Urban v's the Commentariat

[8den]

generation ketamine?

Katniss...

Generation Ketamine would be more fun but less functional.

 

[J Ed]

I think I'm going to have to join Generation Ketamine to continue reading the Graunid

 

[rekil]

 

[brogdale]

Fucking hell she was quoted extensively in the guardian today in an article about "Generation K"

I tried to look up what the fuck GenK is supposed to be...and I'm now even more confused. Is this whole cohort supposedly named after a character in a television programme?
FFS

 

[DotCommunist]

it should have all stoped after 'generation x'. I don't mind 'millenials' so much even if its largely used by wanks to write pieces about modern youth culture. It just sounds well futuristic so its fine with me.

 

[Bakunin]

I think I'm going to have to join Generation Ketamine to continue reading the Graunid

Love the comment on that article from ChineseGordon:

'Is this an article in the Guardian? Or a sixteen year olds sociology thesis? Either way both are flops.'

 

[rekil]

Writer and activist Laurie Penny, herself a first-era millennial at the age of 29, agrees. “I think what today’s young people have grasped that my generation didn’t get until our early 20s, is that adults don’t know everything,” she says. “They might be trying their best but they don’t always have your best interests at heart. The current generation really understands that – they’re more politically engaged and they have more sense of community because they’re able to find each other easily thanks to their use of technology.”

Always an "activist." Apart from noting that as usual, she's talking about herself and her lifestylism, where does one start with this load of toilet.

 

[8den]

I tried to look up what the fuck GenK is supposed to be...and I'm now even more confused. Is this whole cohort supposedly named after a character in a television programme?
FFS

It's a movie, apparently she represents "distrust in authority and a strong sense of right and wrong" that define " this generation"

Wankbags (the notion not anyone born after 2001)

 

[equationgirl]

Always an "activist." Apart from noting that as usual, she's talking about herself and her lifestylism, where does one start with this load of toilet.

What a load of shite.

 

[Bakunin]

Always an "activist." Apart from noting that as usual, she's talking about herself and her lifestylism, where does one start with this load of toilet.

Got to keep up the Prada-Meinhof radical chic image, though. All part of building that 'ethical' personal brand, after all.

 

[rekil]

Noreena Hertz is worse.

“In previous generations teenagers did not think in this way. Unlike the first-era millennials [who Hertz classes as those aged between 20 and 30] who grew up believing that the world was their oyster and ‘Yes we can’, this new generation knows the world is an unequal and harsh place.”

 

[butchersapron]

And she should know, being busy actually killing russians in her 20s.

 

[Idris2002]

And she should know, being busy actually killing russians in her 20s.

Before playing Donovan to Naomi Klein's Dylan.

 

[butchersapron]

Before playing Donovan to Naomi Klein's Dylan.

In neither case do i feel the repenthation to be real.

 

[Idris2002]

In neither case do i feel the repenthation to be real.

I don't think "repenthation" is actually a word, old man.

 

[butchersapron]

More nonsensizing i see.

 

[Idris2002]

More nonsensizing i see.

Check your Edward Lear privilege.

 

[The Pale King]

It's a movie, apparently she represents "distrust in authority and a strong sense of right and wrong" that define " this generation"

This is advertising speak, not social theory.

 

[The Pale King]

What is the purpose of the generalisation 'generation'? - like 'nation' or whatever, it flattens out all class, gender etc differences to no good end.

 

[Idris2002]

What is the purpose of the generalisation 'generation'? - like 'nation' or whatever, it flattens out all class, gender etc differences to no good end.

In America at least, the purpose seems to be find some way to talk about American society without mentioning certain awkward facts (something like FJ Turner's concept of the frontier):

Strauss–Howe generational theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[DaveCinzano]

generation ketamine?

Coincidentally whilst visiting family at the weekend, I happened upon a stash of old news clippings, including a 1996 Observer article about... 'The K Generation'.

 

[Idris2002]

Coincidentally whilst visiting family at the weekend, I happened upon a stash of old news clippings, including a 1996 Observer article about... 'The K Generation'.

That's how you party Cinzano style, is it?

 

[rekil]

Wtf is going on at Telesur?

@3:50 mark - he can't be claiming that Marx's first book was Capital can he?

Spoiler

 

[rekil]

I've been enjoying minor thread favourite Mic Wright's content today.



Was he sacked from the Telegraph for plagiarism, or was that it Bloodworth, or both?

 

[DaveCinzano]

That's how you party Cinzano style, is it?

Fuck yeah!

 

[Idris2002]

Fuck yeah!

"How would you like to come back to my place, and view my stash of old news clippings?"

 

[butchersapron]

Wtf is going on at Telesur?

@3:50 mark - he can't be claiming that Marx's first book was Capital can he?

Spoiler

Jesus, if i weren't so shy

 

[butchersapron]

Yes Idris2002 'weren't''

 

[Idris2002]

Yes Idris2002 'weren't''

This is how you party Apron style is it?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

In America at least, the purpose seems to be find some way to talk about American society without mentioning certain awkward facts (something like FJ Turner's concept of the frontier):

Strauss–Howe generational theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I work with/for a lot of people who really believe in the concept of "millennials". I bet they're all namedropping "Generation K". As well as industry trendyism it's a general refusal to look at people as actually being human beings or use any sort of structural analysis to imagine what they might like and what they might do. Everything has to be down to magic generational qualities. Millennials all like social media so let's go on social media! but why do they like social media? who knows??? they're millennials!!! certainly wouldn't have anything to do with access to mobile tech and that our websites are shit and full of ads.

There is of course a whole industry of market analysts who exist to provide theoretical models to managers who don't understand people and don't care, and reassure them that it's okay not to care and treat people like aliens because the analysts have the answers. It doesn't really matter whether they're right or not as the managers they're selling to have all the money anyway. Dumb buzzphrases that look good on powerpoint slides are what you want.