This is exactly the reason Billy Joel wrote We Didn’t Start the Fire.
Every generation has its challenges.
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Toss in the existential threat of nuclear war and you can include genx
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Not to mention the many "once in a lifetime" nature events that have happened as well.
Lol. The worst thing that can happen is war. I will be very grateful if I don't have to endure it in my lifetime.
But burgerstanis surrounded by two oceans are complaining about burgers and gas while sowing death and conflict around the world.
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Millennials didn’t have to do anything or worry about anything at all with Y2K. I’m an older millennial and we were barely of working age.
Living through, not working through.
There was constant reports about how disastrous it was going to be if it wasn’t fixed. That puts some strain on people. I remember thinking that it didn’t matter what I did for a job if everything collapses.
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I was rippin' Rust a few years ago, especially after reading Stephen Markley's The Deluge and having a bit of a breakdown. Then I was
Then the anxiety counter got to 999,999 and ticked back over to 000,000 and broke, so now I'm just sorta
getting more weird and whimsy instead of more anxious.
I don't have any kids of my own. I feel sorry for the other people's kids but I wish them all the best in the cannibal wars to come.
I ain't even thirty and I only "missed" Y2K, ha.
There was a lot of toilet paper and investing in gold.
In retrospect, I wish I had dumped my savings into gold rather than buying that sweet Matrix leather jacket.
Blow jobs are fleeting. Gold is forever.
Hmm, not a good sign that this meme is being extended every few years...
Yeah, as a fresh 44 year old, I’d really love to have a boring decade where nothing much happens. Just a bit of a breather before the inevitable climate wars. I’ve lived through so many ‘once in a lifetime’ events, it’s not even funny.
So, when do we get.. A break? Like did Karma get really high and forgot to help us out or? Do we get that peaceful life yet? Or are we doomed to forever being the witnesses and victims to this horrible time line?
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On the older side of millennial, I vaguely remember the opening news broadcasts of the Gulf war.
I'm trying to remember the name of it, but there's a micro-generation made up of late X and early millennial (Like 78-85 or sokething) that's seen as the transition generation from the analog world to the digital world.
We're old enough to clearly remember pre-digital/internet life, but young enough to have been exposed to tech while our brains were still developing. We're the generation that's comfortable in both worlds.
We're also good with computers generally because we developed alongside them and had to learn more about their inner workings and quirks as they were less automatic. All my new college graduates at work are surprisingly illiterate on tech because they grew up in a world of apps that are so automated they didn't have to learn anything.
Stuff as simple as navigating a network is weird to them, because they're used to apps just handling stuff like file locations.
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Generation X lived through the Cold War, the oil crisis, the Powell Memo (the beginning of the corporate takeover), Reaganomics, neoliberal deregulation, the aids epidemic, the threat of nuclear annihilation, Y2K, 9/11, a pandemic, 2 economic recessions, and a possible AI apocalypse along with more nuclear annihilation threats and watches as America turns into a fascist hellscape all before they hit 57 years old.
Yay, we win.
Dot.com bust?
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Like we can afford to smoke.