Justice for Gen X: The 'whatever' generation is 'whatever' about being overlooked
Justice for Gen X: The 'whatever' generation is 'whatever' about being overlooked
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An apology to Gen X
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Business Insider has been making click bait for over a decade. The only people in Gen X that care about this are losers. Reality would be damn near no one in Gen X thinking about it and also damn near no one knowing when gen x, or any gen, starts and ends
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Have to agree. Only time I think about this stuff, is when I see it posted online. And even then it zips in and out of my head because... who cares? Only most miserable of people would associate when you were born with a personality type, a political leaning, or well, anything.
We still see all this "boomers are awful" when theres millennials walking around being just as horrible. Almost like being an asshole or not wasnt linked to your birth year or something...
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I think about it when I pass my old high school. They have this fence that has these posters for all the high schools accolades. Teams going to state and winning competitions and some other type of award or honors. There are a ton except none from the eighties. There is this gap and then it starts back up. Somethin was up with that time.
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Time can be better spent than entertaining categorical thinking about generations. The only thing these groups have in common is age range. I know because I was born on the year of the tiger.
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Paywall
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There should be an archive link in the body of the post to bypass the wall.
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Fuck Gen X.
Sincerely,
My millennial ass.
P.S. Fuck Gen Z as well.
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Gen X:
Whatever dude
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Xellennial here. Please overlook us. Being “the middle child of history” (remember that quote?) does us just fine.
Nothing to see here. Go bother gen Z.
The only thing I get irked by is gen z mistaking us for boomers. Despite general world view etc. being so obviously different.
You're right. Our grandparents where actually kinda cool when they where younger pushing free love, good drugs, and protesting against the war in Vietnam.
Say what you will, but that's the generation that got most of the civil rights movements really in gear. You dont get a Kent State without pissing off the powers that be. They did some cool shit, hell they did fucking stonewall.
Unfortunately most of that generations soul got bought and sold some time in the 80's.
Gen X's symbol of youthful rebellion, on the other hand, was a cable TV channel owned and operated by Viacom for the express purpose of advertising music which had been prepackaged by one of three major record labels.
I honestly think Gen X's rebellion was a fake one sold by their parents to keep any actual progress from being made. That's why we didn't see any big protests after the 70s until occupy wallstreet. Maybe the anti-war stuff during the early 00's, but early mellenials where in college by then, so I think its safe to hand that to them too.
Then again generational shit should be taken with a grain of salt and all that, but as an early Gen-Z cusper, would it be harsh to call you guys the poser generation?
Early Gen X (born late 60s-early 70s) are not that dissimilar to Boomers at least where I live including my parents. One difference I see is they like hip hop and rap music more.