THE silent GENERATION
Tell me about your generation? What are they like? What defines your breed & creed?
My generation is X, but absent are the radical ties to Malcolm. The X in my generation stands for a generic signature cashing blank checks at the mall. We are a bland group of whiny citizens with little to offer the future. Our cell phones make flapjacks, take pictures and scratch our balls... this will be our legacy. A silent and preoccupied generation that stood quietly and looked away as we began a new century with a grotesque American agenda.
We have no Bob Dylans. There are no Muhammad Alis. While Washington should be burning to the ground, we fatten our asses and watch America's Next Top Model. We can blame it on the 60's. They battled racism, unjust wars and chauvinism on a scale we'll never see again, leaving us pampered and indifferent to modern injustices.
Corporate plundering, oil manipulation, war profiting and bailout schemes do not outrage us. Annoy, yes, but not outrage. That is reserved for canceled TV shows and unreturned text messages. We will not take it to the streets. We will not march against evil and rise up against the machine. But we will bitch & blog and go to sleep. ;-)
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Comments
Apparently, I'm a cuspoid. Teetering on the border between your X and Gen Y.
Gen Y is a dirty phrase, it seems.
My very shallow understanding is that it can be summed up as a generation of self-serving lightweights running around asking "what's in it for me?" and jumping jobs every two minutes because they have the attention span of a gnat.
Note the use of "they".
I think part of the problem is that we/they feel too much owned by massive commercial enterprises and people feel powerless to fight against the money.
I'm trying to think how to continue this comment, but I'm just depressing myself, so I'll leave it as that.
Family household income for gen x'ers increases at 0.3% per year and is rapidly declining compared to our fathers generation which had an annual income increase averaging 0.9% and rose each year.
The lazy children of Gen-Y will be chronic masturbaters, but it will be done electronically via a lubed robot.
I would love to revolt but the rest of you bastards would just leave me naked in the wind when it starts. =)
Our generation works longer hours than the 3 previous. That can make you tired.
Are the Gen X and following generations lame? - yes. We had no free love or any of that jazz.
The thought that each generation is worse than the next is lamer b.s. though. We live longer, have a more comfortable life, many diseases have been iradicated or marginalized and cancer is no longer a death sentence.
It all depends on how you look at it. As for not rebelling - um, the government has weapons that we don't even no about. Any uprising would be squashed quickly as the government has a monopoly on sophisticated weaponry.