Generational differences

This is a long article but I found the bits I have read so far by cherry picking really interesting 

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2026/mar/08/did-baby-boomers-eat-all-pies-john-lanchester-truth-generation-gap

especially this

'For one thing, generational divisions aren’t what they were. People my age and people my parents’ age wore different clothes, listened to different music, ate different food, lived differently and had totally different attitudes to questions of gender and sexuality. The defining experience of their youth was the second world war. The defining experience of ours was the fall of the Berlin Wall. They had different expectations about material comfort. Neither of my parents were brought up in houses with running water or electricity. The equivalent divides between generations we’re experiencing now are much smaller. We like the same clothes, music and food, and have a similar sense of what to expect from the basic material amenities of life. The one area where there is a particular division is around gender identity – and that, I think, is one reason that debate is particularly heated. It’s not that the two generations don’t agree about anything. It’s that we agree about pretty much everything else'

Parents
  • Late boomer here. I remember from s very eyrly age my mother telling me how lucky we were compared to her, havong been born in the Great Depression, then living through the war.

    My parents were young during the 50s and 60s though, and never had it so good. I graduated in the Thatcher years, and graduate unemployment was hitherto unheard of..

    Now I wonder, as I did in the 80's, alongside many othsrs, when the Bomb was a sword of Damocles over everyone's head, whether that sword really is poised to fall now. 

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  • Late boomer here. I remember from s very eyrly age my mother telling me how lucky we were compared to her, havong been born in the Great Depression, then living through the war.

    My parents were young during the 50s and 60s though, and never had it so good. I graduated in the Thatcher years, and graduate unemployment was hitherto unheard of..

    Now I wonder, as I did in the 80's, alongside many othsrs, when the Bomb was a sword of Damocles over everyone's head, whether that sword really is poised to fall now. 

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