As one firmly in Gen X, I often remark to younger generations that we could actually see the Boomers' ladder being pulled up behind them, rungs slipping out of

As one firmly in Gen X, I often remark to younger generations that we could actually see the Boomers' ladder being pulled up behind them, rungs slipping out of our fingers. Nor was it just tuition, opportunities, and so on; we went from nervous anticipation of the sexual freedom that had been quite popular to a dreadful SEX = DEATH, with GRID and the uncertainties of whether or not it was a virus, and if so, how easily it was transmitted. The future was so bright, it just looked like an atomic flash. We are a small cohort and I sometimes wonder if we are less slackers than just preemptively traumatized, waiting for the other shoe to drop like a neutron bomb, The Road Warrior as training for those who wish to survive, holding our collective breath waiting for the apocalypse to finally show up. What a puny plan.