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[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

I’ve heard 20. Wikipedia says 20-30.

14 seems short.

It’s all kind of silly since human reproduction is continuous.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

It's a bit like the notions of pre-modern, modern, and post-modern. The change was continuous over a long period of time, but I think there are commonalities of thought and experience that tie generations together. Pearl Harbor, the Vietnam War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, 9/11; all of those influenced people of different ages at the time in different ways, compounding on each other.

The perspective of someone who was 18 on 9/11/2001 was different from someone who was 35, versus someone who was 50, versus someone who was 80. My kids, for example, have never known the WTC as anything other than an attack site, and recoiled when the NYC skyline was shown during New Year's Rockin' Eve 1999.

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Exactly.

It’s that shift in perspective and experience that defines a generation and there are generation-bounding events like 9/11. But the period of time is not precise, and generally much longer than 14 years.

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Continuous? Then why do i keep releasing a series of humo-eggs every 20 years?

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Have you tried not doing that?

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Wait why wouldn't I?

Should I not be?

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Nah it's whatever, you do you boo

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