'79 - feel more like a Y than an X.
But isn't the idea that we can draw hard-lines around generations the very problem here?
It's these hard-line definitions that enable articles like the WSJ one to exist in the first place.
Change happens gradually and continually, but if you sample it at a frequency of ~20 years then you see all sorts of artifacts.
A lot of times what makes these lines be drawn is generation gaps. They supposedly make lines possible. Bob Dylan's generations' message to the preceding . The Clash to Dylan's. I don't think us Ys have a clear line with the previous generation. Maybe we'll find it at some point, but the pattern hasn't changed so much.
I imagine a lot of that is written as history is written, not based entirely in reality.
Anyway, I get this feeling that these 'generations' that can be characterised are not inevitable & constant. There were just a few that were.
Change happens gradually and continually, but if you sample it at a frequency of ~20 years then you see all sorts of artifacts.