It's funny how powerful that chasm feels when you're on the down side of it. I remember going to a friend's birthday party; ended up we had two boomers and two gen-x-ers partying together. And o! the frustration of trying to talk to one another across that divide.
I've had similar problems with my best friend Christopher. He's not a lot younger than I am, but it's enough. When it's just the two of us, we manage fine. However, when he's with his friends, I become frustrated. The conversation is antsy, jumpy, incoherent, weird. Christopher says, "Hey, we're the television generation. We talk like we've all got a tv remote and we're flipping channels." He also said that he very much likes that style and structure of conversation. The way particular ideas come back around, and layer over the things that have been spoken about in between can be a work of art. He says that there's a lot that can be implied by the timing and pacing -- timing and pacing I can't parse. Me, I tell stories, and I tell the whole story at once. Christopher's friends are short attention span theatre. They find me to be extremely boring.
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Date: 2003-03-30 07:03 pm (UTC)I've had similar problems with my best friend Christopher. He's not a lot younger than I am, but it's enough. When it's just the two of us, we manage fine. However, when he's with his friends, I become frustrated. The conversation is antsy, jumpy, incoherent, weird. Christopher says, "Hey, we're the television generation. We talk like we've all got a tv remote and we're flipping channels." He also said that he very much likes that style and structure of conversation. The way particular ideas come back around, and layer over the things that have been spoken about in between can be a work of art. He says that there's a lot that can be implied by the timing and pacing -- timing and pacing I can't parse. Me, I tell stories, and I tell the whole story at once. Christopher's friends are short attention span theatre. They find me to be extremely boring.