JIGSAW GENS
Magnas — A Legacy of Inversion & Introspection
The Magnas (“Bifocals” or “Lobster Shells”) rerouted cultural shifts imposed upon them by foreign actors and outside forces
The importance of generational literacy is to understand the struggles of those older than us…while considering the challenges that those younger than us will face. This spectrum is fluid across history — always changing, with plenty of grey areas where the lines between cohorts get blurred. Understanding this has served as a major bulwark of my “Jigsaw Gens” series — a collection of historical sketches representing what the various generations throughout American history have endured.
At the beginning of this anthology, I divided up the history of the Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries into these eight categories…
Hemingrebels | GI-Gens | Traditionalists | Baby Boomers
GenXers | Millennials | Zoomers | Alphas
Prior to the 1880s, less-defined American generations were born. When looking at how historical events shaped their childhood, adolescence, and adulthood — I’ve been clustering them into cohorts spanning the previous 3–4 centuries. So far, I’ve identified these thirteen generations:
