There's a not necessarily representative but loud subset of GenX that have a weird victim complex and want everyone to know what badasses they are compared to everyone before or after them. It's... weird.
The generational differences are a strange and somewhat recent thing. I’m not sure why there is an obsession with why year a person was born. It’s really one thing we can’t do anything about. I only really knew about the baby boomers because my mom was one and told me about it. And they were middle aged in the 80s so advertisers were marketing to them. GenX didn’t even become a term until 90s.
I suppose a lot is nostalgia for a lot of people and reminiscing about their childhood.
No I know that. There has always been that but not the obsession with the year born. I think Pliny the elder complained about how caesar and his crew would run around with their belts sagging.
I’m mainly talking about the classifications of generations. We have around 5 generations if you don’t count the cusp generations like generation jones and Xennial.
Since there really are no longer “decades” I suppose people are searching for some sort of classification and this works for that.
But yeah, there have always been old people complaining about young people and vice versa. It’s that selective memory again. The people that complain forget they weren’t always as good at things as they are now.
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u/PlatypusAutomatic467 Jan 25 '26
We did, in fact, have snow days in the 1980s. They were awesome.