Generation Gaps
“Another feature of the park’s demographics was the scarcity of Gen-Xers. The protesters seemed to be clustered at extremes of the age spectrum: grizzled veterans of the sixties, and kids who could have been their grandchildren.”
What They’re Wearing at Zuccotti Park // Judith Thurman // 10.14.11
I’ve been calling a lot of people out on their dismissal of occupy wall street over on Google+. What I first thought was a pretty cool platform seems more like a sounding board for middle-class whining. Those “grizzled veterans” legitimized the protests for a lot of people. The kids are still getting a lot of unwarranted criticism over in g+ land though and it’s coming from a depressingly large swath of generation X.
Generation Gaps
“Another feature of the park’s demographics was the scarcity of Gen-Xers. The protesters seemed to be clustered at extremes of the age spectrum: grizzled veterans of the sixties, and kids who could have been their grandchildren.”
What They’re Wearing at Zuccotti Park // Judith Thurman // 10.14.11
I’ve been calling a lot of people out on their dismissal of occupy wall street over on Google+. What I first thought was a pretty cool platform seems more like a sounding board for middle-class whining. Those “grizzled veterans” legitimized the protests for a lot of people. The kids are still getting a lot of unwarranted criticism over in g+ land though and it’s coming from a depressingly large swath of generation X.
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