If you are like me, born between 1965 – 1980, you belong to Generation X. There are some defining characteristics of my generational cohort, largely due to how and when we were raised. Those characteristics make us distinct from the narcissistic Baby Boomers (1946 – 1964) and their pathetic weakling offspring, Millennials (1981-1996). Let’s start from the beginning.
Gen-X was born to latter stage members of the Silent Generation (1928-1945) and early-stage Baby Boomers (early stage defines as 1946 – 1955). As such, they were born into a crumbling social, political, and economic order. The Silent Generation was a bit too small to have a major impact on society. Born during the Great Depression and raised during World War II, the Silent Generation was grounded in a largely deprived world. They arose as a conservative bloc. This can be seen in their offspring, many of whom were latter stage Boomers and early Gen Xers. Regardless, the Silent Generation had a greater impact on Gen X as grandparents, a topic I will address. As for the Baby Boom Generation, they had the greatest negative impact on Gen-X.
While there is a persistent myth that Boomers were a mass of hippies, reality is very different. The Boomer generation is complex, but it was really defined by a multifaceted culture war the likes of which Western Civilization was wholly ill prepared to manage. This was part of an attempt by the Soviet Union and domestic Marxists to exploit neoliberal society’s soft underbelly: individualism. The concept of individual decadence versus societal need was exploited to great effect – from the “sexual revolution” to the end of the draft in the United States. In Europe, the track took a similar path, but for different reasons.
To put this into perspective, whereas prior to 1960, pornography was illegal in most American states and countries around the world, by 1972, pornographic films were viewed in regular movie theaters and reviewed by mainstream film critics. Boomers are correct when they point out that it was not their generation that made legal changes from the Supreme Court or within the Halls of Congress (the “Greatest” Generation was in charge). However, many of those changes were conducted to placate a vocal minority from within the Boomer generation. While Boomers fought in Vietnam ostensibly to combat the spread of communism, other Boomers protested the war in such a way that they deprived their fellow generational cohorts the support they needed to win. Wild changes in societal boundaries coupled with a divorce from God brought disintegration and destruction to the West. That was achieved by young, organized Boomers.
American Boomers were raised during a period of unparalleled privilege. They were the first television generation. They enjoyed the newly acquired status of an American superpower. Literally, everything seemed perfect for a confident American society. This generation was spoiled, in large part, by parents who ascended from the Great Depression and World War II. Nearly 24% of qualified American men served the U.S. military during World War II (about 10% of the total population). Consequently, their fathers were veterans who had a profound sense of patriotism, while many of their mothers waited with uncertainty as it pertained to their husbands overseas. As such, a shared sacrifice was grounded in the American “Greatest” and Silent Generations, while Boomers were raised in a largely sheltered world. I suspect, themselves having been deprived, the ‘Greatest”/Silent Generations wanted to give their children everything they did not have growing up.
For Europeans, the experiences were different, but they had a similar outcome. Raised in the ashes of post-war Europe, citizens of former great empires were now grasping the reality that they no longer enjoyed elevated status. Marxist indoctrination was weaponized early in Western Europe to point the blame of the war on “Nationalism.” If Europeans would simply surrender their nationalist differences to embrace a peaceful coexistence, deprivations like those experienced in Europe during the post-war rebuilding years would no longer be an issue. Consequently, while American Boomers were pledging allegiance to the flag in classrooms throughout the United States, Western Europeans were being fed a heavy dose of Jean Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, and Max Horkheimer. Along with a desire to eradicate nationalism, the weaponization of Holocaust mythology was coupled with an anti-religious sentiment in Europe. In effect, distinctions along religious and national lines were being dismantled in the name of “peace.” This explains why, in the most recent French election, globalist candidate Emannuel Macron overwhelmingly won French Baby Boomers, while losing Gen-Xers and barely winning older Millennials.
The two parallel paths – American and European – meet at about the same time that the Boomer generation enters college. The exchange of ideas between European and American academics leads to a hard left turn in higher education. Whereas a steady leftist trajectory has existed in the United States since the inclusion of radical 19th Century European socialist refugees, where they found a home in elite militant egalitarian Yankee political circles, the hard turn seems to occur in the early 1960s. Marxist influencers on both continents weaponized individualism to promote concepts that directly destroyed Western Civilization. For European Boomers, the messaging was simple: if you want to avoid war and enjoy life, discard national and religious labels. For American Boomers, the messaging was slightly different in a country that had only recently introduced large scale social welfare benefits: if you want a better world for everyone, then freedom from hunger, freedom from war, and freedom from privation must transcend freedoms of religion and the right to own guns. For both groups, however, cultural Marxism gained traction in film, music, academia, and nearly everywhere else: discard antiquated notions of morality and serve your personal desires. The latter notion is where things got unhinged.
Coming out of their wild younger years, Boomers suddenly had their first round of children – Generation X. Recognizing that they had to pay the bills, the Boomers began discarding their bell bottoms for business suits. But now Boomers – many of whom were raised to venerate themselves – faced a cultural disintegration that previous generations never faced. Women in the workforce chose between motherhood and professional achievement. Divorce, abortion, and abandonment became hallmarks of the early years within which Gen-X was raised by a selfish Boomer generation. Even more conservative societies, like those found in the South, were not immune to the seismic shift in cultural norms.
Suddenly, “latch-key kids” became a thing – whereby children were expected to go to school on their own, come home, make their own meals, and do their homework without parental supervision. Generation X was largely raising itself. Naturally, like any child devoid of parental guidance, the generation turned toward popular imagery and their friends for guidance. In the early years of Generation X, which meant GI Joe, Top Gun, Red Dawn, and Rambo.
The 80s was a masculine decade, and Gen-X was raised on a steady diet of individual responsibility (while their divorced mothers worked) and Hollywood tough guys. No one in 1987 wanted to be Alan Alda; they wanted to be Arnold Schwarzenegger. Even teenage romantic communities in the 80s emphasized male-female relationships. Girls went out of their way to look pretty. Boys went out of their way to earn girls. Music was heavily laden with songs about heterosexual sex, smoking, drinking, and being cool – unless you were one of the weirdos listening to alternative music, whereby your classmates thought you probably had a new “gay cancer” called A.I.D.S.
For those fortunate to have grandparents that were either close, or in some cases surrogate parents (as was the case for me until I was thirteen-years-old), the older generation looked at the Boomer generation with a general view of disgust and disappointment. Of course, not all Boomers were bad, but a large number were so bad that they tainted the perspective on their generation for the entire group. Consequently, grandparents comprised of the “Greatest” and Silent Generations sought to undo that which they had done with the previous generation. Reinforcing traditional cultural norms and values became important to these older guardians who were experiencing their second chance at parenthood while their selfish children raced out to “find themselves.”
Returning to the idea of individualism, it is interesting to note the differences between Boomers and Gen-X. Individualism for Boomers seemed to be about themselves. It was about their personal choices, regardless of the downstream effects – what can this do for me. By contrast, Gen-Xer individualism seems to be defined by a desire for independence – leave me alone. This makes sense when you consider how independent many Gen-Xers were forced to become at such an early age. Gen-Xers still supported their broader community. For example, as the first generation of the all-volunteer military era, Gen-Xers enjoy the highest rates of peacetime service volunteering and only the Greatest Generation volunteered at higher rates during a time of conflict. Thus, choosing to collectivize for a good cause (e.g., national defense, emergency relief, etc.) is not foreign to Gen-Xers – just do not force them to collectivize.
Emerging from the 1980s as teenagers, the first thing an angry Gen-X did was kick Saddam Hussein’s ass in 100 hours. While the Gulf War was hardly a feat of great military conquest, Gen-X, many of whom were being called “slackers,” wanted to erase the doom-and-gloom dire predictions of Boomer television analysts who genuinely believed the war would be Vietnam II: Muslim Edition. Although Bush Sr. was in the White House, the American military that crushed the fourth largest armored land army in the world at the time (and one with eight years of combat experience) was Reagan’s military – a beloved figure for a generation that looked at every other president prior to him as slovenly and weak. Then Gen-X entered the work force, just in time for a recession.
Gen-X hit the workforce beginning in the late 1980s, just as Wall Street collapsed and a bond scandal struck the broader lending markets. Boomers, now entrenched in higher positions, had no interest in giving up their comfortable positions. As such, Gen-X had to figure it out on their own – again. It was about this time that subject matter expertise was driven home. This was a natural fit for Gen-X that liked to work on projects individually, versus sitting in a circle discussing what to eat at the next business meeting. When the internet came full steam, the tech economy emerged, and with it, so did opportunities for subject matter experts.
Gen-X monetized its knowledge of a new technology. Naturally, Boomers raced to make money in the promise of a technology they knew little about, causing the “dot-com” stock market crash of 2000. Worse, however, many of the early investments made by Boomers were pulled mid-project from Gen-Xers who were on the brink of doing some extraordinary – and some laughable work. Unfortunately, the money was pulled like a rug out from underneath many companies with little regard as to who or what seemed like a solid venture. This led Gen-X back to the drawing board, restructuring their professional lives after losing everything. The problem, of course, was that the Boomers in charge – both politically and commercially – outsourced most of the production jobs over the previous decade. The service and retail economies became the default position for those Gen-Xers who either did not have a craft skillset, a specialization, or a professional degree. The latter, of course, was not a guarantee of employment.
While Gen-X was struggling to emerge in its own right within the workforce, Boomers were having their second chance at parenthood. Now comfortable in their professional positions, the idea of “work-life balance” brought Boomer parents home to the next crop of children they began producing in the 1980s and early 1990s. Millennials emerged as a pampered class of brats. The same mothers that abandoned their older children to make it on their own now dominated soccer practices and swim meets. Unlike Gen-X, Millennials were raised to embrace many of the values their Boomer parents enjoyed in their youth but set aside temporarily in order to achieve corporate success.
When 9/11 occurred, it was primarily Gen-X that responded, first. Most Millennials were too young on September 11th, 2001, and although they would later fill the ranks of a twenty-year war, Gen-X took the brunt of early wartime mistakes. Boomer politicians seemed to have no problem sending the first wave of Gen-Xers to their deaths in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, while they botched the peace. Returning home after those early war days, Gen-Xers who were finally able to buy a home, found themselves in a Boomer-led economic collapse tied to predatory lending that was initiated by a revised Community Reinvestment Act – signed into law by the first Baby Boomer President, Bill Clinton.
Yet again, Gen-X, who were primarily in their mid-to-late 30s during the Great Recession, were middle managers, working for Boomer executives who, when faced with a recession, fired their Gen-X replacements, while retaining younger Millennials who were not as expensive to employ. It was shortly thereafter that the statistically more conservative voting bloc, Gen-X, inherited President Barack Obama. Obama, for his part, seems to have been propelled by Boomers excited to prove that the country “transcended racism” and Millennials who were raised to be leftist and weak. Although the country was already in the beginning stages of its ruins, Obama seemed to put that collapse into hyperdrive. Despite the political speedbump that Trump became for four years, the United States is back on track for the full disintegration of everything Gen-X was raised to love and value.
Cumulatively, Gen-X, entered the world to aloof Boomer parents, entered the job market when the stock and bond markets collapsed, fought three wars, watched their savings wiped out in one stock market scam (Dot-Com Bubble) and another real estate lending scam, watched Boomers outsource their jobs to China, had their homes foreclosed upon them, and now find themselves wedged between the same aloof Boomers and soft Millennials voting for the destruction of Western Civilization. Generation-X has been cleaning up behind Boomers for decades, while Millennials walk behind Gen-X proverbially throwing mud back on the floor. Gen X is rightfully angry. We were raised on Guns-and-Roses, Hank Williams Jr., smashmouth professional football, military movies, and cartoons whereby the main characters routinely blew up. What we see are old hippies and young trannies.
Thankfully, however, our children, Gen-Z, is emerging as the most conservative demographic cohort in generations. They are still young. Their brand of conservatism seems to have a nationalist vibe. If we can survive the destructive impulses of Boomers, we might be OK.
The son of a recent Irish immigrant and another with roots to Virginia since 1670. I love both my Irish and Southern Nations with a passion. Florida will always be my country. Dissident support here: Padraig Martin is Dixie on the Rocks (buymeacoffee.com)
Baby boomers have no idea how much they are hated. There is a boomer site called Ace of Spades where they revel in “first world problems and kneel to their (((masters))) with alacrity.
Boomers think they are still the “cool kids” though history is going to them as the debased degenerants they are. And Boomer women are the worst. They, who have lived and enjoyed all the luxuries of the peak of human civilization. That isnt enough. Boomers always have to have more. It is said that GenX is 25%~33% smaller so Boomer women could continue to whore around. That makes them, collectively, some of this biggest mass murders in history.
Long Live Dixie!
I used to be a Boomer-hater, but since the BLM riots and Flu World Order came about, many of them have gotten up to speed on what’s what.
You can’t really blame them for having the views they do, or for not raising us Millenniels correctly. They literally had no idea what was happening in the broader culture that our generation came of age in.
I basically stopped keeping up with new advances in technology, music, culture, etc at around the time I graduated college in the early 2010s. What I’ve found is that there seems to be almost as much of a generational gap between Millenniels and Zoomers as between Boomers and Millenniels, despite there being less time between them.
We’re at the part where everything starts going really fast, so buckle up kids its gonna be a wild ride
Despite everything else, including being spoiled rotten by their parents and self-inflicted abuses to their own bodies (drugs, alcohol, & free sex), a good chunk of the Boomer generation were very good at their jobs, especially those who went into the trades. They were figuratively, and actually, very ‘hands on’. I think some of that, through technology, got lost on Gen X, and subsequent generations. I don’t think many 20-somethings today, except in small patches in rural areas, know how to build or repair anything structural or mechanical. Sadly, due to being selfish and greedy, many Boomers did not pass on these skills or opportunities to a younger generation. For example, in construction, they went for more profit and chose to import cheap Mexican labor (in the USA) instead of training (and paying fairly) their own people. This can be seen in many industries across the Nation (that were not already farmed out to China or Mexico). Agreements like NAFTA were peak Boomer greed, at the same time that they hurt many of their own generation (believing, in their hubris, that the job bleeding would stop with ‘dirty factory jobs that only poor, uneducated Whites were doing’).
The photo should have a caption- “drigs are the new reality”.
Drugs! Damn chinese spell check!
Great article, only thing missing was the slashing of Gen X by abortion.
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We both wept, a book could be filled. But you have certainly summed up the abandoned generation.
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They even had the nerve to label us with an X. 🤨🙄😒
While so many have passed or weren’t allowed to be born, we who remain are going to set the record straight!!!
✨✨✨ HALLELUYAH✨✨✨
WE ARE ALIVE & VERY AWARE!
WE WILL WE WILL STONE YOU!
Meh. Stupid article. Don’t underestimate the value of experience and wisdom. Putting a certain class of people all in the same basket could prove to be a fatal error.
Pretty ironic given the racialist nature of this site 😉
NAXALT = true, but the exception proves the rule
The author clearly threw in the mandatory not all. As for experience and wisdom, got plenty of that from dealing with the flaming pile of excrement left behind in every government reg by whim and corporate cost cutting and virtue signalling collectivist BS we have to live with. “fatal error”? Plenty of that about to be served up thanks to the meddlers and karens, HOAs are the perfect example of ( not all but many) boomer minds.
Ok Boomer.
ESAD.
Agreed, sir. Contrary to what Padraig Martin wrote, the Vietnam war was not fought by boomers opposing Communism. They were drafted because the war profiteers wanted another war. I guess Martin supports Joe Biden giving $33 billion in tax funded weaponry to Zelensky to piss away. Screw the Yankee empire in the 1960s; screw the Yankee empire today. Your worst essay ever, P Martin.
Shut up boomer.
Ok Boomer
Holocaust mythology?
Unfortunately, the holocaust DID happen. And very well documented by the perpetrators as well as hundreds of thousands of unkilled victims.
There were also holocausts in Russia, Africa and China at about the same time.
That’s what you took away from this? Kindly fuck off.
Ok D…this is a story by genX, for genX. No boomers allowed!
We are talking about you not to you.
And we will fix what yours have fucked up. Now begone!
Actually, there’s a lot to question about the Holocaust narrative. For a long time, its proponents claimed that the camps in Germany were death-by-gassing facilities. Later they had to concede that wasn’t true. They still maintained that 6 million died, but that all the gassing was done in Polish camps, such as Auschwitz, where 4 million were allegedly killed. Around 1990, however, the official tally for Auschwitz became only one million, yet the total remained 6 million. So, you subtract three million from six million, and you still get six million. That’s pretty funny math.
Undoubtedly, the Germans did murder some Jews. But it’s highly suspicious that in Europe and Canada you can end up in jail if you suggest anything less than six million.
You’re the reason Eisenhower said take pictures, or some idiot is going to claim this didn’t happen.
You believe all the pictures (and their narratives) you see, do ya?
Yep! Especially the pictures of burned-to-cinders Dresden folks, relabeled as Jewish holo- martyrs.😎
They took pictures of people who died from starvation and typhus, caused by the (highly ‘moral’) allies carpet bombing the entire infrastructure of Germany and Poland (as well as most large cities with very little, if any, military significance). Then, they spun it as a German war crime (with a kangaroo court show trial) to a highly trusting and naive populace.
Pictures of dead Germans killed in Allied saturation bombings of German cities. Pictures which Eisenhower then used to invert that truth to say it was Jews killed by Germans. Even Sefton Delmer (who aligned himself with the perverters of the truth) admitted as much.
I don’t know who “they” are, but people still certainly believe millions were gassed to death.
If this was in reply to me and my use of the term “their” in parenthesis, I should clarify that I didn’t mean “they,” I meant the narratives belonging to the pictures in question. Also, I wrote that reply to “Jaybo” with tongue firmly planted in cheek; of course he doesn’t believe every picture and its narrative he sees, he just believes the ones he wants to believe. What, for example, are the old Yankee photos of “Whipped Peter,” and of the emaciated bodies of Union soldiers who survived the horrors of Andersonville telling us? Not necessarily what we think they’re telling us at first glance. I have an article upcoming about this. Stay tuned.
My apologies to Mr. Martin. This is a very good article; I don’t want to take away from its lustre by descending into the depths or going off on tangents in the combox.
Holy shit what you Xers are is the victim generation. Whine on
Gotta gut feeling the boomer whine will be deafening when they’re thrown into nursing homes that are staffed with their cheap third world and affirmative action nursing hires that were so great for corporate profit margins and their retirement funds that their generation “built”.
Can’t wait till your savings are eaten up by inflation, and you are forced to compete for a job with all the coloreds you morons let in.
Word! The howling is already starting. Several of the old farts are crying about employment on their blogs already. They can’t survive the inflation and they can’t find jobs at their last salary which was more than 10 years ago probably. Boo fucking hoo!
Btw… that was a fine Sunday morning read!
Out of touch Boomer says we whine. “Let them eat cake!” eh Boomer?
I thought growing up it was just my parents and their circles of friends who were indulgent wasters. After having raised two children into adulthood and looking back in retrospect it was a general trend. They are not long for this world though.
What will the world look like without the boomers?
What does a field of crops look like after the locusts have devoured every last spec and have moved on?
This inter-generational hatred that exists in the USA is really an Anglosphere only thing. The OP article was a fun read, but many of the people in the comments section seem to be really hate filled. Ramzpaul did a video on this phenomenon and why its culturally unhealthy a month or two back, wish I had the link.
This sort of hatred is socially unhelpful and individually unhealthy. Andrew Anglin from The Daily Stormer, a great Christian blog, constantly talks E.G. about why, although its true that if you’re a Millenniel or Zoomer, you were probably psychologically abused by your mother, but that you need to forgive her for it anyway. This same thing applies also to inter-generational conflicts.
Just let it go fam. They can’t help being how they are. Go and read the chapter of Evola’s “Ride The Tiger” about getting “beyond good and evil” and apply it to this. Don’t view the stuff that’s happened to you as “bad”, just accept that it was a necessary chain of events in an infinite solution of cause-and-effect stemming back, ultimately, from the First Cause that set our cosmos in motion. To quote Morpheus from “The Matrix”: “what happened had to happen and couldn’t have happened any other way”
My parents are both “lost generation”. They had two children. My sister is a straight-up boomer. A self-absorbed, thrice-married, suburban wine-Karen who shat out three children. All “adults” who are incapable of supporting themselves.
I showed up 11 years later than my sister. Gen X through, and through. Married another Gen-X’er. We have one child who will start a life guard job this summer (at 15).
The difference between my sister and myself are completely mind-blowing. Hard to believe we were raised by the same parents, yet we were.
Sure not complaining. It’s not like I had it rough growing up. Matter of fact, being a latch-key kid taught me a helluva a lot. Being self-reliant is a good thing.
But if you take away our physical similarities, my sister have almost nothing in common. Raised by the same parents, but in different times. Pretty bizarre when I reflect on it.
“radical 19th Century European socialist refugees”
Who could that possibly be?
A tight-knit ethno-religious tribe who were forced to flee the Old World for the New due to religious persecution. Of course I’m talking about the Anabaptists I.E. the Amish!
“radical 19th Century European socialist refugees”
Some of the earliest were the so-called “Forty-eighters,” who fled Europe after the failed continent-wide “Republican” revolutions of that year. Many were said to have been “Germans.” Because they came from German areas, mind you! One very typical early Boomer claims that he never learned about those uprisings in public school or university, so it must be a conspiracy theory.
Check to see how many of those 48-ers helped found the “Republican” party, or made homes in the Lincoln administration.
Go away little boy.
The irony is incredible. The generation that had the arrogance to tell their parents, the ones who battled through the Depression and WWII to give them a better life, “We’re the young generation, step aside, listen to us and we will fix the world!” Okay – you had your chance. How’d you do? Let’s see, women are liberated – and miserable, in spite of their depression meds. Divorce is easy. Abortion is free. Corporations have seized control of our world. We have endless international ‘interventions’. Pollution is worse than ever. What about the latest ‘young generation’? Children physically damaged by being masked up and vaxxed up, emotionally damaged from single-parent households, media programming, ‘CRT’, etc.. And how did that whole ‘war on poverty’ thing go? Ready to declare victory yet, boomer? Or are you ready to admit that the previous generations weren’t as stupid as you stoned, know-it-all, self-centered, narcissistic teenagers, thought they were?
My heavens this article blew up. Wow.
Regardless as to whether or not the individuals agree with me personally, I enjoy this immensely. We run one of the few sites by which individuals can agree or disagree without fear of arbitrary censorship. The point of ID is not to simply reinforce narratives, but to expand the Overton Window by means of triggering thought – especially thought that makes secession more likely. It is great to see – of which you and your writing plays a big role.
God Bless!
Padraig Martin
And we love it!
The first Gulf war went quickly for two reasons, neither of which had much to do with Gen X:
1) Bush the first was not going to wear the dunce cap for another Vietnam, defined his exit strategy and got agreement for it before he began and left according to his exit plan. Arguably too early and allowing the slaughter of the Shia uprising in the south re-empowered Saddam.
2) John Boyd’s war doctrine was finally exercised in live conflict. Boyd did not just revolutionize aircraft but also tactical doctrine. Gulf war #1 would have been faster but for idiots in the general brigade that did not grasp and embrace the change in doctrine.
Did you ever read 13th Gen? because this take sounds like an update of it.
I am near 61 (which supposedly makes me a ‘Boomer’). I have a 17 year old still at home.
Comparing how I had to work my entire life to the way the latest generation is (spoiled, lazy, miscegenistic, and fat), there is no doubt that my child is going to have a rough time dealing with that inadequate generation who has swallowed the entire woke narrative.
Great article. No lies detected!
And, especially on this day… Mother’s Day, I thank God for my traditional stay-at-home mother.
Excellent article. The first picture was my high school. We had some fun despite the tough times. I wonder how many of the “leave me alone” generation took the fake vaxx.
Wow! Serious hate but I cannot blame the others for it. The biggest issue I have with the “Boomer” generation is that they still are not letting Gen X move into positions to put in permanent fixes. They are running down the clock for their spawn that is just version 2.0. Just admit you were wrong and move on. Let others fix the mess instead of the band-aids before you or 2.0 screw it up some more. No hate from me I’m glad I was left alone growing up. Figured out how to build buildings, repair vehicles, design systems that actually work. Hardware, software, and everything in between I can outclass, out think, and out do just about any Boomer. And that is the best revenge against our older brothers and sisters. Especially when they refuse to admit their mistakes. I own every mistake I made with pride. The mistakes are how I learned to do and be better. It wasn’t from any of them. Even just out of spite I tested out of your broken education system. Bachelor’s in Engineering. 15 years later tested out of a Bachelor’s in Business and MBA. Been doing the work the whole time. Half of what the idiots taught would put a business under in no time. But made my name fixing their mess ups so I cannot complain.
But the sad old people won’t understand. They’ll just get pissy and call us names while we try to retrain version 2.0 to be semi human long enough for Gen Z to grow up. Hopefully that will help. Us in Gen X are not getting any younger.
Spot on article!