They say that in all the generation wars (which are phoney anyway) Generation X (1965 to 1980) are the forgotten generation.
And that’s the way it ought to be.
We were the ones who were supposed to bring in a kinder, more caring community. But five minutes in, most of us got disillusioned and gave up. And despite all our rage, we’re still just a rat in a cage.
Meanwhile, a lot of the conservatives we like to dismiss as boomers yearning for the past are in fact, Generation X.
Scott Morrison was born in 1968.
Peter Dutton, 1970.
Liz Truss, 1975.
Ron DeSantis, 1978. That’s right, the guy who is taking the
Florida education system back to the 19th century isn’t even 45 yet!
Rishi Sunak, right on the cusp having been born in 1980.
You could accuse me of cherry-picking the worst examples but who else do we have, Liam Gallagher?
It wasn’t supposed to be this way, but these were the go-getters of our generation and we let it happen. This is on us. WB Yeats could have been thinking about Gen-X when he wrote The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
I don’t hate boomers. I don’t hate millennials. I hate Generation X.
… which is about the most Gen-X thing you can do.
