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There is no question
that I am from
the "Sixties"
I refer to
the sixth decade
of the 20th Century
I am referring to
a time period
when I said
"Wow"
a lot
As opposed to the year
2022
when I say
"Ow"
a lot
Defining a "generation"
is, in truth,
nothing more than journalists
playing jabberwocky
with language
And it is most most likely
American Journalists
that are the guilty party
because they have
an unforgivable fetish
to label everything
Generations,
we are told,
occur every twenty years
The generation
following mine
is called the
"X Generation"
Like "Sixties,"
X is very difficult
to misspell
However,
the people who came of age
twenty years
after the X people
are the MILLENNIALS
They came of age
after the year 2000
But
a very large number
of such people
cannot correctly spell
MILLENNIAL
A word with
three L's +
two N's + two I's
+ two other vowels
with an initial M
is a herculean task to spell
for any human
Therefore,
they need a better name
and exactly one
is available
when you remember
what mega-major event
happened
shortly after
"the year 2000"
[If you cannot remember
what happened
on a balmy Tuesday
in September
of the following year
you would be better off
switching to a blog
that is exclusively
pictures of
funny-looking cats
or cute infants
or recipes for
cannoli]
The mis-named Millennials
are the
9/11-ers
They should be named
for the only day in history
that is remembered by a fraction:
9/11
There is amazing specificity
to naming an entire generation
after an individual day
that everyone
from every other generation
should ooze with jealousy
Naming generations
is primarily
a peculiarity unique
to American culture
Then
—obviously—
the people who came of age
twenty years after
the 9/11-ers
are
most accurately dubbed
the January 6-ers
and they are worth
praying for
🙏🙏
I will posit
—twenty years in advance—
that the
January 6-ers
will be followed by
"the Dust Bin Generation"
because we all might be
reduced to dust
by then
But don't let this prediction
depress you:
kiss somebody in your family
or
go hug a friend
or
make a stranger laugh
as often as possible
just to prove
this prediction wrong
But I am certainly
not wrong about
the
9/11-ers
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© PAUL OLIVERIO ©
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