If only it was just confined to the very young. Lots of people remember some of the idiotic things they said before and just as they came of age to vote. Many people continued to cling to it, however.

Not that Adam Mockler falls prey to this kind of thing, but I watch his feed, and one thing I’ve noticed younger folks like him tend to do, and man, does it make me cringe - it’s when they use a sentence with the phrase “my generation…”. Oof.

I guess it takes a few more years to get some real perspective on just how silly that sounds to talk about your “generation” as if it’s somehow magically different than any other, but one way to try to explain this to someone that is Gen X or younger and has not yet picked up on this: boomers have a song, practically an anthem for the boomers, at least at one point in time: “My Generation”. It even had the lyrics:

“I hope I die before I get old (Talkin’ 'bout my generation)”

LOL. BTW, this is not confined to any given generation, hell, my generation - Gen X - did the same shit in their tweens, teens, twenties, thirties.