shipperx | Girls -- the sequel (Reply)

Okay, actually it has nothing to do with "Girls."

Except perhaps as an existential response. The cry in the wilderness of the voice of a different generation. :)

Article: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It

Excerpt:

Generation X is sick of your bullshit.
[Millenials] the first generation to do worse than its parents? Please. Been there. Generation X was told that so many times that it can’t even read those words without hearing Winona Ryder’s voice in its heads. Or maybe it’s Ethan Hawke’s. Possibly Bridget Fonda’s. Generation X is getting older, and can’t remember those movies so well anymore. In retrospect, maybe they weren’t very good to begin with.
But Generation X is tired of your sense of entitlement. Generation X also graduated during a recession. It had even shittier jobs, and actually had to pay for its own music.

Generation X is used to being fucked over. It lost its meager savings in the dot-com bust. Then came George W. Bush, and 9/11, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Generation X bore the brunt of all that. And then came the housing crisis.
Generation X wasn’t surprised. Generation X kind of expected it.
Generation X is a journeyman. It didn’t invent hip hop, or punk rock, or even electronica (it’s pretty sure those dudes in Kraftwerk are boomers) but it perfected all of them, and made them its own. It didn’t invent the Web, but it largely built the damn thing.

Generation X gave you Google and Twitter and blogging; Run DMC and Radiohead and Nirvana and Notorious B.I.G. Not that it gets any credit.
But that’s okay. Generation X is used to being ignored, stuffed between two much larger, much more vocal, demographics. But whatever. Generation X is self-sufficient. It was a latchkey child. Its parents were too busy fulfilling their own personal ambitions to notice any of its trophies—which were admittedly few and far between because they were only awarded for victories, not participation. {...}

Generation X is tired. {...}Generation X wishes it had better health insurance and a deeper savings account. {...}

Right now, Generation X just wants a beer and to be left alone. It just wants to sit here quietly and think for a minute. Can we just do that, okay? It knows that you are so very special and so very numerous, but can you just leave it alone? Just for a little bit? Just long enough to sneak one fucking cigarette? No?
Whatever. It’s cool.
Generation X is used to disappointments..."