I was born in 83, and I agree. I was homeschooled, so growing up I was never part of a group of children my own age. I was smart at the time, and so I tended to

I was born in 83, and I agree. I was homeschooled, so growing up I was never part of a group of children my own age. I was smart at the time, and so I tended to spend most of my social time hanging out with folks who were 5-10 years older and absorbed a lot of culture from them. I've always identified more with the "ideals" of Generation X than with those of the Millenial generation or Generation Y. I'm cynical almost to a fault. I have extreme problems accepting un-earned authority, such that my wife said "you just aren't meant to have a boss" the other day. I really just want to be left alone to live my life in peace, like a less violent Daniel Plainview. To get meta, I think that it's probably easiest to envision generations as phases of an ideological sine wave. At any given time, one set of ideas and culture - one phase - will be dominant and will contain most of the population. However, no phase ever dies out completely - there's always a few oddballs who will find medieval chivalry, for instance, appealing. I think that you and I were just born in between the peaks of Generation X and the Millenial generation, so our values are somewhat harder to predict.