Gex X Ages

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Wow, so much of this speaks to me. There is some that does not, but overall, this feels very dead-on to me.

These two points really jumped out for me.

"We don’t have that security – the illusion of knowing that everything was going to be all right. But Gen X always had that feeling that everything wasn’t going to be all right.”

The flashy car isn’t important, but building that calm, peaceful fort is. “Xers are keeping stores like Pottery Barn and Architectural Hardware solvent.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/11/generation_x_gets_really_old_how_do_slackers_have_a_midlife_crisis/

 

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"If we’re going to make the country a better place, more suited to our values, we need to do it ourselves. Middle age is, if nothing else, time to shift out of second gear. If we can’t take a break from the urban farms, put down the knitting and home brewing equipment, and step into politics, business and other kinds of leadership, we’ll deserve our reputation as the generation that never quite showed up. Rather than the sound of silence, we should be hearing our voices – and they should be loud and angry."

I agree with this very much. I really had never grasped that my own personal trajectory was more generational. I've done everything later than you're supposed to. The thing is, you finally get here, and then, you know, you can be stricken down just when you hit your stride/prime. But that's individually...it will be far more interesting to see what we're going to do generationally now.

 

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I also don't have any generational grudges, and I don't see any discussed here. Maybe that is a hallmark of Gen X as well. I have no grudge against the boomers, and I love watching the millennials and seeing what they are going to do. I have no problem with either generation at all. And don't really care what their problems are with Gen X. I think I dismiss boomer grudges against us with a "yeah yeah, I know, get off your lawn" and millennial grudges I shrug off as the hubris of youth.

 

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Wow, so much of this speaks to me. There is some that does not, but overall, this feels very dead-on to me.

These two points really jumped out for me.

"We don’t have that security – the illusion of knowing that everything was going to be all right. But Gen X always had that feeling that everything wasn’t going to be all right.”

The flashy car isn’t important, but building that calm, peaceful fort is. “Xers are keeping stores like Pottery Barn and Architectural Hardware solvent.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/11/gen..._old_how_do_slackers_have_ a_midlife_crisis/

The line about everything not being all right reminds me of this song by the great, Mose Allison, from 1962!

Mose Allison – I Don't Worry About A Thing


If this life is driving
You to drink
You sit around wondering
Just what to think
Well, I got some consoloation
I'll give it to you
If I might
Well, I don't worry bout a thing
'Cause I know nothing's gonna be alright.

You know this world is just one big
Trouble spot because
Some have plenty and
Some have not
You know I used to be troubled,
But I finally saw the light
Now I don't worry 'bout a thing
'Cause I know nothing's gonna be alright.

Don't waste your time trying to
Be a go-getter
Things will get worse before they
Get better
You know there's always somebody
Playing with dynamite
But I don't worry about a thing
'Cause I know nothing's gonna be alright.

 

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I also don't have any generational grudges, and I don't see any discussed here. Maybe that is a hallmark of Gen X as well. I have no grudge against the boomers, and I love watching the millennials and seeing what they are going to do. I have no problem with either generation at all. And don't really care what their problems are with Gen X. I think I dismiss boomer grudges against us with a "yeah yeah, I know, get off your lawn" and millennial grudges I shrug off as the hubris of youth.

The boomers were the worst generation to hit this country. They are the entitlement generation. They are the debt generation. They want everything for free or cheap and they want future generations like Gen X and the Millennial's to pay for it. We should begin eliminating each of them as they turn 65. Let them know they have taken enough.

 

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I also don't have any generational grudges, and I don't see any discussed here. Maybe that is a hallmark of Gen X as well. I have no grudge against the boomers, and I love watching the millennials and seeing what they are going to do. I have no problem with either generation at all. And don't really care what their problems are with Gen X. I think I dismiss boomer grudges against us with a "yeah yeah, I know, get off your lawn" and millennial grudges I shrug off as the hubris of youth.

Obviously anything said about a generation is a generalization and there are plenty of exceptions. No generation has successfully eliminated resentful assholes.

 

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The boomers were the worst generation to hit this country. They are the entitlement generation. They are the debt generation. They want everything for free or cheap and they want future generations like Gen X and the Millennial's to pay for it. We should begin eliminating each of them as they turn 65. Let them know they have taken enough.

As we see here.

 

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"If we’re going to make the country a better place, more suited to our values, we need to do it ourselves. Middle age is, if nothing else, time to shift out of second gear. If we can’t take a break from the urban farms, put down the knitting and home brewing equipment, and step into politics, business and other kinds of leadership, we’ll deserve our reputation as the generation that never quite showed up. Rather than the sound of silence, we should be hearing our voices – and they should be loud and angry."

I agree with this very much. I really had never grasped that my own personal trajectory was more generational. I've done everything later than you're supposed to. The thing is, you finally get here, and then, you know, you can be stricken down just when you hit your stride/prime. But that's individually...it will be far more interesting to see what we're going to do generationally now.

This was a good article. Starting with the boomers, change has been so rapid, technology and social changes happening so quickly that each generations has had issues to deal with that their patents have no experience to guide the new generation.

I had never really thought about how divorce affected a whole generation, but it did, the greatest generation divorced rarely, but with the boomers it became accepted and Ina way fashionable.

Thanks for posting this, it was some good insight.

 

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Obviously anything said about a generation is a generalization and there are plenty of exceptions. No generation has successfully eliminated resentful assholes.

Of course it is a generalization. We are talking about the group as a WHOLE.

 

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The boomers were the worst generation to hit this country. They are the entitlement generation. They are the debt generation. They want everything for free or cheap and they want future generations like Gen X and the Millennial's to pay for it. We should begin eliminating each of them as they turn 65. Let them know they have taken enough.

Another bitter GenX'r pissed that every American Generation in US history has surpassed them.

 

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Another bitter GenX'r pissed that every American Generation in US history has surpassed them.

LMAO... ok Mutt... thanks for the $12 trillion in debt the three boomer Presidents gave us. You have indeed surpassed everyone!

The boomer generation is the worst in the country's history. You will never be surpassed, Congrats!!!

 

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Of course it is a generalization. We are talking about the group as a WHOLE.

Those oldies that you ridicule were doing their thing in their 20's and 30's....40 or more years ago,..thats takes it back to the 1970's and even 1960's....so think what was
happening in those 'older' times....what were the accomplishments and advances in those days of yore.....I'd say we can be pretty proud of what we did as a generation.
Were their some set backs and tough times, sure. No generation has a cakewalk....we suffered through the stupidest war of all, Vietnam.

What have you all been doing in your 20's and 30's, what have you been accomplishing....seems like you've been more demanding and think you're more entitled.....but then that only one perspective.
and of course its also generalization.

 

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This was a good article. Starting with the boomers, change has been so rapid, technology and social changes happening so quickly that each generations has had issues to deal with that their patents have no experience to guide the new generation.

I had never really thought about how divorce affected a whole generation, but it did, the greatest generation divorced rarely, but with the boomers it became accepted and Ina way fashionable.

Thanks for posting this, it was some good insight.

An interesting read. I do agree with some of the generalizations. X'rs penchant for complaining while being extremely reluctant to make decisions or step into a leadership role

 

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LMAO... ok Mutt... thanks for the $12 trillion in debt the three boomer Presidents gave us. You have indeed surpassed everyone!

The boomer generation is the worst in the country's history. You will never be surpassed, Congrats!!!

Amount Each President Added to the Debt Since 1960:

President Barack Obama: Added $5.081 trillion, a 44% increase to the $11.657 trillion Economic Stimulus Act, which spent $253 billion in FY 2009. This rare occurrence should be added to President Obama's contribution to the debt.) so far....

President George W. Bush: Added $5.849 trillion, a 101% increase to the $5.8 trillion

President Bill Clinton: Added $1.396 trillion, a 32% increase to the $4.4 trillion

President George H.W. Bush: Added $1.554 trillion, a 54% increase to the $2.8 trillion

President Ronald Reagan: Added $1.86 trillion, 186% increase to the $998 billion debt

President Jimmy Carter: Added $299 billion, a 43% increase to the $699 billion debt

President Gerald Ford: Added $224 billion, a 47% increase to the $475 billion debt

President Richard Nixon: Added $121 billion, a 34% increase to the $354 billion debt

President Lyndon B. Johnson: Added $42 billion, a 13% increase to the $312 billion debt

President John F. Kennedy: Added $23 billion, a 8% increase to the $289 billion debt

President Dwight Eisenhower: Added $23 billion, a 9% increase to the $266 billion debt

President Harry Truman: Added $7 billion, a 3% increase over FDR's debt level of $259 billion

President Franklin D. Roosevelt: Added $236 billion, a 1,048% increase over $23 billion

President Herbert Hoover: Added $6 billion, a 33% increase over $17 billion

President Calvin Coolidge: Subtracted $5 billion from the debt, a 26% decline from $21 billion

President Warren G. Harding: Subtracted $2 billion from the debt, a 7% decline from the $24 billion debt

President Woodrow Wilson: Added $21 billion to the debt, a 727% increase over the $3 billion debt

 

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The boomers were the worst generation to hit this country. They are the entitlement generation. They are the debt generation. They want everything for free or cheap and they want future generations like Gen X and the Millennial's to pay for it. We should begin eliminating each of them as they turn 65. Let them know they have taken enough.

Yea, yea, yea...if it wasn't for Boomers, Jim Crow would be alive and well, Blacks wouldn't be able to vote or get decent jobs, gays would still be in the closet, women would be at home barefoot and pregnant, institutionalized bigotry would still be the how it is instead of the diversity and plurality we have today because of Boomers. The Boomers have been the most productive generation in US history. US GDP has more than quintupled from 3 trillion in 1960 to nearly 16 trillion now under the Bommer generation, the largest growth of productivity in all of human history.

So no generation of Americans have done as much to increase independence, freedom, liberty, plurality, diversity and productivity as the Boomer generation has and that's only some of the accomplishments of us Boomers.

So Freaky boy quit your candy assed whining and bitching and go do something other than complaining about shit and get something done.

 

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I also don't have any generational grudges, and I don't see any discussed here. Maybe that is a hallmark of Gen X as well. I have no grudge against the boomers, and I love watching the millennials and seeing what they are going to do.

your generation amounted to nothing. of course you like being on the sidelines. you should call yourselves generation sideline.

 

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meh im sorry. I don't hate xer's. they did nothing to me. I just hate boomers.

 

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and they got future generations like Gen X and the Millennial's to pay for it. .

fixed.

they ruined us, then call OUR generations entitled, when the baby boomers were the most selfish generation of all. fuck those guys.

 

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Yea, yea, yea...if it wasn't for Boomers, Jim Crow would be alive and well, Blacks wouldn't be able to vote or get decent jobs, gays would still be in the closet, women would be at home barefoot and pregnant, institutionalized bigotry would still be the how it is instead of the diversity and plurality we have today because of Boomers. The Boomers have been the most productive generation in US history. US GDP has more than quintupled from 3 trillion in 1960 to nearly 16 trillion now under the Bommer generation, the largest growth of productivity in all of human history.

LMAO... the boomer generation was responsible for the growth in GDP? LMAO... that is seriously some funny shit. The civil rights movement was led by the greatest generation, not the boomers. The boomers were stoned morons in their teens and twenties as the civil rights movement occurred. The oldest of the boomers were 19 when Jim Crow laws were struck down. Not shocking that a boomer would try and take credit for something they didn't do.

So no generation of Americans have done as much to increase independence, freedom, liberty, plurality, diversity and productivity as the Boomer generation has and that's only some of the accomplishments of us Boomers.

So Freaky boy quit your candy assed whining and bitching and go do something other than complaining about shit and get something done.

No generation has done more to create government DEPENDENCE, not independence. Gen X and the millennials are far more accepting and tolerant than the boomers.

The boomer generation is a bunch of takers. That is all they have been. Your contributions will pale in comparison to Gen X.

Take a look at Silicon Valley... the cutting edge is being led by Gen X and the Millenials. Not the boomers.

 

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I think X received so much crap from the older generations that they know what it's like to be scrutinized as Millennials are. I think that the miniscule size of X will eventually cause a major rift, though, because political and cultural power is going to transfer quite seamlessly from the Kaboomers right over to Millenials.