ON GENERATIONS AND GENX I’m technically Gen Jones (Between Boomers and GenX) but

ON GENERATIONS AND GENX
I’m technically Gen Jones (Between Boomers and GenX) but I have a greater affinity for GenX. My gen are a little too ‘Wall Street’ and GenX is a little more ‘Breakfast Club’. Prefer the Breakfast club crowd. And culturally I’m definitely more attuned to GenX experience (Autism? must’ve matured late. 😉 ) Only bad thing about GenX is the parents of Milennials and GenZ because of working mothers and the latchkey kid effect. Cable was originally ok, but between computer games, cell phones, the internet, bad social media and overprotective absent moms, … not good.

Gen Jones
“They were children during Watergate, the oil crisis, and stagflation, and were young adults when HIV/AIDS became a worldwide threat in the 1980s. Unlike leading-edge boomers, most of Generation Jones did not grow up with World War II veterans as fathers, and, as they reached adulthood, there was no compulsory military service and no defining political cause.” (We chose biz. Gates, Jobs, etc)

Narrative:
I gotta tell ya. That I dunno what the boomers are talking about because everything I remembrer from the Kennedy assasination to the race riots to the weekly marxist bombings, to vietnam, to watergate, to the oil crisis, to carter’s screw up with the Iranian hostages – it was a SH**T time to be alive. But… the difference is we still had social life, we were still fit (not fat), had hair bands, concerts, we had lots of s*x in cars, couldn’t catch a dangerous STD, and all we had was beer and pot. When I got into college the Coke thing started and it seemed like people were dropping out of college like flies because of it. Then the AIDS thing happend and the world changed. 😉

You can’t really imagine how much everything changed from star was to the Regan recovery. It was like rebirth.

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