Dividing us all along generational lines is compelling, but tricky Thomas Barwick/getty images
Generations
Jean M. Twenge (Simon & Schuster)
ZOOMERS are anxious and attuned to injustice. Millennials are self-obsessed and bad with money. Baby boomers broke the world. As for Generation X, who even remembers them?
These labels are as familiar as an old pair of jeans – regardless of whether they fit. Even though we are continually cautioned against such thinking, reminded that it is reductive, divisive and often based on patchy evidence, generational traits seem too convenient a shorthand to give up. …
