The "Generation" That Has The WRONG NAME

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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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