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Erin E.'s avatar

One of the most impactful qualities that makes for a great parent and a shitty revolutionary: stability. When people inevitably give in to the desire to have a family (a lives-in-the-same-house, multigenerational family, not a framily of comrades) they start to see the merits of middle class life, even lower middle class.

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Justin Charity's avatar

our general discourse about generations could be so 1000x more sensible if we rediscovered the distinction between "generation" and "age."

i long for the days of discourse about "teens," "twenty-somethings," "thirty-somethings," etc. i don't really understand why so many ~culture writers~ dropped those in favor of "Zoomer," "Millennial," "Gen Xer," "Boomer," etc. well, I mean, I do; the latter terms have a powerful sense of branding about them. but still, it's stupid and leads us in analytical circles such as you describe.

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