Generational Cohorts and Vicarious Living

Nostalgia, jealousy, and current crises

More often than not, generational labels get in the way of clear thinking. The tens of millions of individuals born in the United States between 1946 and 1964 do not all share the same characteristics or even the same perspective. Any attempt to generalize about the Baby Boomer generational cohort quickly falls into patterns of reasoning that don’t diff…