Star Wars, Ghostbusters, the Mario Movie, the Breakfast Club, the Princess Bride, it goes on and on and on. The heroes were all rebelling against some ignorant authority that either didn’t understand the damage it was able to do or didn’t care about hurting those who had no power. As a result, when I was coming up my generation felt very much against the established status quo. Even the kid-targeted stuff in the early 90s, it was all gross-out humor and struggling against adult authority in favor of personal autonomy. Nickelodeon takes over your school. As a teenager it was grunge and punk and everything being ‘extreme’.
And what did Gen X get out of it? To be so forgotten as a generation that everybody else thinks we’re Boomers!
Ask anybody who’s not a Gen Xer to list out the current generations and they will, without fail, say: “Boomers, Millennials, Zoomers, and whatever Alphas are going to turn into”
That’s not true. The cynicism gave us critical thinking skills to navigate through the bullshit we live with on the internet now. If anything, Millennials and Zoomers are more corporate friendly than ever, consuming whatever the doomscrollers tell them to.
Imagine straddling the Gen X/Millennial line. We doubly don’t exist.
What did we get out of it, though? Kind of a lot, actually.
We legalized marijuana in a lot of places, got marriage equality in a lot of places, and did actually push some positive changes in general. How long they’ll last? How many survive even now? Eh… Well, that depends on how well we manage to get out from under the shadow of the boomers and bring our ideals to the next generation.
Well, that depends on how well we manage to get out from under the shadow of the boomers and bring our ideals to the next generations.
It’s too late for that. The last meaningful bill that got passed was Obamacare, and even that was watered down and didn’t do much to solve the healthcare crisis.
Whatever government benefits we are holding on to will be gutted in the next four years, and American democracy will be dismantled within the next decade.
Welcome to the final goal of late-stage capitalism: anarcho-capitalism. We’ll be paying for our fire departments and police protections before you know it.
And what did Gen X get out of it? To be so forgotten as a generation that everybody else thinks we’re Boomers!
Ask anybody who’s not a Gen Xer to list out the current generations and they will, without fail, say: “Boomers, Millennials, Zoomers, and whatever Alphas are going to turn into”
And what have we done as a generation to be remembered for? We gave in to nihilism and cynicism and did nothing.
That’s not true. The cynicism gave us critical thinking skills to navigate through the bullshit we live with on the internet now. If anything, Millennials and Zoomers are more corporate friendly than ever, consuming whatever the doomscrollers tell them to.
Imagine straddling the Gen X/Millennial line. We doubly don’t exist.
What did we get out of it, though? Kind of a lot, actually.
We legalized marijuana in a lot of places, got marriage equality in a lot of places, and did actually push some positive changes in general. How long they’ll last? How many survive even now? Eh… Well, that depends on how well we manage to get out from under the shadow of the boomers and bring our ideals to the next generation.
It’s too late for that. The last meaningful bill that got passed was Obamacare, and even that was watered down and didn’t do much to solve the healthcare crisis.
Whatever government benefits we are holding on to will be gutted in the next four years, and American democracy will be dismantled within the next decade.
Welcome to the final goal of late-stage capitalism: anarcho-capitalism. We’ll be paying for our fire departments and police protections before you know it.