Well, technically speaking I'm the first year of Gen-X and I've always identified with Gen-X rather than with my Boomer parents which are SOO boomerific. Yeah, I'm the oldest Gen-X in the crew but that's where my head is at.
And anyway, yeah, maybe the libs that I knew just talked a good game. But they seemed real about their concerns when I was young. Maybe I just wanted to believe.
But I'll tell ya, they ain't fooling anyone but themselves. And haven't been for quite some time. Even my "10-20 years" thing in my original post was being generous.
Bottom line, "what is" matters. "What was"... well... is sometimes romanticized or given more credit than it deserves!
You're gonna "break it to me" and you're talking about "growing up in the 80's"?! I was born in '65.
Well, technically speaking I'm the first year of Gen-X and I've always identified with Gen-X rather than with my Boomer parents which are SOO boomerific. Yeah, I'm the oldest Gen-X in the crew but that's where my head is at.
And anyway, yeah, maybe the libs that I knew just talked a good game. But they seemed real about their concerns when I was young. Maybe I just wanted to believe.
But I'll tell ya, they ain't fooling anyone but themselves. And haven't been for quite some time. Even my "10-20 years" thing in my original post was being generous.
Bottom line, "what is" matters. "What was"... well... is sometimes romanticized or given more credit than it deserves!