities. This has been quite disconcerting. Conversations with friends, family members and colleagues who voted differently have invoked, not only differences of opinion, but often completely polarised understandings of the situation we now find ourselves in. This is summed up in the sentiment, […]
The generation wars
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on July 10, 2016
- Baby Boomers,Childhood and adulthood,Millennials
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‘I can’t wait to read it because it’s going to be sick and I’m in it, and then I can give it to my mum so she can stop fucking asking me what I’m thinking all the time.’ So said Kurt, 16, to the journalist Chloe Combi about her new book, Generation Z: Their Voices, Their […]
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