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I greatly prefer good and traditional company. I am good and traditional myself, hence my distain for 'hippies'; particularly 'old hippies' who should know better. I think I am a 'neo-square' without the timidness and need to be 'cool'.

I have a good baby-boomer friend--a former Navy pilot and he made the point to me:

"You Gen-Xers don't care about tradition or hierarchy or experience: you are all about The Idea. You guys will follow a good idea no matter who came up with it."

I think he really nailed it there. It explains a lot of the friction between the various generations in the workplace. We, Gen-X, are most like, and get along with, The Silent Generation.

For rejecting tradition and propriety, I have found the boomers I have worked with to be the most staid, hidebound, uninspiring of the lot, hence the EEOC--and the tons of regulations that abort The Idea like they did their children....

but experience teaches either patience or inspires madness.

Very true--I'm certainly old enough to understand that....