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re: Is Generation X truly the Lost Generation?
Posted on 6/15/17 at 4:12 am to redstick13
Posted on 6/15/17 at 4:12 am to redstick13
"The lost generation" mantra is because we basically raised ourselves. Between latch kids keys, high divorce rates, and the beginning of the computer age, we became a lot smarter than are parents about the time we were in high school.
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Posted on 6/15/17 at 4:16 am to Rebel
There's a cool book called The Fourth Turning and it describes how generations are cyclical. It literally describes Gen X as the modern version of the 20's lost generation. 
And it describes millennials as the modern cycle of The Greatest Generation 
And it describes millennials as the modern cycle of The Greatest Generation 
Posted on 6/15/17 at 5:15 am to MightyYat
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Wat? We're literally keeping this fricking ship afloat right now until the boomers die off and the Millenials get their shite together.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 5:20 am to weagle99
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Which implies there were hopes associated with the group that will never be realized
We keep the world going while the boomers and millenials keep shooting and protesting
Posted on 6/15/17 at 7:33 am to MightyYat
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Wat? We're literally keeping this fricking ship afloat right now until the boomers die off and the Millenials get their shite together.
All of this!!!!!!!!
Posted on 6/15/17 at 7:38 am to SeeeeK
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No, but they created and parented the Useless and Piece of shite Millennials.
Most Millennials are children of the Boomers.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 7:43 am to MasterofTigerBait
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Yes, and it's up to us ALPHA Millennials to pick up the slack
Alpha Millennials, that's an oxymoron if I've ever heard one. You can't be an alpha if you play with fidget spinners, live with your parents, majored 18th century women's studies, or don't know your gender.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 7:47 am to JOJO Hammer
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Alpha Millennials, that's an oxymoron if I've ever heard one. You can't be an alpha if you play with fidget spinners, live with your parents, majored 18th century women's studies, or don't know your gender.
But what about being the best video game player?
Posted on 6/15/17 at 8:06 am to Jim Rockford
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Are you a Boomer or an Xer?
I didn't know trolls kept track of generations.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 8:19 am to weagle99
I'm not sure us Gen-X types ever had "hopes", we mostly raised ourselves, we mostly feel responsible for our own happiness (it doesn't come from our job or through the recognition of others), and we'll be the first generation to change our own damn diapers in the nursing home!
Posted on 6/15/17 at 8:21 am to hogNsinceReagan
I will say this, gen x loves to complain all while saying they hate people who complain. I guess that's the old goth in them
Posted on 6/15/17 at 8:23 am to weagle99
Born in '82
I'm a Xer or Mille???
Tia
I'm a Xer or Mille???
Tia
Posted on 6/15/17 at 8:24 am to SuperSaint
You are a millennial
Posted on 6/15/17 at 8:34 am to Wally Sparks
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Most Millennials are children of the Boomers.
Millennials were the result of the dawn of the 24 hour news cycle in the 80's. Some kid would get abducted or fall in a well 2000 miles away, and it gets wall to wall coverage all over the country for a few weeks, scaring the parents (younger boomers, older Gen-X's) into helicopter parenting.
The problem only became worse when they became teenagers and all of a sudden cell phones and internet existed, increasing the number of tools available for parents to "keep tabs on" their kids well into their 20's.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 8:36 am to Smoke Ring
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And it describes millennials as the modern cycle of The Greatest Generation
Boom.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 8:40 am to MasterofTigerBait
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Yes, and it's up to us ALPHA Millennials to pick up the slack
100
Posted on 6/15/17 at 8:41 am to weagle99
Yes. Gen-X lived through the computer age transition and learned in college the old ways and entered the marketplace undergoing revolution. It created a lot of social anxiety and confusion for Gen-X.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 8:42 am to lsupride87
quote:well then frick Xers, you old bastads, let's fist fight
You are a millennial
Posted on 6/15/17 at 8:46 am to BRIllini07
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Millennials were the result of the dawn of the 24 hour news cycle in the 80's. Some kid would get abducted or fall in a well 2000 miles away, and it gets wall to wall coverage all over the country for a few weeks, scaring the parents (younger boomers, older Gen-X's) into helicopter parenting.
Nah. I was born in '86. Parents didn't give a hoot what I was doing, so long as I made it to school and didn't get arrested.
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The problem only became worse when they became teenagers and all of a sudden cell phones and internet existed, increasing the number of tools available for parents to "keep tabs on" their kids well into their 20's.
I actually moved out of the house before I had my first cell phone.
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