I agree. I think the generalizations are silly. The whole Generation X thing was an artificial creation of a pop sociologist. But it seems to have an hypnotic effect on otherwise sound people. It's true there was a marginal element of young people around the sixties that were spoiled brats, but it was always a marginal element. There's some sorry kids in every generation, but it's that minority that gets the attention. I wonder if these people born after 1970 who are trashing the "Boomers" have watched the documentaries of the turbulent 60s and have concluded that the attention-grabbing marginal element was the norm. What's painful for people our age is that we had to grow up enduring and loathing the spoiled counter-culture element in our age and now, years later, younger people are accusing our generation of generally being that which disgusted us when we were growing up.
Exactly. Everyone now understands how the MSM twists everything to suit their liberal worldview, yet fail to understand that the MSM of the sixties(members of the 'Greatest Generation' BTW) were doing the same thing thirty five years ago, and at a time when there was no dissenting opinion available.
Instead of enduring and loathing, you should have fought the extreme element. Now it characterizes your generation. It's unfortunate, but true....
Colonel - you've hit the nail on the head. Everytime Qam1 submits one of these Gen-X posts, I feel as though I am being urged to justify my existence or apologize. The "Generation" labels are completely artificial - just another brand of kool-aid that the discontented are all too eager to drink. Don't generalize. And don't pretend it isn't generalization when you excuse the good Boomers from the sins of the bad Boomers. Some of the most selfish people I have ever known are Boomers - the rest are X'ers, and from the Greatest and Silent generations.
If you narrow your focus to those who have wealth, influence and power, the generational definitions make more sense. The 60s counterculture essentially run the world now. Even the so called "conservatives" among them, in the halls of power, are far to the Left of even some Democrats of the 1950s. Walking as I do, literally in the heavy wake of the Boomers (born, '62) I have made a career of cleaning up after their messes. The only difficulty has been just the sheer amount of career competition - I always have many people, 10 - 30 years older than me, competing against me directly. I just makes me get even better.