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January 12, 2007

Who are you? What do you buy? Where do you want to live? Don't think about it -- Kerry Howley knows the answer.

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|1.12.07 @ 10:53PM|#

Generation Nexters, it turns out, are tolerant, tech-savvy, idealistic, and liberal-leaning.

Tolerant? Ok. Tech-savvy? Whatever. Idealistic? I guess. Liberal-leaning? Define liberal. If she meant what I think she meant then here I part ways with the statist-ish majority in my arbitrarily defined age-group.

And alongside all of their catalogued assumptions, one goes unsaid: None of them will find it strange that they and 42 million peers have been distilled into a press release.

And we all know about assumptions. I'm not going to pretend to speak for the other 39,999,999 "Generation Nexters" (although if you believe bullshit "generation" trend surveys and the people who happily spout them off, we're all the same) but I really hate being lumped into these stupid-ass categories. I suppose I don't find it strange that I've been "distilled into a press release" with my "peers" but I do find it very annoying and condescending.

|1.13.07 @ 9:54AM|#

In my experience, young people are always "liberal leaning", in general, although I would also add that young people are usually liberal/libertarian. They get more conservative as they age.

|1.13.07 @ 7:01PM|#

I think it was an AnarchoCatholic priest who wrote: "If you're not a socialist when you're young, you have no heart. If you're still a socialist when you're old, you have no brain."

That about sums me up.

|1.14.07 @ 2:19AM|#

James,

I think it was originally Mark Twain who said that.

|1.15.07 @ 7:52AM|#

I DK about the, "If you're not a socialist..." quote, but Mark Twain certainly said, "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics."