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All jokes aside, I feel lucky to be a generation that for all intents and purposes has flown under the radar.
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
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Gen X, the meh generation
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Fared way better than the boomers, in that case
I see that as the cause. The boomers held on tight to power, shafting Gen X in many ways. They still got to ride the coat tails of wealth, but were often kept out of top leadership (see federal gov for the premier example). And I’m sure that had a pretty powerful impact on Gen X’s ability to flourish culturally. They were willing to stay in line with boomer culture because they got paid enough.
Millennials were effectively pushed out of the wealth, so they were/are willing to break norms because it never paid off to do everything “right” anyway. And now Gen Z knows everything’s fucked. Godspeed.
I feel like millennials tried to do things the "right" way and then got totally fucked over.
We had and still have our shit together and didn't fuck up anything so bad that fingers get pointed at us...unlike just about every other generation in history.
I think a significant portion of our generation had such prolific access to hard drugs that they're dead already if they didn't have their shit together at least a little.
Whatever
Like, talk to the hand!
Right. Fucking corporate shills. Nothing we could have done would have mattered anyway.
We are generation Eor.
Culturally irrelevant or culturally apathetic?
I don't give two shits about being "relevant" I just get shit done.
no matter what new music format came out, I listened to the same 10 bands on it
Ackshually, I don't listen to Faith No More anymore. So it's the same 9 bands.
Blasphemy. You should take it Easy, because We Care a Lot, and need More!
What an Epic reply.
Wow, this take came From Out of Nowhere
Do not fuck with us. We still know how to read a map, argue in real life, and find information in an encyclopedia.
When the world ends, we are your only hope of figuring anything out.
Millennial here, I can do that, and my knees work.
I'm not irrelevant - look at my irrelevant, trivially easy, by no means unique skills.
I guess those arguing in real life skills of yours don't translate to the Internet - putting disaffected grunts, performative disinterest, and over the top sarcasm into text is difficult.
You know millennial were like teens and young adults when smart phones were invented right? We can mostly do that stuff too.
I'll be the Joel to your Ellie.
None of these are genx specific.
GPS only became standard in the last 10 years, and millennial are in their 40s.
Encyclopedias have informational blurbs, but often lack nuance and aren't how you get subject matter expertise and real-life arguments happen every holiday.
These arguments are about as sensical as saying kids NEED to learn cursive more than they need to learn home key.
The chances of the internet going away are actually pretty slim. Being able to navigate the internet is more important than any of those things.
Like, whatever.
Exactly.
Who? Am I gen x? I watched waynes world on city tv
It is what it is.
According to a few The Fourth Turning videos and articles I've consumed recently, our generational archetype is The Nomad. It made me consider that we seemed aimless and disinterested in a lot of societal nonsense because it was our spiritual approach to coping with this absurd Western reality. Also, we created the concepts of urban nomad and digital nomad. Ultimately, I believe it was always our destiny to wander in a uniquely detached way. We are known more for what we reject than what we embrace. I feel that this is something that the world needed and others could not provide. These same others see us as forgettable because we tried to warn them of their folly and humans are great at ignoring that.
I feel like that's every generation until they give up on it. Humanity is too far gone. This place is never going to be good unless there's a long bloody war against it. But people would rather watch TV and get into pop politics than just loops peoples lives in circles.
I wish at least America would collapse already and maybe humanity could move on to a better direction.
How many more wasted generations are the slave masters going to produce?
Unless you rape and claw at others lives to get ahead life is hell. Such a twisted world. Might as well just have the war if they expect me to treat humanity like shit to make a "life" for myself.
Meh
Wait... Did all of you miss that this was satire?
Is it though?
And....?
Sounds like wishful thinking if you ask me.
Gen X didn't rebel - instead, rebellion was packaged and sold to us by our corporate overlords and we were far too ignorant to even realize it.
Why can't they eat tide pods or be out of touch. Gosh