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Why Generation X Might Be Our Last, Best Hope
Caught between vast, self-regarding waves of boomers and millennials, Generation X is steeped in irony, detachment, and a sense of dread. One of their rank argues that this attitude makes it the best suited to preserve American tradition in these dark new days.

................Irony and a keen sense of dread are what make Generation X the last great hope, with its belief that, even if you could tell other people what to say and what not to say, even if you could tell them how to live, even if you could enforce those rules through social pressure and public shaming, why would you want to? I mean, it’s just so uncool.

I never really believed the notion of a generation. If four people are born every second of every day, how can you have a generation? But I get it now. A generation is the creation of shared experiences, the things that happened, the things you all did and listened to and read and went through and, as important, the things that did not happen. We are the last generation to grow up with crappy video games, with actual arcades instead of quality home consoles. If you wanted to play, you had to leave the house and mix it up with the ruffians. That is, we are the last Americans to have the old-time childhood, wherein you were assigned a bully along with a homeroom teacher. Our childhood was closer to those of the 1950s than to whatever they’re doing today. It was coherent, hands-on, dirty, and fun......

bandl wrote:I've always thought it quite asinine that someone might think a person born in 1981 ("Gen X") more readily identifies with a person born in 1961 (also considered a "Gen X") than a person born in 1982 ("Millennial").

That's assuming Gen X is 1961-1981, then Millennials are considered 1982 to 2002. A quick look at the googles shows me that there are many differing year ranges. Doesn't matter what the year range is though.

bandl wrote:I've always thought it quite asinine that someone might think a person born in 1981 ("Gen X") more readily identifies with a person born in 1961 (also considered a "Gen X") than a person born in 1982 ("Millennial").

That's assuming Gen X is 1961-1981, then Millennials are considered 1982 to 2002. A quick look at the googles shows me that there are many differing year ranges. Doesn't matter what the year range is though.

bandl wrote:I've always thought it quite asinine that someone might think a person born in 1981 ("Gen X") more readily identifies with a person born in 1961 (also considered a "Gen X") than a person born in 1982 ("Millennial").

That's assuming Gen X is 1961-1981, then Millennials are considered 1982 to 2002. A quick look at the googles shows me that there are many differing year ranges. Doesn't matter what the year range is though.

bandl wrote:That's assuming Gen X is 1961-1981

Gil Dobie wrote:

bandl wrote:I've always thought it quite asinine that someone might think a person born in 1981 ("Gen X") more readily identifies with a person born in 1961 (also considered a "Gen X") than a person born in 1982 ("Millennial").

That's assuming Gen X is 1961-1981, then Millennials are considered 1982 to 2002. A quick look at the googles shows me that there are many differing year ranges. Doesn't matter what the year range is though.

Gen X is generally considers 1965-80.

AZGrizFan wrote:

bandl wrote:I've always thought it quite asinine that someone might think a person born in 1981 ("Gen X") more readily identifies with a person born in 1961 (also considered a "Gen X") than a person born in 1982 ("Millennial").

That's assuming Gen X is 1961-1981, then Millennials are considered 1982 to 2002. A quick look at the googles shows me that there are many differing year ranges. Doesn't matter what the year range is though.

1961 isn't Gen-X. It's late boomer.....

bandl wrote:

AZGrizFan wrote:
1961 isn't Gen-X. It's late boomer.....

What part of this was difficult for you to understand?

"A quick look at the googles shows me that there are many differing year ranges. Doesn't matter what the year range is though."

bandl wrote:

Gil Dobie wrote:
Gen X is generally considers 1965-80.

What part of this was difficult for you to understand?

"A quick look at the googles shows me that there are many differing year ranges. Doesn't matter what the year range is though."

AZGrizFan wrote:

bandl wrote:
What part of this was difficult for you to understand?

"A quick look at the googles shows me that there are many differing year ranges. Doesn't matter what the year range is though."

I'm 1962, a late boomer, and I have nothing in common with someone born in 1981. Hell, I'd already graduated HS by that point. I get your point. But 1961 ain't Gen-X. Just correcting your obvious mistake before somebody flamesprays you for it.

bandl wrote:Thinking that a person usually identifies more with someone born 20 years prior to them versus someone born the year after them is just stupid to the 6.93rd degree.

bandl wrote:I googled "Gen X" and this is the first thing that pops us

https://www.google.com/search?q=gen+x+y ... e&ie=UTF-8

Generation X
Generation X, or Gen X, is the demographic cohort following the baby boomers and preceding the Millennials. Wikipedia
Period: 1961 – 1981

That's what I went with. But like I said, the year range doesn't matter. Thinking that a person usually identifies more with someone born 20 years prior to them versus someone born the year after them is just stupid to the 6.93rd degree.

89Hen wrote:

bandl wrote:Thinking that a person usually identifies more with someone born 20 years prior to them versus someone born the year after them is just stupid to the 6.93rd degree.

That would be stupid, but since Gen X only covers 10 years, your point is moot.

bandl wrote:I googled "Gen X" and this is the first thing that pops us

https://www.google.com/search?q=gen+x+y ... e&ie=UTF-8

Generation X
Generation X, or Gen X, is the demographic cohort following the baby boomers and preceding the Millennials. Wikipedia
Period: 1961 – 1981

That's what I went with. But like I said, the year range doesn't matter. Thinking that a person usually identifies more with someone born 20 years prior to them versus someone born the year after them is just stupid to the 6.93rd degree.

bandl wrote:

89Hen wrote: That would be stupid, but since Gen X only covers 10 years, your point is moot.

I've Asked Jeeves and found 10 year, 15 year and 20 year ranges. Starting in 1960, 1961, 1965, etc.

Honestly, what is the real definition that supercedes all others?

CAA Flagship wrote:

bandl wrote:I googled "Gen X" and this is the first thing that pops us

https://www.google.com/search?q=gen+x+y ... e&ie=UTF-8

Generation X
Generation X, or Gen X, is the demographic cohort following the baby boomers and preceding the Millennials. Wikipedia
Period: 1961 – 1981

That's what I went with. But like I said, the year range doesn't matter. Thinking that a person usually identifies more with someone born 20 years prior to them versus someone born the year after them is just stupid to the 6.93rd degree.

So what you are saying is that a 20 year period is too long. I get that argument. It should be more like 15 years. But the question is where the cutoff lies. Nobody gives a shit in their first 10 years of life. The cultural influences occur after that. But should the cutoff be when a person is 10, 15 or 20 years old? As a person born in 61, I was probably more influenced by the 80's more than any time period since I was in my 20's then. But a person born in 75 is not as influenced by the 80's.

89Hen wrote:

bandl wrote: I've Asked Jeeves and found 10 year, 15 year and 20 year ranges. Starting in 1960, 1961, 1965, etc.

Honestly, what is the real definition that supercedes all others?

Mine

bandl wrote:

AZGrizFan wrote:
I'm 1962, a late boomer, and I have nothing in common with someone born in 1981. Hell, I'd already graduated HS by that point. I get your point. But 1961 ain't Gen-X. Just correcting your obvious mistake before somebody flamesprays you for it.

Gramps, we''ll all wait for you to get your bifocals on and choke down your daily metamucil. Then you can get back to us when you're all caught up.

AZGrizFan wrote:

bandl wrote: Gramps, we''ll all wait for you to get your bifocals on and choke down your daily metamucil. Then you can get back to us when you're all caught up.

Says the guy who got it wrong in the first place.

You can't fix stupid. bandel is living proof.