Spot on. Just read this about my generation. Made a lot of sense.
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I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s too. I look back on those times fondly. And, I thank God for being a kid during those days.
Yup, Gen X rules
Hell yeah we do!🐸🤘💖
The music was better, the cars were hotter, and the babes were beautiful and fun to hang out with, I too lived there
We’ve recently had another generation go through tough times. They were little (4-5 you) when the crash of 2008 happened and saw their parents struggle for years to make ends meet. Many were working as freshmen in high school to help pay bills. They were teens when Covid hit and saw the BS first hand and were very vocal about it. The kids from that shitstorm are gonna be fine.
Gen Z shows promise
yes, they do
I have to be honest. I read the article. Having grown up in the 1960's -- I suppose we were tougher than children nowadays. But it's all relative. Compared to our parents (the depression/WW2 generation) we were cream puffs.
I think that is true of most generations. But what stuck out for me was the independence part and the figure it out part. Pushing through no matter what life hands you. I can look back and see that over my career, the working sometimes two or three jobs to keep the lights on and feed my kids. Doing it because that's what you had to do. Today's age would expect the government to pay them while they sit on a picket line demanding McDonalds pay them $25/hr
Whatever you do don't search 60s and 70s nostalgia on YouTube or you'll be yearning for your Schwinn Stingray with the rear racing slick tire, butterfly handlebars, banana seat and sissy bar...and no freaking helmet!
With playing cards in the spokes held by clothespins!!
Ha ha no I didn't forget—I wanted to give you a chance to add it! :)
Yes!!
LOL! You forgot the spring loaded carrier over the front wheel for to place your feet on if you were riding on the handle bars....and still no helmet! Good times
I remember—just wanted you to be the one to say it!
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Yet for all that, they, I am the last of the boomers, accepted the lies to justify wars, bringing democracy, WMDs etc, and we are still falling for it.
I don't know where he gets his idea about the different generations, but he's mixing parts of two wildly different generations together to fit his opinion.
Gen X spans from roughly 1965 to 1980-82. Some people born in from 82 -85/6 I would call Gen X, also, because they don't act like typical Millenials and were born to Boomer parents that decided it would be fun to have kids later in life. If anything, I would lump those who "grew up" between 1960-1970 as late stage Boomers because a lot of you act like it. I was born in 1976 and can say unequivocally that I am Gen X, along with my peers who were born to Boomer parents.
This constant rewriting of the generational timelines is just meant to stoke more distraction and division into people to hide the damage the late stage "Silent Generation" and the Baby Boomers, those born between 1945-65 caused. The same damage that Gen X and the early Millenials Gen X was forced to help raise are now being forced to deal with. The same damage still being caused by the Boomers that still exert some power in our govts and corporations b cause they're too hypocritical and too weak mindedly opinionated to admit they caused.
I had written a longer reply to this article, but decided that would most likely earn the third or fourth timeout for me this year. So I'll leave it with this:
Stop feeding into these distraction and division tactics written by people who wish for "the good old days" to return. Those days passed us by and aren't coming back. If they ever existed in the way people you people remember them in the first place. Memories of youthful days have a way of being white-washed by our brains, a lot of times as a coping mechanism to hide guilt and shame for the negative roles a lot of people play in our society. Old age tends to make people long for their youth because most people can't or won't realize that they helped create the messes this world is in, can't bring themselves to admit their own mistakes in their roles in helping to create the messes, and who offer no real solutions to those issues. Yet deep down, their subconscious brain feels guilty while the conscious parts of their brains keep them from admitting the truth out of a warped sense of taking no responsibility for the actions they took because most people don't like learning that they are responsible for their roles in how a society evolves.
For those of you who were born between 1955/6 and 1960-62, who are the ones that would've grown up through the 60s and 70s, y'all are Boomers, and it's time you admitted it. It's also time y'all retire out of Govt and the corporate sectors, so the true Gen Xers can finally be free to help undo the damage y'all helped to create before it's too late. Because the longer this plays out the more it shows Gen X that we won't be able to retire when we want to. Y'all had your chance and you blew it.
Someone posted this video a few days ago. I found it really accurate.
This might be true in Australia, but I’m not too sure about the USA. Both these kids were raised by WWII vets, though.