Generation X...the first truly overrated generation since WWII?
If they’re smart, they’ll start trying to figure out how to pass the tab on to Gen-Y.
It won’t be long before this thread turns into boomer bashing free for all.
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If anything, the PC movement created a whole new brand of discrimination: reverse discrimination.
Emo came several years after grunge. Maybe the writer is thinking of “dreampop”.
During the 60’s, my parents were clean cut folks raising a family of four kids. And during the disco craze, I listened to country music, hunted deer, and worked the farm.
And frankly, if we are all going to take on generational identities, the Greatest Generation has a lot to answer for. They introduced socialism on a massive scale, ruined the school systems, apparently raised a bunch of dope heads, and ran up an enormous national debt.
Geez .... Talk about Drama Queens.
Let's get a little historical perspective here.
More people died in Ted Kennedy's car than at 3 Mile Island. The vast majority of the U.S. population was nowhere near Three Mile Island. On the other hand, once upon a time on 1 July 1916, the British suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 dead, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
AIDS has been around during these times, but it could have potentially affected anybody in any generation. All that was needed to prevent it, once the blood donation procedures were tightened up, was to avoid risky conduct. On the other hand, once upon a time, every summer during the first half of the 20th Century, children faced the possible tragedy of polio no matter what they did.
If Tylenol was potentially poisoned, you went to your medicine cabinet, flushed the Tylenol pills down the toilet and then went out and bought a bottle of generic acetaminophen.
If anything, the list of complaints about being traumatized by the Evening News shows that Generation X has grown up with too little adversity.
I think a lot of people missed his message. I am a late stage Boomer and I am very impressed with the productivity of Gen X’ers in the workplace. They are die hard capitalists but they want to be in smaller enterprises where merit does not take a backset to seniority.
I remember about 10 years ago reading that 20% of Gen X’ers had started their own business WHILE IN COLLEGE. They know they are going to be stuck with the entitlements bill from their parents and they bought in to the Reagan vision of growing their way out of the economic mess, and decided to put their heads down and work hard.
This is the message that comes through, that they want to be business owners and leaders, not the group that is left holding the bag when the Boomer mess hits the fan.
Abortion.
The biggest story of Gen X is one they won't write about. But is the most important and fundamental point. Widespread abortion practiced on a whole generation.
Gen X was the first to "benefit" from Roe vs. Wade. The first generation to have 1 out of 4 murdered. Collectively that has a huge impact on a systemic/sociological scale. IMO it has a personal impact on the psyche of the generation. The baby boomers murdered their offsrping.
It's one reason the baby boomers still dominante political discourse today. They culled the herd. The book "Freakonomics" discusses some of the economic/criminology ramifications of the widescale abortion. (but sidesteps the spiritual/moral/social political issues)
From this end it looks like the political mess we are in is directly related to the "sins of the hippie mothers and fathers". Its all connected, mass ilegal immigration to do the jobs our aborted babies can't do. Colleges full of aging hippies who relive their heyday brainwashing and trying to hit on young coeds with little resistance from the culled herd. National Socialist control of every aspect of our lives. etc.
Generation X’ers! It gets late early out here! Provide, provide!
That would explain the unending, tedious, dreary grunge music they spawned........
I’m a generation Xer.
On the subway, a common sight is twentysomethings locked into their Ipods. The women are in flip-flops and the piercing is in all the wrong places. I look at them and think “is it possible that America has produced a generation even dumber and more self-centered than the Xers?”
The sherpas of this economy are anyone who actually pays net taxes and actually raises their children they spawn.
That in itself is now a minority of citizens and the fruits of this decline across the board are ample evident.
The largest taxpayers have always tended to be those at peak earning power....late 40s to mid 60s