I was born in 1981. I know this only barely qualifies me as being a member of Generation X, if at all, but in spirit, I'm more Gen X than anything else. All the best shit was made for Gen Xers. We had Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Alice in Chains, Fight Club, and the first Matrix movie (which was the only good one).
What does Generation Y have to claim as their own? Panic at the Disco. Purity rings. The Jonas Brothers. The Star Wars prequels. Twilight. Harry Potter. What the fuck happened between these two generations?
It's Generation X that's supposed to be nihilistic, but it seems like Generation Y is so nihilistic they can't even be bothered to rebel against their parents anymore. When I was a kid, the things kids did scared the shit out of their parents. Now what do they do? Listen to emo music and wear really tight jeans that make them look like a really pansy version of Patrick Swayze in Road House. What the fuck is wrong with kids today? Why are they so lame all of a sudden? Is it because their parents are Gen X slackers and the only way they can piss them off is to get white collar jobs and do what the nice corporations tell them to do?
Is it because Christians have been running everything for the last eight years? Is it because goths lost their balls and turned emo? Why is there nothing subversive anymore? Why are so many kids so content to consume such saccharine pablum?
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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