Colonel - you've hit the nail on the head. Everytime Qam1 submits one of these Gen-X posts, I feel as though I am being urged to justify my existence or apologize. The "Generation" labels are completely artificial - just another brand of kool-aid that the discontented are all too eager to drink. Don't generalize. And don't pretend it isn't generalization when you excuse the good Boomers from the sins of the bad Boomers. Some of the most selfish people I have ever known are Boomers - the rest are X'ers, and from the Greatest and Silent generations.
You ain't kidding - see post #89. LOL...
Kool Aid is the right description. It strikes me as the herd mentality at work. A herd of sheep waiting for the next fleecing. The sad thing is that this mindset produced a lot of the ills of the 60s that they accuse the whole so-called boomer generation of having- "I'm special" "Look at me" The whole mindset that says human nature changed in 1965, or 1964 or whenever they now say that the generations changed. In a world where we have seen in the last few days another example of pure evil, why would anyone wish to needlessly divide us over superficial and invalid distinctions?