@dictatordave @JoshuaSlocum @Bonsai @sickburnbro >gen x are a bunch of all talk slackers who let boomers infantilize them

it's definitely true that we're a bunch of slackers, but I would argue that we infantilized our ownselves. we were told starting in the 80s that Social Security wouldn't be there for us, though we would pay into it all our lives, and that we would never achieve the living standard of our parents. 40 years ago they were telling us this. It was crystal clear that boomers were nothing but a bunch of consumer shitheels, that's where the "yuppie" perjorative came from. I remember everyone around me just looking at the whole thing (go to college! get a career! build credit!) and nope-ing out.

genX's main sin was that we saw the evil that was rising, in the form of sexual degeneracy, and we flinched (ht to PA, where is that guy?). many of us participated in it until it became clear it was the way of death. that's why I now have a late-life career of being a voice crying in the wilderness telling young wammans not to do these things, and exactly why it is bad. I don't think they heed me necessarily but at least someone is telling them the truth.