Sure, there was something behind the idea. But it was a combination of thinking: a) "Waah, life sucks, I can't get everything I want", and b) "This is somehow

Sure, there was something behind the idea. But it was a combination of thinking: a) "Waah, life sucks, I can't get everything I want", and b) "This is somehow a problem unique to my generation" both of which are universal thoughts held by the more introspective and less thoughtful members of each generation. I've never actually seen Reality Bites -- too early for me. But I've seen "Fight Club". Wow, has that movie aged badly. "We have no great war, no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives." Awww freaking diddums, Mr Durden. We have four wars and a depression, wanna swap?