Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring
by OfSanguineFire on Sunday August 20, 2023 @07:35AM
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> Citations needed, really.
Here you go.[0][1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_boomer
[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/baby-boome...
Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring
by watwut on Sunday August 20, 2023 @08:12AM
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I do not think this proves that "Young people’s contempt for the now-elderly generation (they’re Boomers) has reached incredible heights." Like at all. Especially since it popularity was an actual response to members of older generation bashing younger one. As in, it was literal response to that and relatively rarely used outside of context of the older people complaining about younger ones.
I do not see younger generation rejecting everything that comes from older people, definitely not much more then what our generations or the one before seemed to do.
Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring
by OfSanguineFire on Sunday August 20, 2023 @08:29AM
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Your English and your post history suggests that you are not from the Anglophone world. The generational tension I was talking about is a feature of it, I do not claim that it exists in the same way elsewhere.
Citations needed, really. While young people do not look at old with awe or submissively, claim that they somehow uniquely or unusually look down at us seems wrong to me. And also, the little that exists seems to me more of reactive to hostility some in older generation seems to have quite openly.