The Whatever Rule: Gen-X does not exist
The Whatever Rule: Gen-X does not exist
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There are still Boomers in their 60s.
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The point is that just about the entirety of Gen-X falls into their range uet they chose to only mention Boomers. Fine by me, its just hilarious how they always forget the existence of an entire generation.
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I feel like boomer is just synonymous with old people at this point.
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Amusingly enough, Douglas Couplsnd, in his book of the same name, called the generation after the boomers "Generation X" specifically to make the point that they had been forgotten and ignored.
And we just ran with that convention all the way up to Y(millenials), Z, Alpha???
I assumed someone had been counting
Yes, because, as we all know, no generation defining historical events have happened since the Vietnam war, the beetles and the hippie movement. Anything that has happened since then has actually solely been the life experiences of boomers, and only their interpretation of such events actually matters.
That’s why everyone since then has been named after a unit of time or letters. Not like, you know, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the GWOT, the global financial crisis, or the rise of the internet as a central pillar of society merit naming generations after. No, those are actually all just subsets of the life experience of boomers, and other generations who don’t matter.
Pretty much - yeah.
Coupland used "X" to make the point that they (we) had no other identity - we were just the generation after the Boomers. He also called us "the Misplaced Generation."
But when the name started to catch on, advertisers picked it up and started using it in marketing, and it just sort of snowballed from there.
We’re the middle children of history. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war…
Gen X is Trump's largest support bloc by far, and are the people writing the culture war and generation war "think pieces."
I wish y'all would shut the fuck up and be ignored but sadly the entirely unearned pity party is too strong.
But we gave the world the 80s. That's something.