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Rafe wrote: ↑Sun Oct 24, 2021 9:50 am

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:46 am

Rafe wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 7:12 pm

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 6:34 pm

philip964 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 6:05 pm https://www.intheknow.com/post/kathryn- ... -violence/

Systemic injustice that perpetrates gun violence.

Quoting that article…

Six years ago, Not My Generation was just Fleisher and a single document. But now, the national organization has over 40 individuals across the country.

So…does that mean that it has 41 members?

At least 41! Woo hoo! And it only took six years to reach that milestone!

You’re beginning to see the problem with this article.

But, but... I reported the "over 40 members" thing back in post #4: viewtopic.php?p=1314797#p1314797. What really tripped my trigger (yeah; a pun; I couldn't help myself) was the whole "not my generation" thing and the notion that defunding the police and defunding prisons and incarceration was the solution for the future.

With any luck, current media attention just might, out of association embarrassment, drop the membership roll of the six-year-old "Not My Generation" down below 40. But it's not just inherent snowflakeness. What has me terribly fearful is the state of education and upbringing in this country. From CRT to Cancel Culture rewriting history, I don't think we've ever seen such a politicization of the educational system. Even the Millennials weren't exposed to such lengths of propagandization. The last thing I imagine can be found in K through 12 now--maybe even in many colleges--is the teaching of formal logic and critical thinking. Kids aren't being taught how to think for themselves, how to analyze and evaluate. It's all about feelings and belief in what they hear and are told in the agitprop of social media and the disinformation of thinly disguised political agendas.

Oh, I think Gen Z and Gen A will have plenty of faith. It just won't be the right kind of faith. And the only time they'll skeptically question it is after Facebook tells them they can fly, and they find themselves pondering the veracity of that truism as they plunge 20 stories to the pavement below.

BTW, I can't keep up with which generation moniker is which, so I had to look it up...

• Baby Boomers: born between 1946 and 1964; currently between 57-75 years old (71.6 million in the U.S.)
• Gen X: born between 1965 and 1979/80; currently between 41-56 years old (65.2 million people in the U.S.)
• Gen Y: or Millennials, were born between 1981 and 1994/6; currently between 25 and 40 years old (72.1 million in the U.S.)
  
  • Gen Y.1: 25-29 years old (around 31 million people in the U.S.)
  • Gen Y.2: 29-39 (around 42 million people in the U.S.)
• Gen Z: born between 1997 and 2012; currently between 9 and 24 years old (nearly 68 million in the U.S.)
• Gen A: or Generation Alpha; starts with kids born in 2012 and will continue at least through 2025, maybe later (~48 million people in the U.S.)