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> Evan Spiegel? Lucas Duplan? Miley Cyrus? Justin Bieber? Lena Dunham? They're detestable, but they reflect on their producers, the ones who made their careers
by CPLX 12y ago
> Evan Spiegel? Lucas Duplan? Miley Cyrus? Justin Bieber? Lena Dunham? They're detestable, but they reflect on their producers, the ones who made their careers, and not on "our generation" in any meaningful way.
I'm with you otherwise but this line of reasoning is pretty dubious, a sort of counting the hits and not the misses approach.
It doesn't reduce well. If we blame the boomers for "producing" millennials why can't we just turn around and blame the prehistoric Madison Avenue types that produced the boomers[0], and so on and so forth.
[0] http://www.amazon.com/The-Conquest-Cool-Counterculture-Consumerism/dp/0226260127 http://www.amazon.com/The-Conquest-Cool-Counterculture-Consu...
- michaelochurch 12y agoMy point is that a large percentage of the people who are prominent right now are the ones who had lift from the worst of older generations. They're not reflective of the generation as a whole, or what we will be when some of us actually get into real power. Right now, the oldest Millennials are 33. In 15 years, it will be different.
- CPLX 12y agoPerhaps, I suppose we'll have to see. One could also make the argument that these guys who are becoming billionaires will only spawn whole cottage industries of metastasized douchebaggery in 15 years (ala Peter Thiel) but I'll concede it's possible that there's a pending cultural shift that will dwarf all this just over the horizon.