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Talkin' 'bout my generation
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.
So I'm reblogging it on my LiveJournal. Hat tip to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
symbioid.
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.
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I sometimes find the emphasis on Kurt Cobain a little myopic since, honestly, more of my peers listened to Madonna than Nirvana. Listening to indie rock wasn't a rejection, that I could recall, of my parents and authority figures, but of my Color Me Badd loving classmates.
I don't personally have any beefs with the Millennials -- I work with three and they're all smart, talented and generally optimistic people. They don't speak in lolcat or mystify me with their fast adoption of technology. (I should say I think it's unfair to suggest Gen Xers aren't technology adopters like Millennials, since we were often accused of being too technophilic in the 90s. Oh no, we like computers and video games and the internet. WHERE IS THE HUMAN TOUCH? To recast Xers as the clueless parents who can't make the VCR stop blinking 12:00 is lazy and inaccurate.)
Boomers, though... sheesh. They weren't necessarily parents to Xers (even if they technically were) so much as cruel older brothers. When they weren't stomping around yelling about how great they are, they'd be slapping you in the face with your own hand and demanding you stop hitting yourself. Then they'd take your lunch money, use it to buy Twinkies, tell you they're going to share it, then shout "Psyche!" and force you to watch them eat both cakes.
I know I rant about them all the time, but they really need to... gah. I mean, look at Forrest Gump. That movie speaks the Boomer mythos louder than anything else I've ever seen: We changed the world just by EXISTING, man! Didn't fight? Didn't march? Didn't speak up? Didn't so much as think a progressive thought? Bravo anyway, Boomers.
The generation before them (and the one before that) did a pretty good job of fucking things up, too, though, so I shouldn't forget that. But they weren't trying to make you think they were cleaning up the world while taking a massive dump on it. They were just ignorant assholes.
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What bothers me is being labelled the Generation of Suck With Nothing to Offer, and you are 100% right about the distressed type.
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I never liked these messages:
"Protestsing? What are you protesting? Your protests are hollow. We already FIXED everything, kids. Gee, you're so politically apathetic!"
"Looking for a job? Ha ha, good luck, we have all the good ones, and we're NEVER going to retire! Just to make it more interesting, we voted for Reagan and supported his cuts to higher education grants. Gee, you're a bunch of unambitious slackers. What gives?"
"Ha ha, no sexual revolution for you, unless you use a condom! Man, all that 'free love' was so great! Too bad you missed out, and you're all depressed and anxious and kinky freaks, to boot. Oh, can you tell the Millennials to abstain? We insist upon it."
"I feel sorry for you latchkey kids. You are deprived. My mother was always at home, and she baked us cookies every day! It was a wonderful childhood. Welp, gotta go to my high-paying job! I'll be home in about 70 hours."
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