Is gen x the last great generation?

[MDoza]

There are plenty of diseases that are still incurable. Pancreatic Cancer is pretty much a fucking death sentence, even if you have access to bleeding-edge medical technology.

Cancer is an inevitability.

 

[blaseblase]

There is nothing inherently liberal about helicopter parenting.

The so called "helicopter parents" are literally the people running the country today and make up the majority of the Republican party. TS seems confused.

 

[ferrisjso]

Cancer is an inevitability.

Its not but its the default way humans die.

 

[blaseblase]

I was watching a Bill Maher video clip yesterday and on the show was criticism of todays schools. The guests were saying that public/government run schools these days teach kids that America is a bad country that shouldn't be well thought of. Basically America is a country to not like todays schools are teaching kids.

If that is true, I'm a generation Xer and that is different from the schooling I received. I don't remember being taught a lot of patriotism in school but I also wasn't taught to dislike America.

You were forced to recite the pledge of allegiance and were taught a watered down version of American history filled with propaganda. You probably dressed up as an Indian native American on Thanksgiving. If kids today are being taught their country isn't a special snowflake responsible for saving the world it's an improvement.

 

[ferrisjso]

I was watching a Bill Maher video clip yesterday and on the show was criticism of todays schools. The guests were saying that public/government run schools these days teach kids that America is a bad country that shouldn't be well thought of. Basically America is a country to not like todays schools are teaching kids.

If that is true, I'm a generation Xer and that is different from the schooling I received. I don't remember being taught a lot of patriotism in school but I also wasn't taught to dislike America.

The Maher mention did kind of hit home as i can remember some relatives of mine, 15 to 20 years younger than me, disliking America, disliking the constitution, thinking the US was a troubled country. I got the opinion they would not fight for American values.

So I suppose from that stand point maybe generation X is the last generation that has a generally positive view of America due to the schooling we received.

Has it ever occcured to you peoples love or hatred or America might have to do with how the country treated them or how the countrys policys lined up with what they wanted. IMO very few people get their life long political ideology from a childhood classroom they get it from their lifes experience. Boomers had the easiest life if they weren't drafted to Vietnam so why would your average boomer hate America? For later generations thats a very different question.

 

[lowlife]

I am quite impressed wit Boomer thinking. The wars they fought, the companies they founded...

Yes quite impressive how they got their ass kicked in Vietnam and paved the way for corporate take over of our political and social systems. Very impressive indeed.

 

[MDoza]

Its not but its the default way humans die.

It is. Mutations during DNA replication are an inevitability. Live long enough, you will get cancer. Most people just don’t live long enough.

 

[ookii]

Every generation says the generation after them is made up of a bunch of pussies.

And they're all correct

Yup boomers were calling Gen xers the slacker generation. It's now Gen xers calling millennial soft while at the same time procrastinating on their task list because the labeling by the boomers is still sticking on the xers

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

I bet $1 million Sherdog cash that TS is a Gen X

But yes I agree to some extent. Boomers are like the self righteous oldest kid, the millennials are the coddled youngest kid, and Gen X are the forgotten middle child that's actually doing cool stuff

But then again, Gen X are the parents of the Gen Z Tik Tokers

Gen X: shittiest parents


You heard it here 1st folks

 

[Streeter]

Boomers were last great generation they finished building country into what it became . Gen X treaded water with it at best then the downhill started with Y an went near vertical with Millenials.

 

[IIIIIIII]

Nothing requires categorization like this at all. It’s a crutch to help people frame snippets of time.

Under this logic the easiest thing to use would be 10 year spans, decades.

Hope this helps.

so instead of saying generation, say, "10 years spans"? i mean okay, so long as it means the same thing lol. it didn't really help, just kept it the same.

Generations stopped being a real thing years ago, courtesy of the pervasive nature of the internet in everyones lives and the speed at which technology is constantly changing peoples behavior and interests. Generations used to be broadly defined by events, social mores and shared cultural experiences. Nobody shares the same reality anymore. Everyone's got their own personal algorithm and living in a completely different world from one another. People who are born 10-15 years apart have nothing in common with each other at this point, and now people born more than a few years apart don't seem to have much in common with each other either.

Also it's the xennial gen between roughly 77-83. We're not gen x or millennial, always been in between both culturally. We grew up in the world of rotary phones and dad whipping our ass in public, and matured in the age of video games, computers, internet and then mobile phones. If you know anything about hand rewinding and recording with tape cassettes, you're no millennial. I don't share any cultural connection with people born in 1970 or 1995 and truth be told, not even 75 or 87.

this may be the best explanation yet.

 

[Your Salad]

"generation" is a gimmick term for low-tier brains.

Most of you are asleep at the wheel.

Nothing requires categorization like this at all. It’s a crutch to help people frame snippets of time.

Under this logic the easiest thing to use would be 10 year spans, decades.

Hope this helps.

So, saying I was born in a 10-year span somehow is a better way to describe my/your experience of, and influence to the culture VS the use of terms like 'Gen whatever' that uses time spans like the one you described is better?
Seems like the same thing.

 

[Yoricks Wisdom]

I grew up in the “Me Generation”, so fuck y’all.

 

[Your Salad]

I grew up in the “Me Generation”, so fuck y’all.

#metoo

 

[blaseblase]

Boomers were last great generation they finished building country into what it became . Gen X treaded water with it at best then the downhill started with Y an went near vertical with Millenials.

There's is no Y dumbass.

 

[Plissken]

Xennialls if you count smaller generations (roughly '75-'83/'84). Most of them are in what's considered the tail end of Gen X anyway.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

I’ve always hated the generation categories because it tries to apply a “one size fits all” mentality to vast groups of people that may not really fit. For example, I’m a 1985 millenial and yet my three older siblings who are 4, 9 and 12 years older than me in some ways embody the millennial stereotypes more than I do. For example, of the four of us I was the only to get married in my 20s. My oldest brother and my older sister got married at 30, and my other older brother got married at 34 while I got married at 27. I also was the youngest of the four of us to have kids, as my son was born less than two weeks after my 30th birthday and my wife was 28. Meanwhile my older sister had her first kid less than a month before her 35th birthday and both my older brothers became fathers at age 37.

 

[HHJ]

i was born in 80' and don't have any connections with the generation after x, which is what, y? my next brother was born six years after me, so i hung out with the kids around who were mostly a few years older. got into metal and bmx biking from those guys. baseball as well.

Being born in 80 and listening to metal is the chosen path of the righteous.

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

Yes quite impressive how they got their ass kicked in Vietnam and paved the way for corporate take over of our political and social systems. Very impressive indeed.

There were no Boomers in Gulf War 1...

In what year did the takeover happen and how did they pave the way?

 

[Meatspin]

Being born in 80 and listening to metal is the chosen path of the righteous.

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