Gen X Succeeds in Rebelling Against Society by Becoming Culturally Irrelevant
Gen X Succeeds in Rebelling Against Society by Becoming Culturally Irrelevant
All 65 million members of Generation X around the country celebrated after finally realizing their goal of becoming invisible to the nation’s political, cultural, and historical landscape.
All jokes aside, I feel lucky to be a generation that for all intents and purposes has flown under the radar.
40Fared way better than the boomers, in that case
17I see that as the cause. The boomers held on tight to power, shafting Gen X in many ways. They still got to ride the coat tails of wealth, but were often kept out of top leadership (see federal gov for the premier example). And I’m sure that had a pretty powerful impact on Gen X’s ability to flourish culturally. They were willing to stay in line with boomer culture because they got paid enough.
Millennials were effectively pushed out of the wealth, so they were/are willing to break norms because it never paid off to do everything “right” anyway. And now Gen Z knows everything’s fucked. Godspeed.
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We had and still have our shit together and didn't fuck up anything so bad that fingers get pointed at us...unlike just about every other generation in history.
11I think a significant portion of our generation had such prolific access to hard drugs that they're dead already if they didn't have their shit together at least a little.
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Whatever
34Like, talk to the hand!
6Right. Fucking corporate shills. Nothing we could have done would have mattered anyway.
We are generation Eor.
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Culturally irrelevant or culturally apathetic?
I don't give two shits about being "relevant" I just get shit done.
28This is not genx specific. GPS only became standard in the last 10 years and millennial are entering their 40s
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no matter what new music format came out, I listened to the same 10 bands on it
Ackshually, I don't listen to Faith No More anymore. So it's the same 9 bands.
16Blasphemy. You should take it Easy, because We Care a Lot, and need More!
8What an Epic reply.
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Wow, this take came From Out of Nowhere
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Who? Am I gen x? I watched waynes world on city tv
8Do not fuck with us. We still know how to read a map, argue in real life, and find information in an encyclopedia.
When the world ends, we are your only hope of figuring anything out.
8Millennial here, I can do that, and my knees work.
15You know millennial were like teens and young adults when smart phones were invented right? We can mostly do that stuff too.
3I'm not irrelevant - look at my irrelevant, trivially easy, by no means unique skills.
I guess those arguing in real life skills of yours don't translate to the Internet - putting disaffected grunts, performative disinterest, and over the top sarcasm into text is difficult.
3I'll be the Joel to your Ellie.
2None of these are genx specific.
GPS only became standard in the last 10 years, and millennial are in their 40s.
Encyclopedias have informational blurbs, but often lack nuance and aren't how you get subject matter expertise and real-life arguments happen every holiday.
These arguments are about as sensical as saying kids NEED to learn cursive more than they need to learn home key.
The chances of the internet going away are actually pretty slim. Being able to navigate the internet is more important than any of those things.
1Like, whatever.
4Exactly.
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According to a few The Fourth Turning videos and articles I've consumed recently, our generational archetype is The Nomad. It made me consider that we seemed aimless and disinterested in a lot of societal nonsense because it was our spiritual approach to coping with this absurd Western reality. Also, we created the concepts of urban nomad and digital nomad. Ultimately, I believe it was always our destiny to wander in a uniquely detached way. We are known more for what we reject than what we embrace. I feel that this is something that the world needed and others could not provide. These same others see us as forgettable because we tried to warn them of their folly and humans are great at ignoring that.
6I feel like that's every generation until they give up on it. Humanity is too far gone. This place is never going to be good unless there's a long bloody war against it. But people would rather watch TV and get into pop politics than just loops peoples lives in circles.
I wish at least America would collapse already and maybe humanity could move on to a better direction.
How many more wasted generations are the slave masters going to produce?
Unless you rape and claw at others lives to get ahead life is hell. Such a twisted world. Might as well just have the war if they expect me to treat humanity like shit to make a "life" for myself.
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It is what it is.
4Wait... Did all of you miss that this was satire?
4Is it though?
7It's not. It's real. Gen x are the new boomer.
Speaking of my small towns experience in New Hampshire.
I grew up next to bad people. lots of the Gen x from my town are dead or in prison or getting away with crimes and acting like they should still be able to have a voice in politics and voting.
A lot of them built their careers off of robbing, conning, and drug dealing. Now they are small business owners and people actually think they made it with clean money. So while all the honest kids suffered and got left behind the criminals "made it" and get respect from the older generation because the older generation is naive. I mean it's the same generation that raised these losers...
Morons shot guns directly outside my house to pressure/scare me because I didn't like his pro Jan 6th coup art.
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Meh
3And....?
2Why can't they eat tide pods or be out of touch. Gosh
0Sounds like wishful thinking if you ask me.
Gen X didn't rebel - instead, rebellion was packaged and sold to us by our corporate overlords and we were far too ignorant to even realize it.
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someone born on the late end of 1980 is not 38
“It took serious commitment to fight the status quo like we did,” said Clinton Bower from the sunroom of his two-story suburban home he would have likened to a “soulless prison cell for mediocre corporate robots” in his youth.
Go fuck yourselves
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