A very interesting idea. There do indeed seem to be a number of change agents at work that will mark out the 22ers as an identifiable generation: the Ukraine war; "blighted life chances" from the effects of the covid pandemic; climate change; the delinking of the United States & Europe; and "Increasingly the shots will be called by non-Western powers" to quote from your insightful book, "Homelands". These change agents are sufficiently "big picture" to mean that they will mark out an entire generation, not merely a geographical subgroup.
thank you, sir. very useful article
A very interesting idea. There do indeed seem to be a number of change agents at work that will mark out the 22ers as an identifiable generation: the Ukraine war; "blighted life chances" from the effects of the covid pandemic; climate change; the delinking of the United States & Europe; and "Increasingly the shots will be called by non-Western powers" to quote from your insightful book, "Homelands". These change agents are sufficiently "big picture" to mean that they will mark out an entire generation, not merely a geographical subgroup.