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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.
I'm not even supposed to be here today!
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?
I think you’ve got most of that right, except that Gen-X felt ignored and overlooked and so didn’t really have a rebellion. Gen-X was the “get stuff done in the background while others said you weren’t ready and gave the accolades to others” generation. There weren’t enough of us to make a difference with protests.
Yep. We were the most independent generation of the 1900s to today.
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.
1968 gen Xer here.
Not my experience at all. Boomers were way different.
The biggest was in our refusal to be caged. Most gen person are far more independent them boomers were, even given tech disadvantages. This Is because the size of family units fell and became less dependent on each other.
This led to a generation that, for the first time, didn't NEED to rely so heavily on each other, and we embraced that in a way that won't be seen again in a awhile.
That scared the boomers because THEY weren't able to control us as their parents did.
And thus the de-evolution from hippy to facist.
I think your alls love affair with conspiracy theory culture is why so many of you have become fascist. I have seen this with my own parents (one of them being the same age as you).
What the he'll are youvtalking about? Millennial and boomers are far more fascist. We want be left the fuck alone. And BTW all the cannon ship didn't exist back then. We had a few things ,ufos, Kennedy, dr.king
But this internet conspiracy age is squarelybon the millennial shoulders. They invented them, used sales tactics and tech to drown the gullible in bullshit, and voila.
Gen xers created your computers, you spread the garbage.
And I notice you said "you alls" so you're NOT gen see as you claimed. We don't use that phrase either.
So I'm smelling deception on your end.
Edit And you deleted it to make it seem as you just replied lol.
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
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...
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.
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.
Paywall
There should be an archive link in the body of the post to bypass the wall.