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I still see the term 'millennial fashion' and 'the noughties' been thrown around, but these are meaningless terms. Here's an interesting talk by Adam Conover de
by sr2 9y ago
I still see the term 'millennial fashion' and 'the noughties' been thrown around, but these are meaningless terms. Here's an interesting talk by Adam Conover debunking the term millennial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HFwok9SlQQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HFwok9SlQQ
- jamesrcole 9y agodoesn't 'the noughties' just mean 2000-2009 (plus or minus one on either end)?
- sr2 9y agoYeah it does, but it's a corruption of the previous attempts at labeling decades and doesn't really solve the problem of labeling decades. A decade is actually meaningless in terms of what it represents culturally, and since the explosion of The Internet, culture is now smeared and has no basis in a decade anymore. We've reached a post-post-post-post modern era. Rushkoff goes into this more in his 'present shock' theory https://www.theverge.com/2013/3/21/4131130/obsessed-with-now-douglas-rushkoff-and-the-threat-of-present-shock https://www.theverge.com/2013/3/21/4131130/obsessed-with-now...
- jamesrcole 9y agoSometimes you just want to refer to a granular period of time -- e.g. "I was living in Alaska in the noughties" or "It wasn't until the noughties that I decided what I really wanted to do in my career" -- and as far as that goes such a term can be useful.
- sr2 9y agoFair point. I get funny looks when I say something like this though: "I was living in Alaska in the holocene era". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar
- chadgeidel 9y agoYou may be interested in Adam's follow up with Jean Twenge on the "Adam Ruins Everything podcast" http://www.maximumfun.org/adam-ruins-everything/adam-ruins-everything-episode-28-jean-twenge-and-adam-discuss-their-difference http://www.maximumfun.org/adam-ruins-everything/adam-ruins-e...