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• drew_s - Nov 07 2008 | media, politics, age, obama, culture

  I liked this a lot, even as a non-Gen-X-er

  Quoted: Your earnest, self-important prattle has gotten on Gen X nerves for decades. But now we finally get it.

  Quoted: And look, we really did stand for something, underneath all the eye-rolling. We're feminists, we care about the environment, we want to improve race relations, we volunteer. We're just low-key about it. We never wanted to do it the way you did it: So unselfconscious, so optimistic, guilelessly throwing yourself behind Team Liberal. We didn't get that. We aren't joiners. We don't like carrying signs. We tend to disagree, if only on principle.

  • baorao - Nov 07 2008
    

    I like this too, after I realized that I should be thinking of it as being written from a Democrat to other Democrats. The first time through I couldn't help but think of Baby Boomers as the aging blue collar gun owners of Ohio and Pennsylvania, the last to board the bandwagon so to speak, and thinking "I don't owe them a damned thing, they almost ruined it".

  • milolutz - Nov 08 2008
    

    As a Gen-Xer who only has Boomers for siblings, it didn't speak to me. Can't put my finger on it, though. Maybe it was the narrative that 'you were right all along, Boomers'. GenXers never admit that to Boomers.

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