It's high time we all started crapping on the Gen-Xers. For too long, they've been ducking under the slings and arrows thrown at the Boomers, which the Boomers rightly deserve, but now that Gen-X is in the age of power, having taken over most middle management positions and upper management positions in corporate power. They've also, more or less, started to take over most political positions, although Boomers are holding on to it like a dying Skeksis.
The fact is, it's Generation X that is pushing censorship in Big Tech. Yes, the Millennials are complaining about hate speech, but at the end of the day, all Gen-X has to do is tell them to fuck off, like they always did before.
Generation-X has fully embraced the values of the Boomers. They value porn. They value materialism. They value sex.
They have no regard for Jesus. They pine for the days of the 1980s when movies were better. Movies largely made by Boomers, I might add.
They are narcissists, more so than Boomers. Just reading a synopsis of Bret Eaton Ellis' works highlights this well. Sure, his works are more than likely exaggerations, but it's clear that he's exaggerating the common behaviors he's witnessed amongst his generation.
Generation-X was the punk generation. They promoted anti-authoritarianism with loud bass tones and mosh pits, exceeding the previous anti-authoritarian generation. It wasn't that they didn't trust anyone over 30, they just didn't trust anyone, not even themselves.
Then the 1990s came around. Grunge committed it's inevitable suicide. And then Generation-X sold out. Big time.
Rage Against the Machine is now Raging against the unvaccinated. The Offspring now suddenly fears death because they did not fear God. And Green Day started out with solid lyrics about the pointlessness of our teenage wasteland, only to become political faggots.
They cared only about sex, booze, and cars.
And now that they are facing their own collective mid-life crisis, they are losing their shit over a virus that won't kill them. They are looking to the government to save, the same government that they beat the living shit out of each other to defy in those underground clubs.
I'm not saying that Gen-X should have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and fixed the country. But while they are smug in their beliefs that they are not the Boomers, they certainly appear to have embraced all the values the Boomers taught them and then cranked it all up to 11, only to be horrified now that they are facing the twilight years on the horizon.
Generation X has been a big failure. And the sad thing is that they had a good example of what not to do and they just did more of the same.