Generation X is sick of your bullshit.
....Generation X is tired of your sense of entitlement. Generation X also
graduated during a recession. It had even shittier jobs, and actually
had to pay for its own music. (At least, when music mattered most to
it.) Generation X is used to being fucked over. It lost its meager
savings in the dot-com bust. Then came George Bush, and 9/11, and the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Generation X bore the brunt of all that.
And then came the housing crisis.
Generation X wasn’t surprised. Generation X kind of expected it....Generation X is used to being ignored, stuffed between two much larger,
much more vocal, demographics. But whatever! Generation X is
self-sufficient. It was a latchkey child. Its parents were too busy
fulfilling their own personal ambitions to notice any of its
trophies—which were admittedly few and far between because they were
only awarded for victories, not participation.
Right now, Generation X just wants a beer and to be left alone. It just
wants to sit here quietly and think for a minute. Can you just do that,
okay? It knows that you are so very special and so very numerous, but can you just leave it alone? Just for a little bit? Just long enough to sneak one last fucking cigarette? No?
- Generation X Doesn’t Want to Hear It
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