Tami Wright

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

[Tami Wright @tamibwright]

@ImMeme0 He could sell a painting!

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Hang this in a museum. This is art.

[Finding Vulneraries @FVulneraries]

Fluoroquinolone antibiotics have 7 Black Box Warnings and should be used as last resort only. If I knew this info. 4 years ago, I wouldn’t be disabled and on pallative care today. Don’t end up like me. #floxed #fqtoxicity #cipro #ciprofloxacin #FQAD #chronicillness #disabled

[Tami Wright @tamibwright]

@SimonWoods78 6 fingers?

[Tami Wright @tamibwright]

@RandyWillits @MAVERIC68078049 Agreed. STOP “you’re not ready” posts.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Dr. Ben Carson warns that the media will stop at nothing to elevate Kamala Harris from being “universally disliked” to a “godlike figure.”

TUCKER CARLSON: “What do you think of Kamala Harris?”

DR. BEN CARSON: “I think she is a politician.”

TUCKER CARLSON: “Yeah.”

DR. BEN CARSON: “And she's interested in the accumulation of power and control.”

TUCKER CARLSON: “Do you think she believes in anything?”

DR. BEN CARSON: “I think she believes in government, like most Marxists. Yes, I think she is a Marxist.”

TUCKER CARLSON: “Do you think that she can win?”

DR. BEN CARSON: “Absolutely she can win. This is going to be a great test of the power of the media to take someone who formerly was universally disliked and transform them into a godlike figure, and they will use everything that they have to try to do that. The question is, are the American people smart enough to see through it? And I actually think the American people are smarter than anybody gives them credit for. And I don't think that they are going to be willing to sacrifice what we have in this country, which is what everybody else wants, even though they try to denigrate our country, say we're systemically racist, we're unfair to people. If we were all that bad, why are all these people trying to get in here? Why aren't people trying to get out of here? So we know that we have something that's very good. And I think the American people realize that, and they're not willing to give that up and trade that for something inferior.”

[David Karas @dkaras10]

@ZGunslinger1978 @LaNativePatriot

[Ken Morris @calguard911]

@ZGunslinger1978 @LaNativePatriot https://t.co/A07A2utUa9

[John Garrett, CAS @GJohnGarrett]

@jaykeeper80 @JamieSale I can't put my finger on it

[Tami Wright @tamibwright]

@Kayydz Check his gloves!

[Camster007 @cameronstrafuss]

What do you guys think my gaming https://t.co/qes8TSk9RB name should be?

[Camster007 @cameronstrafuss]

#StandWithRosarioDawson #firekathleenkenedy #CancelDisneyPlus Rosario is the perfect Ashoka! I’m probably done with Disney+ if they fire her too! And they need to fire Kathleen Kennedy. All of use true Star Wars fans need to make Dave Filoni and John Favreau run LucasFilms!

[Tami Wright @tamibwright]

Joe Biden promises to 'cure cancer' if elected president

https://t.co/7NQT038DSP
Why can’t this be first???

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

#Covid-19 READ: US Gov “has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV (Wuhan Institute of Virology) became sick in autumn 2019” + in 2016 Lab began research (“gain of function”) on bat virus (96.2% similar) to COVID ⁦⁦@SecPompeo⁩ https://t.co/6aa9aIPBmx

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!

[Tami Wright @tamibwright]

@atensnut Now we know they CAN’T be voted out or they would have been years ago.