I think Gen X's biggest marker was that although they were kind of left listless in childhood, they were the last generation to really enjoy their youth from childhood to young adulthood because they had distinct communities, culture, art, music, and the last vestiges of that epoch of time when young men and women going to school socialized in normal ways.
The millennials only like the 90's because it was the last recorded time when things were "normal".
There's a meme that really fucks me up as a Millennial. It's a picture of a little girl playing with a flower in front of landscape that includes the twin towers. The text on the image read something like: "Our children will never know what they lost". It fucks me up because it seems like we were the last generation to even witness normalcy, and that was now 30 years ago. Gen X was the last demographic to kind of have a normal life. The late 90's were a period of stagnation that no one wanted to admit to. It was as if everyone ran out of ideas. 9/11 changed everything because it started a cascade effect of economic and cultural collapse. That brief moment of unity after 9/11, a decade later, became a moment where Leftists were ashamed that Americans killed OBL. Those same Leftists are calling for Trump's murder, or even my murder today. Chinese propagandists on TikTok are sharing OBL's letter to America and trying to convince Zoomers and Alpha that he was a good guy, despite the fact that we all knew his complaints and didn't care that that was his justification for mass murder.
There's a website that shows TV news from like 2004, and I remember one Zoomer telling me that it was crazy how normal it was. Nobody was crying hysterically about politics.
We live in the most mentally deranged civilization in all of human history, and our children are the most mentally ill generation in all of history, and even they can feel it. They have no concept of what normal even was. The Boomers rebelled against "normal", passed nothing down, and then were surprised to find out it had died from their actions and that no one had ever carried anything on. Millennials are going to have to come to terms with the fact that our normal has to be physically re-created by people who didn't even live it, in order to pass it on to our grandkids, and none of us know how.
I don’t think it’s possible to get “normal” back. I miss it terribly, experiencing my youthful years without tech, big family parties regularly, every weekend at my grandmas house all of my aunts and uncles would come over with my cousins for a meal, adults drinking and partying while the kids played, it was glorious. I didn’t have a computer in my house until 17 years old, and it wasn’t a huge part of my life after we got it. I was always out fishing or hiking back then, or going to concerts/festivals, skateboarding, sports, even watching movies was a wholesome experience because you went out on a Friday night to blockbuster video to rent something with your girlfriend, family or friends, it was fun searching through the movies hoping you’d get one of the new releases, but if one wasn’t there, you went through the old movies you hadn’t seen in a long time, they always had a good deal that was like rent 1 get another rental for free and it would be a fun night for you and whoever you were with. Computer tech robbed us of all of that stuff, we are all staring at our phones way too much, it takes away from how humans are supposed to interact and it’s never coming back unless the sun blasts us with an a massive EMP.
It's fucking scary when I see Alpha and Zoomers watch movies from the 80's, and they literally don't even have references to the kinds of parties that used to be normal.
I know the meme you’re talking about, and yeah, we didn’t realize it at the time but 9/11 was definitely a turning point, nothing has been the same since, everything progressively got worse with each passing year, little by little our old way of life was replaced by artificial everything, and a dying economy with no hope for a decent future,
I think Gen X's biggest marker was that although they were kind of left listless in childhood, they were the last generation to really enjoy their youth from childhood to young adulthood because they had distinct communities, culture, art, music, and the last vestiges of that epoch of time when young men and women going to school socialized in normal ways.
The millennials only like the 90's because it was the last recorded time when things were "normal".
There's a meme that really fucks me up as a Millennial. It's a picture of a little girl playing with a flower in front of landscape that includes the twin towers. The text on the image read something like: "Our children will never know what they lost". It fucks me up because it seems like we were the last generation to even witness normalcy, and that was now 30 years ago. Gen X was the last demographic to kind of have a normal life. The late 90's were a period of stagnation that no one wanted to admit to. It was as if everyone ran out of ideas. 9/11 changed everything because it started a cascade effect of economic and cultural collapse. That brief moment of unity after 9/11, a decade later, became a moment where Leftists were ashamed that Americans killed OBL. Those same Leftists are calling for Trump's murder, or even my murder today. Chinese propagandists on TikTok are sharing OBL's letter to America and trying to convince Zoomers and Alpha that he was a good guy, despite the fact that we all knew his complaints and didn't care that that was his justification for mass murder.
There's a website that shows TV news from like 2004, and I remember one Zoomer telling me that it was crazy how normal it was. Nobody was crying hysterically about politics.
We live in the most mentally deranged civilization in all of human history, and our children are the most mentally ill generation in all of history, and even they can feel it. They have no concept of what normal even was. The Boomers rebelled against "normal", passed nothing down, and then were surprised to find out it had died from their actions and that no one had ever carried anything on. Millennials are going to have to come to terms with the fact that our normal has to be physically re-created by people who didn't even live it, in order to pass it on to our grandkids, and none of us know how.
I don’t think it’s possible to get “normal” back. I miss it terribly, experiencing my youthful years without tech, big family parties regularly, every weekend at my grandmas house all of my aunts and uncles would come over with my cousins for a meal, adults drinking and partying while the kids played, it was glorious. I didn’t have a computer in my house until 17 years old, and it wasn’t a huge part of my life after we got it. I was always out fishing or hiking back then, or going to concerts/festivals, skateboarding, sports, even watching movies was a wholesome experience because you went out on a Friday night to blockbuster video to rent something with your girlfriend, family or friends, it was fun searching through the movies hoping you’d get one of the new releases, but if one wasn’t there, you went through the old movies you hadn’t seen in a long time, they always had a good deal that was like rent 1 get another rental for free and it would be a fun night for you and whoever you were with. Computer tech robbed us of all of that stuff, we are all staring at our phones way too much, it takes away from how humans are supposed to interact and it’s never coming back unless the sun blasts us with an a massive EMP.
Don't forget neighborhood block parties.
It's fucking scary when I see Alpha and Zoomers watch movies from the 80's, and they literally don't even have references to the kinds of parties that used to be normal.
I know the meme you’re talking about, and yeah, we didn’t realize it at the time but 9/11 was definitely a turning point, nothing has been the same since, everything progressively got worse with each passing year, little by little our old way of life was replaced by artificial everything, and a dying economy with no hope for a decent future,