MATT547 - What the Heck Constitutes a Generation These Days?
The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast
Matt Whitman
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody, it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. And I've got a question |
| 0:10.4 | for you. Where does your head go when you hear me say the word generation? Maybe if some |
| 0:17.0 | of you just to be stubborn or being like, hmm, well, I imagine like generating a new |
| 0:20.9 | thing. I see what you're doing there. It's not really where your head went. Your head |
| 0:24.6 | went to like, eras of people being born. Like you got this generation and then they have |
| 0:29.2 | kids and then you got this generation and they have kids and you got this generation. |
| 0:33.3 | And especially like in the last, how long has it been guys 50, 60 years, something like |
| 0:37.7 | that. We've really been into naming our generations and being like, they're all like this. |
| 0:43.0 | This is how the that generation is. And we kind of argue about what name we're going |
| 0:48.0 | to slap on those generations. But right now, I think the breakdown goes like this. The |
| 0:52.6 | lost generation. These are the ones who were alive during World War One. And there's |
| 0:59.3 | a whole bunch of death and sadness and cultural confusion. And so they get a really, really |
| 1:04.7 | sad name. And those are the people who were born like late 1800s up till around 1900s. |
| 1:11.5 | Then the greatest generation. These are the people who were kids during World War One. |
| 1:16.1 | And then went and solved the gigantic modern crisis that culminated in World War Two. |
| 1:24.4 | And then the silent generation. I think these are the people who were just too young to fight |
| 1:28.8 | in World War Two. But came of age while all of that was going on. And then the baby boomers. |
| 1:34.7 | That's of course, and everybody came back and they had gajillions and gajillions of little |
| 1:38.3 | babies. And now we're starting to get into recent enough generations that people started |
| 1:42.5 | to get their hackles up because some people are real mad at baby boomers. You hear a |
| 1:47.1 | lot of complaining about that in certain political camps during certain political seasons. |
| 1:53.8 | And then you got Gen X. And the timeline on this one is kind of wonky. I think I am maybe |
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