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I take your statement to be a bit tongue-in-cheek, but if you're unfamiliar with Strauss-Howe generational theory[0], you'd think there would be another "good g

• Darmody 6y ago
  While I do think we went kind of downhill since gen x, I wrote that comment as a joke. You actually could argue that new generations are worse because we're lazier, hedonists, more disrespectful, etc or you could argue that boomers and gen x are actually the bad ones that left everything in such a bad state that following generations spent decades to make everything right again.
  • Clubber 6y ago
    GenX isn't even in power yet for the most part. Most of the people representing us in government are the Boomers. >because we're lazier, hedonists, more disrespectful, etc Also, "they" said the same stuff about GenX.
    • rmah 6y ago
      "they" said the same thing about boomers too. and the silent generation before them. and ...
    • ryandrake 6y ago
      GenX will never be in power. There aren’t enough of us. They’ll just skip us and once the Boomers die off, we will be a handful of elderly kooks watching Seinfeld reruns and dealing with Millennials making all the rules for themselves.
  • throwaway6734 6y ago
    >You actually could argue that new generations are worse because we're lazier, hedonists, more disrespectful, etc None of this is true
    • Darmody 6y ago
      I didn't say it is, I said you could argue that. And depending on your point of view it could be true for you.