It isn’t really the character traits I’m criticizing though. I share some of them. For context I’ve been getting a lot of “you know you’re gen x” memes in my social media feed and couldn’t help but notice quite a lot of chuddy comments with no push back at all. So, yea, the commenter sample is biased to people who identify with the term “gen x” rather than all people in that age bracket. It just got me bummed. Like how can you watch things get worse and worse in terms of inequality as you age and become MORE conservative. It was the exact opposite for me so I just don’t get it.
I am Gen X, so I know a lot of Gen X people, and maybe 2% of them are conservative. Of course my own social circle isn't indicative of an entire generation either, but I don't know anyone my age who acts like you described. Although, apathy is kind of our superpower, born of necessity, so I can see how that bothers an emotional generation. We've been outnumbered by the Boomers our entire lives, and then by the millennials later, so we've never been able to enact much societal change. It's not that we never cared, it's that our concern was always ineffectual due to being constantly outnumbered, and thus was born our motto, "whatever". We did help build the internet though, as well as the machines that run it.
It isn’t really the character traits I’m criticizing though. I share some of them. For context I’ve been getting a lot of “you know you’re gen x” memes in my social media feed and couldn’t help but notice quite a lot of chuddy comments with no push back at all. So, yea, the commenter sample is biased to people who identify with the term “gen x” rather than all people in that age bracket. It just got me bummed. Like how can you watch things get worse and worse in terms of inequality as you age and become MORE conservative. It was the exact opposite for me so I just don’t get it.
I am Gen X, so I know a lot of Gen X people, and maybe 2% of them are conservative. Of course my own social circle isn't indicative of an entire generation either, but I don't know anyone my age who acts like you described. Although, apathy is kind of our superpower, born of necessity, so I can see how that bothers an emotional generation. We've been outnumbered by the Boomers our entire lives, and then by the millennials later, so we've never been able to enact much societal change. It's not that we never cared, it's that our concern was always ineffectual due to being constantly outnumbered, and thus was born our motto, "whatever". We did help build the internet though, as well as the machines that run it.