Generation X
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Generation X worked all our lives, lived and came of age during the 1980s. Each generation hopes to hand their child’s generation a better life than they lived. Generation X witnessed the last vestiges of the “Cold War,” the last vestiges of traditional Conservatism wiped away with neo-Conservatism and Cultural Marxism, the birth of Gaming, a space shuttle explode, the Berlin Wall and Soviet Union implode, the US Olympic Men’s Hockey Team beating the Soviets, Heavy Metal, the AIDS epidemic, onset of mass immigration into the United States from Mexico, Central & South America, hippies become “yuppie” Boomers, actually paid for our music, VCRs, cassette tapes, and something called MTV.
Many GenXers were just born when the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were under construction. We never had iPhones, iPads, Android phones, cell phones, or any phones that were “smart.” No caller ID – if the phone rang in my home, you took a chance! It could be anyone! We actually had to program a VCR and hoped it actually recorded what it was supposed to.
If you wanted to record a song you had to buy the cassette tape, and rewind the thing just to play that one favorite song again and again. If the tape broke, you were screwed. Or you camped out in front of the radio trying to record your song, hoping the DJ would shut up and not talk through the first 45 seconds and ruin it. We did not have cell phones, or text messaging. If we were not home by six o’clock, we were in deep shit with our parents.
Even our parents’ friends had permission to smack us. Nowhere was safe. If you wanted to date a girl, you actually….had to go up to her, approach her…and ask her to her face. Social media was you and your friends going to the mall – to meet everyone else and gossip. Twitter was passing notes during class, then lunch during high school.
Generation X made life cool again. We did not need Facebook pages, MySpace, or other social media nu-Male memes to tell you how cool Gen X is. Generation X is ungraciously sandwiched between the Baby Boomers (our parents) moaning about Social Security cuts; and the Millennials, or ‘Generation Y’ with their Intersectional Feminism (what even is that?) and social justice whining about how life is so unfair, the world is “sooo messed up” because racism and toxic masculinity. To both preceding and succeeding generations, I will not offer a “thank you for the wisdom” or “good luck out there Yers,” I say to the Boomers and Millennials – get lost.
Generation Xers are facing the real prospect of Social Security insolvency, and no Medicare or Medicaid. Who is going to take care of Gen X when we reach retirement age? The whiney spoiled ungrateful Millennials who cannot unglue themselves from their digital reality-life on their smart phones and social media networks? Gen X will take care of ourselves like we always have.
We are the middle child in this generational rivalry. The Boomers are the self-righteous firstborn, the Millennials are the spoiled rotten younger sibling. We are the forgotten middle child, our successes and cultural tragedies overlooked in this generational tug-of-war. The Millennials are today’s teens and twenty-something’s, lamenting about the dismal job market and how the world could be handed to them in such a chaotic state.
These digital Yers just love gadgets and digital toys – Apple, Xbox, PS4, smart phones, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter. They love to see themselves as pseudo-celebrities starring in their own reality-shows. They love celebrities. They love social media. They love brand names . . . and follow trends rather than set them. Millennials are happy to do whatever advertising tells them to. They cannot manage to read anything longer than an instant message or text to communicate thoughts and extrapolate new information.
Presidents George H. W. Bush, Clinton, George Bush Jr., and Obama were our political punishment while soon to be President Donald J. Trump is a cultural backlash to Cultural Marxist hyper-feminism and political correctness. Concurrently, Trump will also be a social pressure release for pent up “right-wing” nationalist principles on which this country was founded.
Generation Xers earned a living through hard work without the Internet while the Millennials complain about greed, and a dismal job because for Millennials, greed is not just “good” it is now legal. In the era of YouTube views, self-publishing, and Facebook pages, money and fame are easy to come by. Sometimes all it takes is a sex tape or cover song. Millennials now enjoy the social security blankets of the Internet’s crowdfunding phenomenon; which amounts to digital panhandling while Millennials “create content.” Generation Xers echo the self-righteous scolding of our Boomer parents: we had to work for our money, and we made money the old fashioned way; we earned it.
“Generation X” was first coined and later disowned by Douglas Coupland, author of the 1991 book Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. Coupland signified the letter ‘X’ for what he perceived as our generation’s random, ambiguous contradiction. In 2014, 70 million Baby Boomers reached retirement age, while Generation X assumed leadership positions in the world just in time for a Culture War shift triggered by GamerGate.
Generation X produced several Internet millionaires, but Census Bureau estimates have Generation X men grossing less income than our fathers did at our ages. Economic recessions are not unfamiliar to us, since Xers walked out of the economic wreckage of the past eight years. Xers managed to salvage entrepreneurship and start-up their own businesses from the dot-com meltdowns of the 1990s and the disaster of the Bush-Clinton globalist crime syndicate.
Generation X traveled the world whether on scholarships, savings, academic programs, tax refunds, or business. Xers once had a natural curiosity to explore their ancestral heritage concurrently with other cultures, specifically Japanese culture which is popular with both Generation X and Millennials. Now an entire generation faces the very real dissolution of their European heritage through Cultural Marxist policies like mass immigration into European nations by African and Arab “migrants and refugees.”
Media stereotypes in GenXer films like “Singles,” “Reality Bites,” and “Clerks” painted a picture of Generation Xers as overeducated underachievers, slackers and losers. Yet Xers defy all cultural and social demographic; always defy the economic odds under a Boomer ruined economy Xers have still managed to profit from.
The sheer scope of political, international, economic and environmental disasters that have occurred over the course of the Bush, Clinton, and Obama disasters leaves Generation X with no choice but to begin to go about the business of saving the world from the threat of Globalism, and in the process, making it cool again.
Similar to mafia “cleaners” who remove bullet-riddled bodies and ‘clean’ up bloody aftermaths of mob business, Generation Xers are the cleaners of the bloody social & cultural wreckage left behind by the environmental, political, international, and economic mafia-level policies of Bush, Clinton, and Obama’s disastrous Globalist policies. Generation X is like ‘Winston Wolfe’ from Quentin Tarantino’s hit Pulp Fiction. We solve problems. And like Keyser Söze, the gangster antagonist in the 1995 film The Usual Suspects, society will not even know we are on the scene until it is too late.
Generation X comes from traditional demographics and finds itself on the frontlines of a cultural war that will determine the future of Western Civilization. Our struggle against Globalism is streamed live. Generation X will save the world from Globalist anti-Western, anti-American hatred and the social and political wreckage of the Boomer generation. As the 1980s came to a close, most Xers were too drunk, infuriated, disillusioned – few were hopeful about the future.
What did the future bring for Generation X – September 11 attacks under Israel’s shadow, the Bush and Clinton looting of the American economy, horrific 1990s “music,” “Intersectional Feminism,” “Hip-Hop” and pornography exploding into a billion-dollar industry both of which exist to subvert masculinity of white men, entire industries move overseas due to Globalist trade pacts, coordinated legislative efforts to restrict firearms ownership, and a longstanding Culture War where the tide is slowly beginning to shift….with the help of Generation Z.
