Talkin' 'bout my generation

[sabotabby]

Don't tell me I'm not X. I'm on the borderline between X and Y, but my mindset is pure X.

This rant is why.

Generation X is beyond all that bullshit now. It quit smoking and doing coke a long time ago. It has blood pressure issues and is heavier than it would like to be. It might still take some ecstasy, if it knew where to get some. But probably not. Generation X has to be up really early tomorrow morning.

Generation X is tired.

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Generation X is used to disappointments. Generation X knows you didn’t even read the whole thing. It doesn’t want or expect your reblogs; it picked the wrong platform.

Generation X should have posted this to LiveJournal.

So I'm reblogging it on my LiveJournal. Hat tip to symbioid.

Comments

[curgoth]

My first impulse was to launch into a rant about when Gen X is/was; according to the dates Coupland used, my mom was only a couple years shy of Gen X, which seems like it ought to disqualify me.

Then I actually read the post and, generational taxonomy aside, yeah, that is totally my generation right now.

I wanna go see live shows, and go out clubbing. But shit, I'm tired, and that stuff is all fucking late.

[krinndnz.livejournal.com]

That post is like reading a post by Ioz or Twisty Faster that I disagree with. It's great writing, I enjoyed reading it, I'd pass it along to others. I just happen to quite disagree with it, mostly on axes that other people have already covered, but also on the axis of "oh my god Strauss and Howe have your number and I bet you've never fucking read them."

[sabotabby]

Huh. I was a latchkey kid, but there was also quite a bit of middle class pressure on me to do various lessons and such. So I'm still in between.

[sabotabby]

Yes. This. I miss dancing and why can't they make shows earlier?

[sabotabby]

Hahaha.

On an unrelated note, you are reminding me that I need a Transmet icon.

[sabotabby]

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