Memoirs from 2034 (#3)
Just what is a generation anyway? Historically in America, and even now most of the American areas, average time between a mother and child averages fifteen years. But that’s not the standard for a ‘generation’. I mean, now we have the tweens and twenners, but that makes sense. That at least tags you for the decade in which you were born. But then? What were they doing back then and why was everything all so arbitrary?
Look it up. Think about it. Generational naming was only one of the many arbitrary things. Examples? Take prices across America. The same item could sell for wildly different amounts depending on where you were. And it wasn’t like they were factoring in that the thing was scarce, only being produced in one place and shipped everywhere else. Okay, take milk, for example. On the very same day in 2012 a gallon of milk could cost 4.99 in L.A., but sell for 2.89 in Wisconsin. It’s not like they didn’t have cows in both places. Why the difference?
I wonder often about simple, single things and what the folks in 2012 were thinking, what they considered to be actually important, back then.