The Generation Game

This topic is based on another of David McWilliams books the Generation Game. The book looks at Ireland and our Society and how it has been turned on its head by a Generation War. Every individual is profiled breaking segments down into the middle aged Jagger generation, the Cash Strapped Jugglers and the Bono Boomers. The middle aged Jagger generation are those people who became enormously rich because of the property boom. The younger generation of Cash Strapped Jugglers are those who are feeling the effect of the credit crunch. Finally the Bono Boomers are Ireland’s first ‘permalescents’ – a permanently adolescent generation, too young to be old and too old to be hip. The book although somewhat similar to his other (the Popes Children) is an enjoyable read and it is generally emphasizing that the prosperity of Ireland’s future generations is based on harnessing that of the previous generations.