Comments on: I Hate The Phrase ‘Generation X’

By: Gary Graham

Gary Graham — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:22:38 +0000

Michael — Late to the party…but I love this post. Thanks for the insight into the Vid Gamers! As one is my partner, Jace Hall ("V") who also created Monolith Games…it behooves me to grok these things. Thanks!

By: Stupid Kids

Stupid Kids — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:38:40 +0000

Some miserable Gen-X crybaby named StevDen whined, “I have actually seen with my own eyes minority boys openly groping and fondling embarassed crying white girls in school and when the white kids tried to do something about it, chanting and gang fights broke out and then the cops showed up…and then on the news that night they were talking about how us white kids were causing trouble and being intolerant. Seen it with my own eyes and been there. I’ve seen with my own eyes a minority guy pull his pants down and urinate right in the school hallway in front of god and everybody.”

Sounds like your BEEF is not with Boomers but with asinine BLACK PEOPLE!
Why don’t you get it straight in your head WHO exactly you are P1$$ED AT? It would help if you would start by NAMING the Offenders instead of calling them “MINORITIES.”

Shows how dumb and naive and poorly educated YOUR generation is; all you kids know is the POLITICAL CORRECTNESS you’ve been indoctrinated and brainwashed with, compliments of the ACLU and Liberal nitwits who seem to be running the schools nowadays.

By: Stupid Kids

Stupid Kids — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:37:06 +0000

Sounds like your BEEF is not with Boomers but with asinine BLACK PEOPLE!
Why don’t you get it straight in your head WHO exactly you are PI$$ED AT? It would help if you would start by NAMING the Offenders instead of calling them “MINORITIES.”

By: stevden

stevden — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:36:15 +0000

I’m a GenX at 41 and I’ll tell you what instilled conservative values in me. We GenX kids were the kids who had to actually endure (during the 70’s) the social engineering created by the boomers in the 60’s. The forced busing still certainly sticks out in my mind. I have actually seen with my own eyes minority boys openly groping and fondling embarassed crying white girls in school and when the white kids tried to do something about it, chanting and gang fights broke out and then the cops showed up…and then on the news that night they were talking about how us white kids were causing trouble and being intolerant. Seen it with my own eyes and been there. I’ve seen with my own eyes a minority guy pull his pants down and urinate right in the school hallway in front of god and everybody.
But what I remember most in a geo-political sense was the impact of Jimmy Carter and how depressed everything seemed. The gas lines…everybody just seemed poor…the world was coming to and end crap.

And then Ronald Reagan was such a breath of fresh air. I will be forever grateful to his memory for saving us from whatever crap that was in the 70’s.

I dispise the counter-culture hippie crap…because I had to grow up under the power of such people.

By: stillers

stillers — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:38:02 +0000

Generation X?? Thats a punk rock band. Billy Idol was in it.

I prefer to call myself a Reagan kid. I was a teen in the 80s. That was an alright decade. I even miss the Soviets. They at least weren’t crazy. I do miss my Commodore 64.

By: Humboldt Truth

Humboldt Truth — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:58:54 +0000

“To say that my generation has a ‘high affinity for technology’ is to totally disregard the hand we had in creating it.”-Very well put. Our stolen credit is long overdue.
Thanks For putting it like it is (Like it REALLY is).

By: Guido Costantini

Guido Costantini — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:06:43 +0000

Indulging a moment more in the probably pointless and wild over generalizations about generations’ divides, there is another thing to be said about Generation X.

Due to video games, our generation was the first to stay at home alone in front of their computers (personal!) rather than socialize AND read books. It might very well be that we wasted too much time on videogames and, nowadays, on internet AND videogames and lost quite a bit of opportunities.

At least, however, our games had often an educational value: yes, we had the load of shoot’em’up, but also real wargames which taught us history and strategic games that told us that to reach an objective you had to wisely invest early on, just to make an example.

I think generation Y is the playstation generation… lots of hype and graphics, almost no content.

By: Michael 1

Michael 1 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:11:09 +0000

Born in ‘82 here. I generally view Gen X as people a few years older than me, but I guess I qualify. My parents came from the biggest boom of the Baby Boom (’55 for dad, ‘57 for mom), and I had a wonderful child as the son of two Reagen Revolutionaries (if you’d like a fairly accurate depiction of my dad, imagine Alex P. Keaton as a software salesmen and you get the basic idea). I’m an artist so I tend to view things from a more cultural side of things, and I’ve noticed an interesting dichotomy in people my age. We tend to view things from, oh, the end of WWII to about the Jeennedy assassination as really cool. But stuff that happened after it, hippies, disco, etc. as incredibly stupid and lame. Until, of course, you get to the Smurfs, He-Man and above all Ducktales (good conservative show, go watch it again somtime and you’ll be surprised), and we like that stuff again. There’s also this interesting dichotomy of lving new technology while loving older art and culture. Pixar is a great example of this, they use some very advanced graphics technology to tell basically old-fashioned stories, with old-fashioned values, and often old fashioned artistic styles (watch the credit sequences for the Incredibles, Ratatouille, and Wall-E).

By the way Michael, excellent citation of Chesterton. I was contemplating the baby boomers and their relationship to the next generation awhile ago, and I came up with a single sentence. “A generation that spent all its youth saying ‘never trust anyone in authority,’ when they came into authority shocked and angered to find that no one was listening to them.”

By: Michael McGruther

Michael McGruther — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:46:48 +0000

HERE’S SWEETER IRONY – I’m using my personal computer that I built by myself to post this.

And If you really are anti-state then I think you are referring to anarchist beliefs, not Republican ones. An anarchist is anti-state. Another word for them is PUNK. Republicans want less government, not no government. Government is a necessary evil — not THE evil.

By: Sweet Irony

Sweet Irony — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:28:59 +0000

Ironic is it not that computers were developed when the US government handed out huge subsidies to companies like IBM to do their R&D. Welfare to the rich. So much for free market rhetoric and lack of State control. Knowledge is Power, it would help Conservatives greatly if they did not utter such nonsense.

I am anti State, and dislike the way noble Republican beliefs have been ’socialized’ and lied about in public.