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In reply to the discussion: Generation X is sick of your bullshit (millenials) [View all]herding cats
(19,559 posts)Not that the angst has necessarily changed, but I think many GenX people have since given up on ever having a niche.
It's a generation over looked and never really marketed to. In modern society, it's as if they're an asterisk in history, which is sad. They honed much of our culture, imagine what rock would be without their contributions? Metal, punk, rap and grunge were honed from their advances.. Sure, film sort of sucked, but I think they resisted the herding there better some other generations to be honest. ESee their music for a hint at that (ignore hair bands, WTF were they thinking?!) They hated being told how it was going to be and lashed out in their own way. Problem was, no one was listening since they were sandwiched in between two much larger generations.
I'm a GenX I recently learned (I think?), but whatever. I'm not about labels, and I have friends both above and below my generation. We can all learn from each other. And, hey, even if I'm not as competitive as some of my slightly younger peers at work, I work amazingly well on my own, and need less personal validation for my input. <---- riffing on the stereotype for those who don't get my humor. 😉
Lather, rinse, repeat. This crap never changes... All we can do is not bother to validate the silliness of it. We don't have to "clan" up against each other. We're all in this together. That's reality.