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re: Why is Generation X never talked about?
Posted on 5/27/23 at 4:03 pm to BK Lounge
Posted on 5/27/23 at 4:03 pm to BK Lounge
Very self-sufficient generation for the most part. We had to learn to navigate situations and make decisions on our own as we were basically tossed out to the wild at an early age to fend for ourselves. Even though my kids hear the stories from my childhood (born 1970) and teen years, I don’t think that they can really understand a world without the internet, smart phones and social media. We were expected to do our homework and whatever household chores we were told to do and then our boomer parents basically said “out those doors is the world, go do it and don’t get home to late.” I think we were just forced to learn to manage things with a large degree of independence.
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Posted on 5/27/23 at 4:05 pm to Thundercles
It is a very small generation compared to BB and Millenials.
Posted on 5/27/23 at 4:15 pm to Thundercles
Because, unlike the generation before us, the Boomers, and the two after us, the millennials and zoomers, we’re not a bunch of self-consumed, attention seeking, narcissists who think the world owes us anything and must pay us attention and reality must bend to our whims. Instead we’re pragmatic, logic driven, and just want to live our lives going about our business, and take care of what is ours.
This post was edited on 5/27/23 at 4:17 pm
Posted on 5/27/23 at 4:21 pm to Darth_Vader
Yep.
Posted on 5/27/23 at 4:36 pm to Thundercles
Boomers were shipped off to Viet Nam to a war that wasn't. Many that came back were into drugs and brought the habit back with them. And then there were the others who protested the war because they were tired of seeing their friends and loved ones come back in body bags. Then there were those of us who weren't quite old enough yet and we finished high school and got married and raise kids in a much different world. Drugs were everywhere and integration was going on. We worked our entire lives and paid into a corrupt SS system for our old age only to have the govt, steal the money and give it to people who didn't have the knowledge or skills to go into the work force. And now after a few generations, we have the entitled and confused. No work ethic and failing morals. But ya'll are right, the Boomers were the problem. It has always been the filthy rich who profit off of misery that run the world. All of our lives don't matter to them. We were all slaves to the system. I am sorry for the mess the world is in. You can't point of any specific generation.
Posted on 5/27/23 at 4:47 pm to Thundercles
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What is Gen X's schtick? Why are they largely ignored?
We gave you guitar solos and you pissed it away, so frick it.
Posted on 5/27/23 at 5:08 pm to Indefatigable
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Gen X and the oldest tier of millennials are the real enemy. They raised and created the vapid, perpetual-victim, social media-obsessed generation Z.
They did an even worse job of raising children than the Boomers did.
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Indefatigable
Melt.
And frick all the way off.
Posted on 5/27/23 at 6:24 pm to Iron Lion
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Our "shtick" is we're the generation holding this country together right now
That aint no Shtick that's the dam truth. Dam shame there are so few of us. We have seen both sides of the coin. How life was before Technology took over and now with it taking over. To be honest life was better before if you ask me. Most of us moved out right after high school and never looked back.
This post was edited on 5/27/23 at 6:26 pm
Posted on 5/27/23 at 6:33 pm to Thundercles
We’re just here to finance it all and become alcoholics.
Posted on 5/27/23 at 6:33 pm to Thundercles
Idk but they raised gen Z so obviously they suck arse just like all the rest.
Posted on 5/27/23 at 6:35 pm to Thundercles
Because the idea of generation classification is idiotic.
Posted on 5/27/23 at 6:38 pm to Artificial Intel
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Because the idea of generation classification is idiotic.
Yup
I’m classified as a millennial but I have more in common with the GenX baws than majority of millennials
Posted on 5/27/23 at 6:59 pm to AUCom96
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Actually, the hallmark of Gen X was apathy and a general disconnect from the need to be seen of the boomers. The millennials are the biggest attention whores of all time and the Z's are insane so Gen X just gets lost in the madness.
We were the last generation that figured out how to survive just fine without cell phones and social media.
Posted on 5/27/23 at 9:15 pm to Rouge
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Because we were ignored by our boomer parents to be latch key kids.
And then when our parents became grandparents, they suddenly liked kids again, weirdly enough. So at family gatherings, we get to hear all about what it was like to be a kid in the 50's or 60's, and what was going on with kids in later generations. But somehow, 1980's and 1990's childhoods just aren't that interesting.
Posted on 5/27/23 at 9:18 pm to Thundercles
Degenerate into something, fool
We just got tired of doin' what ya told us to do
That's the breaks boy, yeah
That's the breaks, little man
Break it down!
We just got tired of doin' what ya told us to do
That's the breaks boy, yeah
That's the breaks, little man
Break it down!
Posted on 5/27/23 at 9:20 pm to fightin tigers
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Probably our lack of ever doing anything notable
Woodstock ‘99?
Posted on 5/27/23 at 9:23 pm to JasonDBlaha
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It’s ironic considering that we were the last generation to grow up before there was an Internet, as Windows wasn’t commercially available until the mid-90s and Gen X people were already in their mid to late 20s by that point
I got a lot more shite done before Windows 95 showed up.
Posted on 5/27/23 at 9:26 pm to PowerTool
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And then when our parents became grandparents, they suddenly liked kids again, weirdly enough. So at family gatherings, we get to hear all about what it was like to be a kid in the 50's or 60's, and what was going on with kids in later generations. But somehow, 1980's and 1990's childhoods just aren't that interesting.
The line from Fight Club rings true. We are the middle children of history.
Posted on 5/28/23 at 5:03 am to genuineLSUtiger
Yep.
Posted on 5/28/23 at 5:54 am to fallguy_1978
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It's fun to talk about but I think the cultural divide is really people who grew up with the internet, cellphones etc and those that didn't.
I miss pay phones and being up to good in face to face groups of fours and fives.
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