How Are You Feeling?

My photography group is starting a monthly challenge. We submit images on a theme, and they're featured on our website. Just for fun. This month's inaugural theme is how are you feeling?

It's to keep people involved in the group, and it in their attention, and also to help keep the creative juices flowing.

But anyway, here's my image...


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generations

I came across this not long ago. I thought it was interesting. Not entirely true, of course, but I think it bears examining.

People born between 1985 and 1995 are the most unique generation of all time. Here's why? They are in between two generations: the one before the internet and technology took over, and the generation after. The generation before us was old school and believed in working hard. The generation after us believes in working smart.

We saw it all: radio, TV, Mario, Nokia, Nintendo 64, Samsung, iPhone, PS4, Tape, CD, DVD, MIXit, MIG32, Netflix, Snapchat, emojis, virtual reality. The generation before us can be scammed with simple e-mails asking for money and offering love. The generation after us knows it's better to have four e-mail accounts: one for serious stuff, social media, financial transactions and one for experiments for things you don't trust. We are the generation that knows tradition and question, picking from it what makes sense to us. The generation before us knew no questions. The generation after us knows no tradition. We are the gap between the industrial age the internet age. We understand both sides from experience. We should be running the world! The old guys don't understand what's going on anymore. The new guys don't fully understand where what's going on came from.


I think it's interesting because it shows the point in history at which we live, amidst an amazing amount of change. The writer has a point about them being the generation that grew up along with the internet. But then they don't really illustrate what that means.

"believed in working hard... working smart" No generation has a monopoly on those things. The memory we all have of people of decades or a century ago is a bit selective. But you could say that the workers of the 40's, 50's and 60's were the backbone of America, and made it the powerhouse that it was. But there was a certain prosperous environment. And the whole thing was backed by the ones who engineered efficiency - the ones who worked smarter.

To say this generation saw it all is a bit much. I've lived through LP's, cassettes, CD's, mp3's and now streaming services. TV, cable TV and pay-per-view, VCR's and video rentals, DVD players and Netflix through the mail, DVR's, and now streaming. I remember when phones were owned by the phone company. The phone company, which was later dismantled. Remember all the new long distance companies? Prepaid calling cards? Then came the mobile industry. But have I seen it all? Of course not. What about the people who grew up with steam engines and later saw space flight?

To say a generation can be scammed with e-mails is wrong. It's not generational, it's age. But it's not entirely age, because people of all generations can be scammed.

"We are the generation that knows tradition and question, picking from it what makes sense to us. The generation before us knew no questions. The generation after us knows no tradition." Question authority. Where have I heard that before?

"We are the gap between the industrial age the internet age. We understand both sides from experience." Cool, but industry still exists.

"We should be running the world! The old guys don't understand what's going on anymore. The new guys don't fully understand where what's going on came from." You're getting there. Every generation has its turn. You still need to learn where things came from.

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