That's one of the saddest things I've ever heard. People can change the world, it's happened within my lifetime. It's rare, it's hard work, and it's seldom something that happens all at once. But the changes to the world between even as recent as 1960 and now are amazing. There's darkness in every heart and every corner of the world. Things are far from perfect, but there's so much good worth protecting and fostering to grow. The greatest lie is that evil will try to corrupt us, recruit us. Evil doesn't want competition. From crooked officials and business to whatever "demons" we envision- they don't want our help. They simply want for good people to do nothing to stop it as evil does what it wants. That's how we aid evil, not by standing as part of a problem but by not standing against it. None of us had a hand in building the world we were born into, but we can shape it, and have a hand in creating a better world for someone else to be born into. Or not. Whatever.
Yeah. Generations didn't really become "hip" until recently. As these things go the media embraced it. But the thing about generations is that they define themselves, they aren't clearly defined by year of birth. The baby boomers were defined as that because they were the huge generation born to post war parents on the soldiers returns home. Gen X was created later because it became clear that children raised in the culture of the time had vastly different outlooks than the boomers. We can't really say where a generation lies until those people start to become old enough to show they are so culturally different than their peers to warrant the distinction. We also can't clearly lump people into those categories. For instance someone born in the late 80's but raised on the culture, technology, and media of the 70's and 80's (like rural or less socially connected places) could easily fit the description of gen X more than millinial. Geography and personalities vary this as well.
Going to toss in Generation Alpha into the mix. It apparently changes every 15 years or so.
1980-1995 Millennials (Gen Y)
1995-2010 Gen Z
2010-Present Gen Alpha
Well that's the other fun part. Since there is no "hard start/end" to a generation, and no single body which regulates and defines a generation- who belongs to what generation by birth year varies by source. The overal generation lines are drawn by agreement between various experts and personalities from combinations of pop culture, media, history, social sciences etc. Because of that they're also moving targets even where agreement exists. For instance the "widely accepted" end of gen X used to be early to mid 1980's as people born earlier were thought to share more with gen X than gen Y. So if you are close to the start or end of any "generation" you can find that over time you may change what generation you are, and certainly by source it can change.
That has nothing to do with my age and I can do it by myself now, thank you very much
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· 6 years ago
As a gen z simply observing those around me I would place it at least 1 in 3 are suffering from depression, its ridiculously high. Now keep in mind im not an expert or anything but I would suggest its far higher then the actual stats show, due to most people just not talking about it.
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· 6 years ago
The problem is there are also a lot of teenagers that don't have it at all but claim to have it due it being a trend. It makes it harder for those actually suffering to come forward. My high school is absolutely full of these attention seekers. It's hard to take anyone seriously.
We worry about the things that we CAN change. We worry about messing up the little we have in life.
Also why 93? That's a very odd number.
1980-1995 Millennials (Gen Y)
1995-2010 Gen Z
2010-Present Gen Alpha