It's almost like declaring everyone born roughly at the same time to be identical, is a desperate attempt to impose conceptual order on an illegible and chaotic universe! Or sumt'n!
Well SOMEBODY had a big bowl of Sartre Flakes™ this morning :P
No, jokes aside-I think that's just as valid and interesting of a response to that sort of a take as any. My generation is pretty vocal about the inherent value of the 'individual'; "we aren't a monolith" etc.
Maybe my knee jerk reaction to the quote above is just a manifestation of that, I'll own it for whatever it is.