Baby Boomers are Jealous


Stephen M.
10/30/96
Professor Shockley

Generation X'ers have been described as "fanatically independent
individuals pathologically ambivalent about the future, and brimming with
unsatisfied longings for permanence, for love, and for material possessions."
(Lauren, p.64) This less-than-flattering description of our generation has
since been expanded by the media to the point that myself and my peers are
described as a bunch of apathetic slackers unconcerned with family values,
godless cynics resentful of the preceding generations.
Since Douglas Coupland's Book Generation X came out in 1991, many things
have been said about the twentysomethings. Labeled by Coupland and the media
as Generation X. Although the name has stuck, Coupland's book is virtually
impossible to find. Why is that? Could it be because Generation X describes us,
me, everyone who was born between the years of 1963-1983 as "white and
privileged......

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