Unpopular Opinions: 10 Wildly Popular Things in 2013 That Everyone Liked But I Didn’t Understand
Millennials: Oh, man. Millennials. Everyone gets really excited about millennials. This is the generation that has inspired an infinite number of trend pieces in the New York Times Styles section. Trend pieces that were then diligently blogged about by people like, well, people like me. Which, just because I think that writing about the media’s fascination with this generation is valid (it is, and has much larger social implications), doesn’t mean that the fascination as such is worthwhile, at least not in the way it’s usually acted out. Because usually, media covers millennials as if they are some sort of sub-species, a sui generis phenomenon that has no relevance to the society that they came from. So, yeah…I’m interested in millennials, I guess, but not in the terrible way that they’re covered in the media. But I seem to stand alone on that one, because most people can’t get enough of reading about (and commenting on) the latest exploits of the “Me Generation.” Ugh.