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BMG mini-census w/poll

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There was a recent post and discussion about activism among 30-somethings. It got me to wondering; what's the age breakdown among regulars here?

This can be done anonymously, right? I was taught never to ask the age of a lady.

I have no motives other than curiosity.

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  2. for how long have “you” been checked in?

     

    Obviously this isn't so easy to measure and we each have our own opinions about just what it means to be checked in [volunteer for campaigns, blog, attend rallys and protests, donate money to campaigns, yadda yadda].  Also, someone who's 25 can't have been checked in for much more than 10 years, so age does play a role.

     

    Maybe this will be the second question in a series… 

    • to quantify, as i assume i am not alone in having checked in and out and in again many times throughout my life so far.

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      perhaps another, related question to ask would be what prompted you to check in/out?

        • Doug Coupland wrote a book “Generation X” in the late 80's or early 90s expressing the angst of those who graduated into the 1990 recession.  Coupland coined the term “McJob.”

           Another amusing book, 13th Gen attempted to analyze the cycle of generations across history.  The upshot was that “Gex X” had the misfortune of following the Baby Boom, whose narcissistic extreme self indulgence and extreme numbers were like a plague of locusts leaving a barren moonscape for us in all things (Social Security?  Pay up to support the boom, get no benefits as the program finally collapses as you near retirement age; Sex?  From sexual revolution and “shaking hands” in the 60s and 70s to getting and dying from a horrible and terrifying disease in the 80s. Etc.)

          We were supposed to be the first generation that did not surpass the living standard of our parents.

          Of course, then the 1990s boom happened, and made all of that pessimism seem pretty darn stupid.

          • I intended to send you here.

             Anyway, the book is filled with amusing pop-culture factiods, like the fact that, unlike for generations before or since, kids were very much out of fashion when we were kids; the proliferation of demon child movies in the early 70s, how many of us whose parents remarried 3 or four times wound up with less of the traditional family support and so were forced to stand up on our own two feet sooner.  Also, it explains, to a limited degree, Gex X's intense disdain for boomer-style chanting protests and for politics generally, which has been lamented here.

          • Of course, then the 1990s boom happened, and made all of that pessimism seem pretty darn stupid.

            For me the '90s just reinforced a lot of the lessons learned in the '80s.

            • … and thinking about how monumentally unassailable the deficit and the debt were.  I remember thinking I have no hope of doing as well as my parents.  I remember thinking “How the hell am I supposed to live in a decent economy after 12 years of people who had spent the more money than anyone else in the history of the world?”

              You know what the 90's taught me?  It was possible, thanks to Bill Clinton and Robert Rubin.

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