obit for the generation gap March 31, 2006
This story, on the rise of grup culture is very interesting. Read and comment and I’ll be back later with my own thoughts.
PS: I wrote a very similar piece for Salon.
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I subscribe to NY Magazine and read the article.
I could not finish it. However, I did love the photo essay project that accompanied the article both on the cover and inside. That was a 100% more interesting and telling then the article.
The author does not seem to draw much conclusion or analysis as to why we are not looking like “grownups†anymore, or why we still have youthful interests, etc. Even though the interests and tastes remain current and youthful I think, all of the people are financially successful in their own right (excuse me, but acquiring wealth is very grownup)! A certain type of wealth does not demand a change of dress or thinking. Here in NYC some of these “grups†are outright wealthy. Besides No one has dressed like his or her parents in generations! My mother did not even dress like her mom or like her music or keep a religious home like her family and she is 77!
I just read your article from a few years ago and it is more relevant on that topic of Grups then the NY piece!
You got to the meat of what is happening culturally without saying your still trendsetter because you wear $200. jeans and a Brooklyn hoddie!
I think the observation you had about your generation writing about parenting is what has changed the most from other generations. Even more so now because of blogs popularity.
I agree with the comments so far: I didn’t like that article because it didn’t have any substance…so a bunch of 30 something parents are into music and a certain style of dress? So what? I like a lot of the same music mentioned in the article but I certainly cannot afford to dress they way they do or even live the way they do…I also do not feel the need to lump myself into a catagory: that, I agree is quite adolescent. I guess I just didn’t get what the author was trying to say: it seemed to be a backhanded compliment or glorification of his own lifestyle.
Your article discussed things like values and work and economics and had a lot more research behind it not to mention a wider scope…
Just because I am a parent doesn’t mean I give up my own tastes in music or dress…but it does mean my attitude has been alter…I work harder (and play harder, I think) and my priorities have shifted..
I could go on and on but that article was just really lame and repetitive.