The Glade 4.0

http://gizmodo.com/5851062/generation-x ... r-bullshit

Generation X is sick of your bullshit.

The first generation to do worse than its parents? Please. Been there. Generation X was told that so many times that it can't even read those words without hearing Winona Ryder's voice in its heads. Or maybe it's Ethan Hawke's. Possibly Bridget Fonda's. Generation X is getting older, and can't remember those movies so well anymore. In retrospect, maybe they weren't very good to begin with.

But 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 **** 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 a journeyman. It didn't invent hip hop, or punk rock, or even electronica (it's pretty sure those dudes in Kraftwerk are boomers) but it perfected all of them, and made them its own. It didn't invent the Web, but it largely built the damn thing. Generation X gave you Google and Twitter and blogging; Run DMC and Radiohead and Nirvana and Notorious B.I.G. Not that it gets any credit.

But that's okay. 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.

In fairness, Generation X could use a better spokesperson. Barack Obama is just a little too senior to count among its own, and it has debts older than Mark Zuckerberg. Generation X hasn't had a real voice since Kurt Cobain blew his brains out, Tupac was murdered, Jeff Mangum went crazy, David Foster Wallace hung himself, Jeff Buckley drowned, River Phoenix overdosed, Elliott Smith stabbed himself (twice) in the heart, Axl got fat.

Generation X is beyond all that bullshit now. It quit smoking and doing coke a long time ago. It has blood pressure issues and is heavier than it would like to be. It might still take some ecstasy, if it knew where to get some. But probably not. Generation X has to be up really early tomorrow morning.

Generation X is tired.

It's a parent now, and there's always so damn much to do. Generation X wishes it had better health insurance and a deeper savings account. It wonders where its 30s went. It wonders if it still has time to catch up.

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 **** cigarette? No?

Whatever. It's cool.

Generation X is used to disappointments. Generation X knows you didn't even read the whole thing. It doesn't want or expect your reblogs; it picked the wrong platform.

Generation X should have posted this to LiveJournal.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Like.

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*applause*

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Well said!

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"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." - Alice R. Longworth

"Good? Bad? I'm the guy with the gun." - Ash Williams

Generation X didn't graduate in a recession.

From Wikipedia:
>>Generation X, commonly abbreviated to Gen X, is the generation born after the Western post–World War II baby boom ended.[1] While there is no universally agreed upon time frame,[2] the term generally includes people born in the 1960s through the late '70s.

Um, yeah, they did. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1980s_recession
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1990s_recession

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

So an entire generation fit into 2 year slots?

Generation Y is also sick of Generation Y's bullshit.

There are so many of my age group that feel like jobs/places to live are beneath them and they "deserve" better.

There aren't a lot of good paying easy jobs in NYC. I get that. There are a lot more out in the Midwest.

There aren't a lot of well paying jobs with Art History degrees, or even MBAs. There are a pretty decent amount of pretty well paying jobs as mechanics, welders, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, machinists, etc.

Of course, I also argue that there's a huge difference between mid-80s births and late 80s-late 90s births, much more so than between mid 70s and mid 80s. Most of my peers born 2-4 years younger than I am seem to have a radically different worldview- few of them really remember life before cell phones and computers.

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

Generation Y is all lazy, entitled individuals.

All Republicans are religious extremists.

Generalizations are stupid.

we Gen Y'ers may act entitled, but you Gen X'ers are a bunch of emo whiners! :p /neener

I was born in early 1980, so I feel like I'm on the cusp...for the first few years of my life we didn't have any technology in our house. I remember our first Atari, our first computer was an Apple II C I think. In 5th grade we had Commodore 64's I think in our computer lab....we played some dungeons and dragons math game where you have to answer a math question right in order to enter a room or cast a spell or something. And we still had rotary phones in our house and no answering machine. When my dad got a car phone it was the coolest thing ever, even though it weighed about 20lbs but since he was an on-call surgeon at two different hospitals he had to have it, along with a pager.

Life before the internet was totally different.

Technology has improved so many things and yet destroyed so many others at the same time...gone are the days of the whole family going to the video store to pick out a movie on vhs. Gone are the days of making mixed tapes by keeping your finger on the record button on the cassette player while listening to the radio and hoping you could figure the song out in the first two notes so you would press record in time....so many things changed....man, I was still using a cassette player until I was a sophomore in high-school.

Actually having to use encyclopedia sets, having to look words up in a dictionary, using the card-catalog at the library...I grew up with all those things and they've all been replaced by the internet. It's kinda weird.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Every generation has it's whiners. The Greatest Generation complained about the Boomers slacking off and being too indulged. Live with it.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

+1

For some reason, I thought you were older than that. It does put your job search in a different (more positive) light though- finding employment with gaps in your employment history is easier the younger you are.

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

I'm 10 years younger than NF.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Ooh, so he's robbing the cradle. Got it

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Darksiege: You are not a god damned vulcan homie.

Er... Based on where that generation is.... They were right.

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We live in a culture that doesn't even have half the cajones of the WWI generation.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Comparing the two generations, the Greatest Generation saved the world and rebuilt the parts that would let us. I have a lot of respect for them. The Boomers had some pretty nifty achievements too, but no, TGG has us beat hands down. Too many of us Boomers are facing a sad and sorry retirement or lack of being able to. I find it sadly amusing how many of my friends were making big money for years and were really stupid with it and now have less than nothing.

I'm fine, so is my sister. Our two brothers, not so much.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

It's funny, really. SS is so obviously a pyramid scheme that anyone capable of thought should have known to rely on themselves and not the government for their retirement.

Not that I ever expect to retire, but still...

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In time, this too shall pass.

Right now, Generation X just wants a beer and to be left alone.

Sounds like a plan to me

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History of the Condom
In 1272, the Muslim Arabs invented the condom, using a goat's lower intestine.
In 1873, the British somewhat refined the idea, by taking the intestine out of the goat first.

On it.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Me? I'm sick of everyones bullshit. I don't care what the hell generation you're from or what you think the other generation owes you or needs to stop/start doing/thinking. The generation X/Y thing is **** retarded anyways.

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Ron Paul 2012

Gee....let me guess which generation you're a part of.....

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."