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As a millennial, GenX seems like the most reasonable generation to me. They got the best of a lot of things. (Very anecdotal) * Excellent Music - Top tier Roc

by screye 6y ago

As a millennial, GenX seems like the most reasonable generation to me. They got the best of a lot of things. (Very anecdotal) * Excellent Music - Top tier Rock and Rap * Moderate on Politics - Saw the evils of Communism, but don't have the rosy eyed image of Capitalism as 2008/2000 hit them at critical ages (20-30) in their lives. * Less involved in identity politics - Went to college before campus activism was based around identity. * Understanding of the Millenial's struggles, cautiously liberal, and stuck in a terrible housing market because Boomers refuse to die. Sadly, The Boomer's stranglehold over politics has affected them the most. This is most evident in this [1] graph, where the GenX wave clearly never came and Millenials are already nipping at their heels with Jon Ossof in the senate. This is visible in in presidential runs too. Obama, McCain, Trump, Bernie, Warren, Kamala and Biden are all Boomers or older. Yang and Pete came closest, which is still embarrassingly far for a generation at the top of the Presidential age bell curve [2]. [1] https://flowingdata.com/2021/02/01/age-generations-in-the-u-s-senate-over-time/ https://flowingdata.com/2021/02/01/age-generations-in-the-u-... [2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Age_distribution_United_States_Presidents.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Age_dist...

UncleOxidant 6y ago
It seems like I saw something about how the majority of folks arrested so far for the Jan 6th insurrection were X'ers.
- SketchySeaBeast 6y ago
  Young enough to still want to protest, old enough to be slower than the rest.
cmrdporcupine 6y ago
Honestly, the political tone of my generation (Gen X) as youth was resoundingly apathetic and cynical, and this was remarked on at the time. At least in North America. The early 90s was a terrible recession where I was. It went along with the drab grunge music and the floppy fashions. There were no cranes on the skyline, and minimum wage was the deal, if you could get a job after high school at all. A pretty bleak time. (It wasn't until the mid-90s that things picked up and then it went from all that plaid and grey and "I'd be really angry but even that is too much work" to the hayday of late 90s rave culture and total excess) I was very politically active and radical, but I was definitely in a minority.
monksy 6y ago
* Had the chance to make mistakes and learn from them - * Had a sense of privacy (pre-facebook)

by screye 6y ago

UncleOxidant 6y ago

It seems like I saw something about how the majority of folks arrested so far for the Jan 6th insurrection were X'ers.

SketchySeaBeast 6y ago
Young enough to still want to protest, old enough to be slower than the rest.

cmrdporcupine 6y ago

Honestly, the political tone of my generation (Gen X) as youth was resoundingly apathetic and cynical, and this was remarked on at the time. At least in North America. The early 90s was a terrible recession where I was. It went along with the drab grunge music and the floppy fashions. There were no cranes on the skyline, and minimum wage was the deal, if you could get a job after high school at all. A pretty bleak time. (It wasn't until the mid-90s that things picked up and then it went from all that plaid and grey and "I'd be really angry but even that is too much work" to the hayday of late 90s rave culture and total excess) I was very politically active and radical, but I was definitely in a minority.

monksy 6y ago

* Had the chance to make mistakes and learn from them - * Had a sense of privacy (pre-facebook)