Sounds like wishful thinking if you ask me.
Gen X didn’t rebel - instead, rebellion was packaged and sold to us by our corporate overlords and we were far too ignorant to even realize it.
All jokes aside, I feel lucky to be a generation that for all intents and purposes has flown under the radar.
We had and still have our shit together and didn’t fuck up anything so bad that fingers get pointed at us…unlike just about every other generation in history.
I see that as the cause. The boomers held on tight to power, shafting Gen X in many ways. They still got to ride the coat tails of wealth, but were often kept out of top leadership (see federal gov for the premier example). And I’m sure that had a pretty powerful impact on Gen X’s ability to flourish culturally. They were willing to stay in line with boomer culture because they got paid enough.
Millennials were effectively pushed out of the wealth, so they were/are willing to break norms because it never paid off to do everything “right” anyway. And now Gen Z knows everything’s fucked. Godspeed.
no matter what new music format came out, I listened to the same 10 bands on it
Ackshually, I don’t listen to Faith No More anymore. So it’s the same 9 bands.
Blasphemy. You should take it Easy, because We Care a Lot, and need More!
Culturally irrelevant or culturally apathetic?
I don’t give two shits about being “relevant” I just get shit done.
Do not fuck with us. We still know how to read a map, argue in real life, and find information in an encyclopedia.
When the world ends, we are your only hope of figuring anything out.
I’m not irrelevant - look at my irrelevant, trivially easy, by no means unique skills.
I guess those arguing in real life skills of yours don’t translate to the Internet - putting disaffected grunts, performative disinterest, and over the top sarcasm into text is difficult.
None of these are genx specific.
GPS only became standard in the last 10 years, and millennial are in their 40s.
Encyclopedias have informational blurbs, but often lack nuance and aren’t how you get subject matter expertise and real-life arguments happen every holiday.
These arguments are about as sensical as saying kids NEED to learn cursive more than they need to learn home key.
The chances of the internet going away are actually pretty slim. Being able to navigate the internet is more important than any of those things.