Tom Huston

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Lily Allen & the Gen-Y Condition

December 3, 2009 - 9:14 am

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Many Americans haven’t heard of the young Gen-Y pop singer Lily Allen, but my British compatriots tell me she’s huge in the UK–right up there with that other poster girl for the state of our generation, Amy Winehouse. I discovered her a few months ago and still find her song, “The Fear,” simultaneously highly catchy [...]

A Kosmocentric Generation – Pt. 2

October 7, 2009 - 7:40 pm

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Recently at Merge we asked some of our friends to respond to the question “Why is it so important that our generation awakens to a Kosmocentric perspective?” It was inspiring to get an inbox full of passionate responses! Some people wrote about the freedom of knowing that beyond the postmodern sense of isolation, many [...]

A Kosmocentric Generation – Pt. 1

October 2, 2009 - 2:57 pm

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Recently at Merge we asked some of our friends to respond to the question “Why is it so important that our generation awakens to a Kosmocentric perspective?” It was inspiring to get an inbox full of passionate responses!  Some people wrote about the freedom of knowing that beyond the postmodern sense of isolation, many Gen-Yers [...]

Gen Y Reads Only 9 Minutes a Day

February 26, 2009 - 1:38 pm

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…according to this article from Inter Press Service. But I suspect that doesn’t include reading IMs or txts.
Seduced by TV, the Internet, video games and text messaging, young people are famously reading less and less — 15-to 24-year-olds in the United States spend less than nine minutes a day reading for pleasure, according to 2008 [...]

WWJGD?

February 26, 2009 - 11:51 am

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If you’ve never seen the superb 60 Minutes segment on Generation Y (who writhe about in the deepest, darkest depths of the postmodern swamp) titled “The ‘Millennials’ Are Coming,” it’s definitely worth checking out. And then you can watch this Gen-Y-made spoof of the 60 Minutes report, which poses the question that I’m sure is [...]