Replay: Episode 32 Generational Divide (2017)

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Douglas Coupland (author: Generation X) wrote, "The boomer generation is the one that unselfconscientiously uses pronoun 'We' when describing itself. X, Y and [generations] beyond flee the room the moment someone says, 'We.'"

"It's a WE program" is heard in a Zoom rectangle from one generation; "Do not include ME in your WE." replies the next generation, somewhere else on the screen.
 
Lately I have learned... maybe all over again, that people line up pretty fast on one side or the other of the debate as to "should recovery meetings be inclusive with 'we' language or should we each speak for ourselves only in first person language."  

It's been hotly debated on Zoom meetings lately. 

Anyhow; this is an episode about Generations, Generations Gaps and how we preserve the familiar to not disenfranchise an older recovery generation while speaking a contemporary vernacular to include today's newcomer to clean and sober life?

We... I mean I ... put current ages to generations and because this show first aired last decade and pre-pandemic (what did we know back then?) here's 2022 age ranges for generations:

• Gen Z (1998 - 2012) are 10 to 25 years-old
• Millennials (1981 - 1997) are 26 to 41 years-old
• Gen X (1965 to 1980) are 42 to 56 years of age
• Baby Boomers (1946 to 1964) are 58 to 76 years of age
• Silent Generation (1928 to 1945) are 77 years-old or older.

Two generations that make up our founders are Bill and Bob and Jim B's gen: Lost Generation born between 1883 and 1900, and The Greatest Gen, from 1901 to 1927).

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