The Latest Generation

Ep. 60 - Homelanders


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The Homeland generation was born starting in 2005 - but what does it mean? Why Homeland? And are they really quite what Strauss & Howe predicted they would be? 

It does seem about right.

That tweet I mentioned is here:

https://twitter.com/generationalize/status/1432384151143944197?s=20

There's no separate Wikipedia entry for The Rocket Man, and in fact my copy is in R is For Rocket, but Wikipedia says it was first published in The Illustrated Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man

http://afterthemillennials.com/its-official-the-white-house-calls-them-homeland-generation/

Couldn't find a way to include this but: The Rocket Man is set in, well, right about now, since the titular character was  “a boy in 1997” and the narrator is mentioned as being fourteen years old, so it’d be quite reasonable to think that he was born about ten years after the father was a boy, and …yeah. It’s not a tumultuous world, so would seem to be after a Crisis like we have now.

Also, the story is only 10 pages long. It fits a lot in there.

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