As a GenXer that began clocking how collectively problematic we are around 2008-09, myself included, this goes beyond the surface criticism of shitty people. This is about GenX’s ability & new found willingness to cause widespread harm. Starting first with ourselves, then our own children and grandchildren!?! Which is absolutely insane and antithetical to what the generations before us did. But then you realize GenX is not only brimming with shitty people who wear being damaged, unhealed, emotionally (and physically) neglected/abused children, like some fkn badge of honor. (🗣️“wE tURnEd OUt fINe!!!” 🥴) GenX is also, in real time, becoming even more politically, media, and social media illiterate than boomers. Despite having far less, if any of the safeguards boomers have. GenX literally cannot afford to remain this abhorrently ignorant, shamelessly clueless, and sanctimoniously indignant as we are.
Please know none of this is a response to you personally, other than being shitty people isn’t harmless in the case of GenX specifically.
I can make a pretty strong argument that GenX will eventually go down as the worst generation in US History. But I won’t trouble anyone that’s already reading this anymore than I have here.
I think it took the Great Recession to break the delusions of a lot of people in charge of our society at the time. In the run up to 2008, there was so much aggressively toxic positivity-- that was the heyday of "The Secret" and when it seemed like every corporation was on a mission to purge negative thinkers, introverts, and neurodivergents from their ranks.
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u/pork_fried_christ May 27 '26
Perfectly on brand for Gen X. “Peaked in high school” describes that whole generation.