Posted on 03/10/2019 4:51:50 PM PDT by LibWhacker
When actor Luke Perry, best known for portraying TV heartthrob Dylan McKay on the ’90s teen drama “Beverly Hills, 90210,” died Monday after suffering a massive stroke, there were the usual public displays of sadness when a public figure leaves us. But his passing was especially painful for people of a certain age.
As one fan expressed on Twitter: “I’m in mourning for Generation X today, for real.”
Perry died at just 52 years old. Which makes him the first Gen X icon to succumb to natural causes. That’s an unsettling reality check to those of us who identify as Gen Xers, the 65 million people born between 1965 and 1980. We’re used to death — we’ve lost plenty of heroes to drugs and suicide, everyone from Kurt Cobain to River Phoenix to Chris Cornell. But Perry is the first to die of something we only expect to happen to old people.
It doesn’t help that Perry’s death came on the heels of a pretty egregious generational slight. A CBS News story in January, which focused on millennials, included an infographic of every generation, from the silent generation (those born between 1925 and ’45) to baby boomers (born between ’46 and ’64) to the post-millennials (born between 1997 and the present). Generation X was conspicuously absent.
“Gen X is definitely having a midlife crisis,” says Matthew Hennessey, 45, author of “Zero Hour for Gen X: How the Last Adult Generation Can Save America from Millennials.”
“It’s not just about growing older. We have this creeping dread that we’re going to be displaced and forgotten.”
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Fake/Lame news posing as reality!
“Entertainers, whose only talent is playing ‘pretend’, try to convince us, that they know what’s best for us.”
Years ago, Robert A. Heinlein tried to warn us about entertainers and professional athletes and what they said!
“The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
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“But there seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously — after all, if an athlete or an entertainer is paid a million or more a year.
He knows he is important … so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be both ignorant and sub literate every time he opens his mouth. (Most of his fans were just as ignorant and unlettered; the disease was/is spreading.)”
Robert A. Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/347280-to-sail-beyond-the-sunset
Entertainers, whose only talent is playing ‘pretend’, try to convince us, that they know what’s best for us.
#NotAFan
#NotACent4U
#BoycottU
Surprise, kids! Up to about age 50 my friends or acquaintances who died mostly died accidental deaths, usually in car accidents. At age 76 I can say lines cross at about that age and more and more of those you know start dying of various illnesses. As of now, among others, I’ve lost three fraternity brothers I went to college with, one a year younger than me, another a year older, and the third my age. Then I look at the entertainers and politicians and those dying off are mostly in my age group. Enjoy your futures.
a good friend of our family died of a myocardial infarct when we were in our late forties He was 54.
I looked at my husband and said, this is the beginning of the deaths ...
He looked at me and knew exactly what I meant.
Steve Jobs
David Bowie
Tom Petty
Just curious. What was that place ?
True that.
I was RAISED by Heroes. Proud of it, too.
“...I can’t believe people look up to these guys....”
I can’t believe people are stupid enough to admit it out loud...
Meanwhile, pre-boomers Keith Richards and Mick Jagger are still with us.
Is it shocking? Not very. If you don't expect it, your head must be in the clouds. What really does catch your attention is the increasing rate of death as the years pile up. A few years ago, maybe five or six were dying every year. Now it's more like 20.
Redic. I’m of that generation and one of my best friends died at 34 from cancer. I doubt Perry was even the first big gen x celeb to die. And even 20 year olds can get strokes, heart attacks, or cancer.
There’s no shortage of stupid.
When I first heard of the new green deal for example, I thought it was satire, or just dem’s trying to be funny and ridiculous.
I’m hearing them harping on that almost everyday, and they’re serious about it. There are enough stupid people that will go along with this. Lines are drawn, there’s only one way out.
I felt really sad because he lived right here but I didn’t actually know him.
When I got married it took a few months for my husband to confess he was addicted to it. Then he got me watching.
“...encourages them to believe we care what they think....”
The sad thing is, some morons do.
But here’s an education for those morons:
Every 19 or 20 year old kid who ever stood a watch in a combat zone in -30 degree Korean winds...
...Who went to the deserts or Iraq and Afghanistan to fight religious psychopaths...
...Who crouched in holes while mortars or artillery rained down on them...
...Who stayed back and fought rear-guard to hold ground so his buddies could retreat...
...Marines who scaled Mount Suribachi on Iwo to plant the flag...
...The pilot of an SBD Dauntless dive bomber who just dropped his 500 pounder on carrier Akagi at Midway, and yelled into the microphone “Arizona, I remember you!”...
...The men at Khe Sahn, holding off the NVA, subjected to long range artillery for weeks...
...Green infantrymen in the Ardennes, using rifles and grenades to try and stop German tanks....
...Airborne troopers jumping into France in the darkness, hours before D-Day...
...Young destroyer sailors fighting off kamikazes off the coast Okinawa, because there IS no place to retreat to...
...The poor bastards on Bataan, holding out for a few precious months against overwhelming Japanese numbers, with ZERO chance of getting help... the men and nurses on Corregidor, getting pounded by artillery day after day...
...The cops and the firemen that rushed into the World Trade Center to pull people out... and never got out...
.. and a myriad of other acts of individual and collective heroism, where lives were lost, and others saved because of those actions.
THOSE ARE HEROES. And the true mark of it is, every one of those people involved would NEVER even remotely think of themselves as “heroes”.
I was raised by Men like that. And they truly were a magnificent generation. My old man and his brothers were 55 feet tall to me. Every one of them, Depression era hardasses and combat vets.
If I had any say in course materials for grade and high schools, one of the books I’d mandate is a book listing EVERY Medal of Honor recipient and their citations for valor.
Sorry for the rant. This article just struck a raw nerve.
“...Lines are drawn, there’s only one way out....”
Indeed.
And they won’t like the results.
Kinda like that episode of Seinfeld when Jerry wouldn’t admit to his girlfriend that he watched Melrose Place. :)
Where did we end up settling after leaving Florida?
Central Kentucky
I’m HS class of ‘61 and haven’t kept up with my old class. The number has to be a lot worse for mine than yours.
Yup. If you want, look it up online and see. I don’t know how they decide which class to track. In my HS, there is only one memorium page every 15 years or so. Probably depends on whether or not someone in that class wants to go to the trouble.
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