23 May Episode 38: The Media’s Bogus Generation Obsession
Citations Needed | May 23, 2018 | Transcript[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-38-the-medias-bogus-generation-obsession[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Welcome to Citations Needed, a podcast on the media, power, PR and the history of bullshit. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: Thank you so much for joining us, everyone, this week. You can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook: Citations Needed and help us out on Patreon at Citations Needed Podcast. All your support is much appreciated.Adam: Yeah, so today’s show is a topic that we are, I know you and I are fascinated with because it’s so mindbogglingly stupid and yet is very, very ubiquitous and that’s the idea of “generations.” Time and again we hear, its become a cliché at this point: ‘Millennials are killing the housing markets,’ ‘Boomers are bloating the social safety net,’ ‘Gen-Xers are changing the nature of work.’Nima: Whatever that means.Adam: Yeah. We hear stories about one generation or another engaging in some collective act of consumption or moral failing that explicitly or implicitly sort of harms another generation. Right? It’s...