Why is Generation X overlooked?

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Were " slacker " and " Generation X " really in all that wide use in that sense in '80-'88 or so, when you would have gone to HS and college assuming you followed a " normal " schedule ? Myself. I. have my lifetime of tears over never having.been allowed to truly go to college/uni -And no one will try to help (I don't mean financially) me to go now !







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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

There was a 1991 Richard Linklater film named "Slackers". It was well reviewed and people started saying the film captured the zeitgeist of the then young generation which led to to the whole generation bieng called slackers.

...Yes, ezactly. I was saying that Kraich' s college, and eapecially HS, proably came bwfore the " X" and " S " terms were genwrally..
I was just being Mr. Literal Aspie ! !! !! !! !! !!
A Canadian novelist named Douglas Coupland coined " Generation X " in the sense we use here in the title of a novel he wrote about that time also. I've not read his.novel nor seen Linklater film, but I know both.





PartOfMe"]There was a 1991 Richard Linklater film named "Slackers". It was well reviewed and people started saying the film captured the zeitgeist of the then young generation which led to to the whole generation bieng called slackers.[/quote]

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...Of course, you remember " Lost Generation " being supposedly coined by Gertrude Stein, referring to Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest, etc. in rhe post-Great War years?






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...Yes, ezactly. I was saying that Kraich' s college, and eapecially HS, proably came bwfore the " X" and " S " terms were genwrally..
I was just being Mr. Literal Aspie ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
A Canadian novelist named Douglas Coupland coined " Generation X " in the sense we use here in the title of a novel he wrote about that time also. I've not read his.novel nor seen Linklater film, but I know both.





PartOfMe"]There was a 1991 Richard Linklater film named "Slackers". It was well reviewed and people started saying the film captured the zeitgeist of the then young generation which led to to the whole generation bieng called slackers.

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

In 1991 the book Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Copeland was published. Like the movie "Slackers", it received all sorts of media hype leading to the term Generation X becoming popular.

In 1965 a book entitled Generation X was published describing the British mod youth subculture. In the late 1970's a British punk band fronted by Billy Idol named themselves after the book.

"Your Generation" by Generation X introduced by Marc Bolan of T-Rex

As for the OP, timing. If you asked that question 15 years ago people would laugh, everything was about 'Gen X' and 'the greatest generation'. Media is always fascinated with the youngest adult generation, it gives those older something to complain about and the younger generation something to claim they're unfairly accused of: namely, it's controversy and controversy sells media. The oldest generation with a healthy population is also talked about because for the most part they hold institutional power, they've been around longest, they've accrued more wealth than the other generations, and thus they're important because of the power/purse they wield. Give it another 10 and we'll be talking about Gen X again, and the new 'go f**k yourself with a sharpened razor dildo' generation that's coming up now (also my vote for their official name btw).

Ha Astrophanes is right. We're just not young enough to be noticed anymore, but not old enough either.