I’ve said for years that generational labels (and even “age brackets”) are irrelevant to the point of being odious. People use them in order to analyze and categorize millions of people as part of a societal or historical critique. They are single-minded and shallow and lead to single-minded and shallow analyses of society and history.

The truly lost are those who seek to explain history and society and passing trends by forcing tens of millions of individuals into a corral that they can then inspect from the distance of their own alleged independent (and we are to assume, individual, free-from-any-label) perspective. This is the height of arrogance and intellectual laziness, for it is far more exhausting and time-consuming to survey all the hundreds, perhaps thousands of types within each of those fabricated labels (and one could argue that each person is a unique individual and cannot even be fit into a category of types).

Generational labels are a tool that governments, marketers, academics, and Cultural Marxists use to tell us how we should be voting, what we should be buying, how we should be thinking and feeling, and how we should be trying to change our values and undermine our civilization.

They are an absurdly generalized stereotype and a useless lumping together of all people into a group of the same label. Not only is it a logical fallacy (ad hominem group) to criticize or analyze millions of people based upon a fabricated time period that they were born in (as if those years somehow form the individual beyond repair), these labels are an insult to the individual – as if each individual is of the same mind and type as all the others in his or her age “bracket.”

Gertrude Stein was very, very shortsighted, if not fully a vainglorious idiot.

She fatuously proclaimed the WWI “generation” (the 20-somethings in the 1920’s) the “Lost Generation.” Rarely has there been such a fool who thought herself a prophet.

Had she any prophetic capabilities, she would have seen the 20th century as Yeats and a handful of other writers saw it and would have known there would be a couple of “generations” at least far more “lost” than the WWI generation.

But the “lost” that I see are not restricted to having been born within a certain timeframe and are not even of the same age bracket. The lost are in their teens, their twenties, their thirties…all the way up to those in their seventies.

They are lost not because of a time period but because they have either been indoctrinated to reject what time and history have proven to be True and of value, or they have outright rejected those time-tested pursuits and values in order to pursue self interests and to glorify and satisfy the Self.

 

 

 

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