Is gen x the last great generation?

[TheTickG]

“You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.” These are the words that baby boomers and gen x grew up on. Millennials and gen z have no idea because they’re too sensitive and think that the world revolves around them. The infrastructure of this country was built by baby boomers and maintained by gen x.

There’s too much handholding. I blame helicopter parenting and liberals for this demise. Will gen alpha restore balance or are we doomed from here on out?

These are not the words gen x and baby boomers grew up on. They were already adults when those lines became famous.

Also, participation trophies already started when gen x were kids.

 

[AbominableJoman]

Yes












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[Nizam al-Mulk]

Yes












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What makes you so sure?

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

YES

 

[Sobek]

These are not the words gen x and baby boomers grew up on. They were already adults when those lines became famous.

Also, participation trophies already started when gen x were kids.

Yep one of the wtf moments

 

[Contempt]

As I am gen X by 6 months... the answer is clearly yes.

 

[Contempt]

These are not the words gen x and baby boomers grew up on. They were already adults when those lines became famous.

Also, participation trophies already started when gen x were kids.

That specific quote maybe, but the sentiment is accurate. "You're not special, you want something? get off your ass and go earn it" seemed to be the prevailing attitude of the day.

...I never saw any of that participation trophy bullshit growing up. Maybe it's different here.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

Gen C are a shit generation, they haven’t done anything “great”

 

[ferrisjso]

Jfc. Boomers destroyed the world in 40 years and now think they are a great generation? The boomers hated socialism because they didn't live through the great depression so now they're forcing us to.

 

[MDoza]

The further we get from major wars and incurable disease, the more complacent people get.

Gen X had the benefit of no major wars, and rapid medical and technological advancement, while still direct connection to war time and hardship through their parents and grand parents.

Older Millenials at least lived through most of the 80’s and early 90’s before the era of widespread household computers and smartphones, so they have a small appreciation for how the world is now.

I can’t imagine being a kid born in Gen Z. Being constantly connected to the internet, there’s a cure for everything, war in the West is unthinkable, and at the same time, there is no sense of Manifest Destiny anymore. No unexplored territory, no unclaimed lands, everything is owned already, monopoly’s have been established. Nothing to fight for, virtually no national goals aside from reproduction, most work can be automated.

It’s really no surprise that people aren’t as enterprising as they used to be. Any qualms you have with the current generations are a result of the world that was created by the prior generations, so at some point you have to question if they were really all that great.

 

[Cole train]

The further we get from major wars and incurable disease, the more complacent people get.

Gen X had the benefit of no major wars, and rapid medical and technological advancement, while still direct connection to war time and hardship through their parents and grand parents.

Older Millenials at least lived through most of the 80’s and early 90’s before the era of widespread household computers and smartphones, so they have a small appreciation for how the world is now.

I can’t imagine being a kid born in Gen Z. Being constantly connected to the internet, there’s a cure for everything, war in the West is unthinkable, and at the same time, there is no sense of Manifest Destiny anymore. No unexplored territory, no unclaimed lands, everything is owned already, monopoly’s have been established. Nothing to fight for, virtually no national goals aside from reproduction, most work can be automated.

It’s really no surprise that people aren’t as enterprising as they used to be. Any qualms you have with the current generations are a result of the world that was created by the prior generations, so at some point you have to question if they were really all that great.

Yea the manifest destiny or all sense of "adventure" has been killed off according to a lot of guys online from what i see sometimes, current trend of traveling doesnt do it seems for some people atleast.

(Of course theres still some exciting adventurous stuff you can do but probably not same level as finding new land etc)

 

[Beechwood]

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.

 

[Fedorgasm]

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

And they're all correct

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Great question, I think probably it is.

 

[KnightTemplar]

The further we get from major wars and incurable disease, the more complacent people get.

Gen X had the benefit of no major wars, and rapid medical and technological advancement, while still direct connection to war time and hardship through their parents and grand parents.

Older Millenials at least lived through most of the 80’s and early 90’s before the era of widespread household computers and smartphones, so they have a small appreciation for how the world is now.

I can’t imagine being a kid born in Gen Z. Being constantly connected to the internet, there’s a cure for everything, war in the West is unthinkable, and at the same time, there is no sense of Manifest Destiny anymore. No unexplored territory, no unclaimed lands, everything is owned already, monopoly’s have been established. Nothing to fight for, virtually no national goals aside from reproduction, most work can be automated.

It’s really no surprise that people aren’t as enterprising as they used to be. Any qualms you have with the current generations are a result of the world that was created by the prior generations, so at some point you have to question if they were really all that great.

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.

 

[Halifax]

Millennials are terrible, but the Gen Xers who raised them aren't?

Some. I'm tail end of Gen x and I'm raising 2 gen z/gen alpha. My wife is a decade younger than I am.

Mid/late Millennials have a distinct subgrouping. Early millennials are more like GenX and fall into the xennials subgrouping. Silly as it sounds. The younger group grew up during the beginning of school "safe spaces" and was raised completely on the internet and hit their 20s with smart phones and instant gratification, which makes them far more impatient, the older only began using the internet a lot in their 20s and grew up in the sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me era.

 

[Halifax]

You are a first year millennial and this is exactly what I mean about people not knowing what generation they are in . Obviously the early and late years in generations are going to have a lot of overlap. Your bro is also a millennial. If you aren't 45 plus you aren't x . Millennials right now are 30-44

Most sources categorize genx as 1965-1980 birthdates, and millennials are 1981-1996.

The real divide in mentality is how much they grew up with and had the internet at their fingertips and social media and how young they were when they got smartphones at their fingertips in their 20s. It also corresponds to safe spaces in schools becoming mainstream, inclusiveness and prizes for 12th place and the rising ability to argue anonimously on the internet. Which really kicked off harder in the early 2000s during the gaming explosion.

 

[Mr Mojo Lane]

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

And they're all correct

No. Ask Boomers to back up the shit that they talk even if we are talking about a time machine. They were smaller, weaker, slower, dumber, lazier, etc, etc. They just had it easy.

I'm GenX. I know this. I had to unlearn Boomer shit

 

[FyrFytr998]

“You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.” These are the words that baby boomers and gen x grew up on. Millennials and gen z have no idea because they’re too sensitive and think that the world revolves around them. The infrastructure of this country was built by baby boomers and maintained by gen x.

There’s too much handholding. I blame helicopter parenting and liberals for this demise. Will gen alpha restore balance or are we doomed from here on out?

I wouldn’t say we are the last great generation, because life is cyclical, and has been for generations…..


Gen X is in between the strong men and Good times. Millenials and the current Gens are between good times and weak men. So somewhere the next “Great Generation’ is on deck to take up the fight to perpetuate the cycle anew. Unfortunately, the Hard times that will create these new strong men usually involve Wars of significant outcomes.

You can almost set your clock to it.

 

[I Am Legion]

Yes. But it's not the younger generation's fault. Everyone let them down. Liberal agendas came from a place of equality but turned into a disservice in the school system. School is a joke because everyone gets pushed through. No one gets left back, and no kids can get advanced learning when they show promise in many areas in the name of inclusion and equality. I coached some really dumb kids that had straight A's. Parents don't discipline. There are groups of kids on bikes riding in the middle of the street right into cars. Cops get called, they make parents pick them up. I see the kids back out the next day doing the same dumb shit. Tech has made them terrible at communication verbally or in written correspondence. Also, instant gratification, so no patience.