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It is gen X's time to shine!


Aaaaaand...it's gone.


It was those dang millennials, they ruined everything. Somehow.


and be blamed for every (bad) thing that happens :)


Hardly; they are outnumbered 2:1 by Millennials and Gen Z. Gen Alpha is coming out of HS, slamming into the same reality as their elder siblings.

GenX had cushy youths and young adult lives, the “start a family” time, the opportunity to afford a house or 3 by now.

GenX is the cohort leading the decline in allegiance to church and American civic life pageantry. The original “eh capitalism is just old guys selling high minded memes about human future just like religion” generation. The let’s forget “stuff” for experience.

They did not have the same pressure to sell widgets Boomers raised by a Silent Generation of post world war shellshocked Cold War paranoids huffing leaded gas fumes.

The only way I see them “shining” is by laying low like they do and let the next generation get started living a life decoupled from the olds demands we serve their vacuous decrees.


Gen Alpha has barely entered Junior High. Gen Alpha is 2010-Present, at best, putting them in 7th grade in the US.




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