I can't believe it...

[Mythsaje]

This may be the last major journal entry I put up for a while. I wanted to post something particularly thought provoking in case I don't have the opportunity to put something else up for a while.

I guess that's why I'm surprised there wasn't much of a response to this post. I thought it brought up some intriguing notions of what may be coming in the near future.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2914889&mesg_id=2914889

How many Gen Xers are on DU? Quite a few, I imagine. What do YOU think of my theory here?

[Warpy]

1. Except for the names of the bands

you described older Boomers to a T.

However, you are going to have to figure out how to force the main parties to stop offering conservative, pro business, anti labor, pro globalization, anti fair trade, anti union yes men to corporations or you are going to see the same thing we have.

Clinton and Stupid might have been close to our ages, but they didn't do a damned thing for any of us.

[Mythsaje]

2. Some people have suggested that

Gen X was hard for Madison Avenue to peg. A lot of us have never bought into the hard-sell tactics. Particularly the "slackers."

:)

[Kiouni]

3. I like it but...

there has been some debate about the character of Gen X'ers. I am right between the x and the y personally. The argument is that the Gen X'ers had all the advantages their parents did not. The baby boomers had the parenting of the "greatest generation" which instilled in them nationalism, thriftiness and strictness in religious practice. All of these attributes combined to make the baby boomer's who were single minded in their hunt for money, work hard and get ahead. But all this work gave the next generation the ability to coast on mom and dad. Live it up a little and not be so frugal. I see these attributes in my friends and peers and it doesn't surprise me that america is becoming more and more in-debt because these gen x'ers now have been around long enough to rack up some serious debt!

I'm excited about the free-thinking and encouragement that is coming. I believe a new age of philosophy is about to be upon us but their will be negatives to this as well.

[Mythsaje]

4. I see the negatives as well...

I'm just hoping the benefits outweigh the risks.