They have a point...

Because it is an effective distraction from the actual problem which is class war.

Billionaires and their followers are the problem, not people of a certain age, gender, skin colour etc. etc.

Well, corporations created generational division to blame what corporations were doing.

Corporations created anti-union sentiment for obvious reasons.

Before the Internet it was a bigger deal bc culture was different but yeah basically just a distraction

People like to have identities tho and like for this person maybe being GenX means something. Like distrust of systems

There will always be the need to have some societal construct for the grouping of people. People in the same generation were generally subjected to similar living conditions at similar points of their life so it makes it a valid grouping.

If not generations, then what? There is also sexual orientations, political beliefs, race… the list goes on.

Realistically you can’t have 8 billion plus classifications for every distinct person, so at some point there needs to be a generally agreed upon roll up.

Love the rhetorical question clarification

Because ideologies are a team sport now. And people need to feel like they’re part of something- regardless of its relevance.

Nihilism isn't witty or crafty.

South Park is a real grabbag, but they really hit the mark with Gen X yankees dismissing green energy and environmentalism for being "gay (pejorative)". You could update that same episode and only need to swap out the last line for "that sounds woke"

You can trust unions. They're there to make money and acting in your interest is acting in their best interest.

While you can trust science overall, there's a hell of a lot of capitalism in there, muddying the water. Well-reviewed studies are generally pretty safe.

There is nothing inherently trustworthy or untrustworthy about socialism; it's an economic and political philosophy that is only as trustworthy as the people implementing and operating within it.

You cannot trust anything on the internet, including Wikipedia or even this very post. There are actors with an agenda that can make every article better or worse. There is no verifiable truth, only facts through lenses, and Wiki, being a moderated system, is as fallible as anything else. Much like socialism, it is at least designed to make it more fair.

They haven't just contributed, Genx is the anti-vaccine generation.

Boomers and silent generation remember what diseases were like and get their vaccines.

Millienals are more anti-vaccine than boomers or silent generation but far less than gen-x.

Gen-x has never held itself accountable. They are worse than boomers in so many ways and some of their stupid has leaked into the infected the thinking of millennial and even gen-z generations.

Has anyone ever told you that “lots” isn’t “all”?

It's strange because the vast majority of my GenX in all my circles are super left. But I'm a suburban guy with most of my acquaintances in high literacy areas.

Once you get outside of the suburbs, things change. I could see gen-X going full conspiracy theorist, then double-thinking as propaganda feeds them ideas.

and Gen Z is trending in their direction, we're fucked.

Our youngest President (by a 15 year margin!) was Barack Obama who was a late Baby Boomer. If/when Trump does, Vance will become the first Millenial president.

Meanwhile in Congress, Gen X only this year achieved a plurality in the House at 41% (versus Boomers at 39% and Millenials at 15%). In the Senate, at 28% we’re still far behind the Boomers with their 61% and Millenials are far behind at only 5%.

I’m honestly appalled at how many of us Gen Xers broke for Trump (even more than Boomers), but with our smaller numbers (65 million vs 74 million Millenials), we weren’t enough to push him over the finish line alone.

Sorry my generation hasn’t done more to make the world a better place, but honestly we’re getting fucked more than we are doing the fucking.

Got any examples of millennials trying to warn us “fucks” for years?? Because I don’t recall any millennials I know trying to warn anyone any more than my generation was.

Additionally, I don’t recall ever having people prefix their discussions with:

“So, I’m a [generarion] and here’s my take!”

So I’d imagine you’d be hard-pressed to find any evidence what to support this claim.

And lastly stop with the us vs them bullshit. We don’t need to be divided any more than we already are. Generational behavior isn’t as prominent as you think.

Part of that attitude was that Gen X never had power. The Boomers have been clinging onto power since Gen X was in high school. Gen X could have fought for power, but would it really have changed anything?

The biggest fear that Gen X has is that their parents might disapprove of them.

Let me tell you about how watching the X-Files as a kid made me interested in science - AND the occult!

So do genxers.....

I'm elder millennial and remember when gasoline switched from leaded to unleaded. I think GenX got exposed to the historical maximum of leaded gas fumes (in the US)

Gen Z has entered the chat. They’re more puritan than boomers

So apparently you haven't looked at demographic trends over the last ten years because shockingly middle aged dudes have become the progressives among males. Not that they've moved to the left, but young men have swung so far to the right, it's terrifying.

I think they're all at least fifty by now. I'm in the middle of the millennial years and I'm pushing 40.

Whatever

That's just a side effect from the belief that nothing important was fixable because the interests that kept them that way were too entrenched.

It's more apathy than complacency, after years of our cynicism being fully vindicated. A cynic is just a disappointed optimist.

I had a difficult time understanding what you mean but I definitely agree that we need to stop focusing on the generational stuff. It’s capitalists vs normal people and if we don’t fight back against that core, from social democracy and democratic socialism on through, the neoliberal crisis will only worsen.

I miss when we used to talk about things as decades instead of generations. After the 90s it became Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, Gen Alpha...

And yet you’re too young to have experienced what it was like when the very concept of the teenager was created. You wanna talk about a shift?

Like with hippy boomers, some are still counter culture in X. But more have bought into capitalism in some fashion than being against it.

Yeah, we know, you move back home after every one.

*in the US.

Remarkably, there were births outside the US between 1965 and 1980