The Millennial Epoch

Separate from the millennial age cohort, and much like the volta in poetry, an epoch references a turn in history characterized by dramatic change in perspective. The millennial epoch is defined by the experience of living through overlapping technological, political, economic, and cultural transformations.

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In 2004, a well known cult-classic called Mean Girls graced our screens with the above quote. Fittingly, the characters in the movie are the eldest of an age cohort, dubbed Millennials by pop-sociologists Neil Howe and William Strauss, that came of age at the turn of the millennium. The lives of these individuals, and those succeeding them, have been dictated by a confluence of sociopolitical and -economic events. Such as:

More events, more context, more connections to come.