Similarities Between Inside In A Society By Tim Celek And Zander

Throughout all of history, we see changes within our society in the realm of beliefs, fashions, family upbringings, education, and countless other things. In recent years, journalists and sociologists have dedicated their time to doing the one thing that we, as humans, hate: categorizing each other. It is a trend that seemingly starts in high school. We sit down at the lunch table and look around to see the jocks, the nerds, theater kids, and the list can go on. We hated it in high school and yet it seems to continue into adulthood. The only difference: instead of having smaller cliques inside of one group of kids, we group all of those kids into a category based loosely on their date of birth.
In Tim Celek and Dieter Zander’s book, “Inside …show more content…
In a sense, they see this as a way for society to force their hand rather than allowing them to spread their wings and soar to heights in which they choose to fly. Celek and Zander state that “they see a name like ‘Busters’ or ‘Twentysomething’ (sic) or ‘Generation X’ as a stamp imposed from without by older members of the media and society.” The busters don’t like this because they contribute a lot of the problems they are facing or having to deal with the very people who are labeling them, the Boomers. So a lot of times, one will see Busters go against things a Baby Boomer proposes just for spite because of emotions spurred on by unjust labeling. This is typically where their attitude comes into …show more content…
The Busters have unbelievably high divorce rates, especially compared to the Boomers. This decline in the family unit is even seen in pop culture:
“Kurt Kobain of the rock band Nirvana was the John Lennon of his generation until he committed suicide with a gunshot blast to the head in 1994. Cobain was a reluctant spokesman. He said he wasn’t trying to speak for anyone but himself in the rage and alienation of his lyrics and said he realized that his problems were probably minor compared to others.’ “I’m a product of a spoiled America...There are so many worse things than divorce. I’ve just been brooding and bellyaching about something I couldn’t have, which is a family, a solid family unit.”
By seeing the rampant decline of the family unit and its inability to stay together, we are able to once again see the importance of learning from our history so as not to repeat it. When we accept the notion that divorce is normal, we accept that having broken and hurting families is also a