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Thursday 23 July 2009
Generation of Sarcasm

But where does this deep reservoir of sarcasm come from? Why does it saturate my generation the way a strong work ethic once saturated the Greatest Generation or the way free-thinking saturated the Boomers? Here’s my best guess: I think our sarcasm is a socially acceptable way for us to vent the mountain of anger we feel.

We are the first generation born after the passage of no-fault-divorce. We come from broken homes.

We are the first generation born after Vietnam and Watergate. We live with a broken government.

We are the first generation raised on cable television and 24 hour advertising. We are suspicious of marketing and spin.

We are the first generation to fight a war on drugs. We are over-medicated and under-achieving.

The anger we carry under the surface can’t stay there. It must find a release. Some of us find very destructive ways to alleviate that pressure. The rest of us let it out by laughing about things previous generations took seriously—government, work, family, relationship, the future. We are a generation that believes nothing is sacred. And if nothing is sacred everything becomes profane.

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    Espero no herir susceptibilidades con esta imagen. Me hizo gracia. Bastante. Tal vez el autor de la cita tenga razón....
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  4. laydownyourburdens reblogged this from pirata and added:
    Guilty as charged.
  5. whyinthehell reblogged this from azspot and added:
    I don’t agree that there’s a direct correlation between nothing being sacred and everything becoming profane (nor do I...
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  7. pie-llama reblogged this from gouachegalatea and added:
    very true. i guess it is how i vent my angers oh woah D8
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  10. gouachegalatea reblogged this from whisperoftheshot and added:
    the best explanation of why I find it so disturbing that the vast majority of teens I know don’t have a creative outlet.
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    i might have to start following this feller… nice words, sir. *nod* …at first i thought this was the speech from Fight...
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    But where does this deep reservoir of sarcasm come from? Why does it saturate my generation the way a strong work ethic...
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    An interesting take on things to be sure. but sarcasm isnt anything new. The previous generations were just as...
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    missworld:lowdunks:notthatkindagay:absurdlakefront: think4yourself: azspot:
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    but sarcasm isnt anything new. The previous generations were just as sarcastic, and were angry at the same amount of...
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    I have been saying something very much along these lines for a while.
  27. pragmatism reblogged this from notthatkindagay and added:
    An interesting take on things to be sure.
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    absurdlakefront:
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    notthatkindagay:absurdlakefront: think4yourself: azspot:
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    think4yourself: azspot:...But where does this deep reservoir of sarcasm come from? Why...
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    Skye Jethani. Go read the whole thing. An azspot reblog.
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