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The Legacy of Generation X

Millenial slackers, I have good news! You aren’t the first generation to be called “slackers” and you won’t be the last.

Yep, us middle aged ferts out here were also called slackers. Same old headlines graced these things called “newspapers” back in our day. Generation X, generation nothing. They have no direction. They’re lazy. The usual…well utter and total bullshite. Yea Generation X. Didn’t do much. Gulf War I. That was us that got sucked into that. All those “extreme” sports you see now, skateboarding, BMX, MTB, snowboarding, wakeboarding. Once again, hi, that was us that started pushing the limits in those areas.

We were called slackers and do nothings, not because we did “nothing” but because what we were doing was not what had been done before. So to the status quo, it had no meaning. The reality though, is that it was changing the world. As a kid, snowboarding was relegated to backwoods and BMX racing and riding was ridiculed as “something kids do”. Now it has pushed out other sports for a spotlight in the Olympic Games and is showcased all over the world in international televised sporting events.

Media? Yea we re-invented that too. The way magazines are layed out now? Blame that on us. It started years ago in a magazine from Wizard Publications edited by some little known director called Spike Jones.

Music? Some may have heard of Kurt Cobain. Check his age range. Generation X. Changed music forever.

Ya see, there’s always some buffoon who thinks that the next generation coming up isn’t worthy of “taking over the reigns”, well I’m here to tell you.

Screw. Them.

The status quo needs to be stomped on and pushed over. Old men in power are afraid of change, trust me, and you Millenials, damn you scare the hell out of most people over 55. You aren’t buying cars, you don’t watch network TV, you don’t buy music by the album. You are scary.

So were we.

But I have good news. Ya see, just around the corner in about 4 to 5 years, us Gen Xers…well we are going to be in charge. Fully in charge and man…well you’ve already all been getting indoctrinated. What’s really funny is the old guard doesn’t even realize that we have been using their own old tech against them to get you all fired up to make big moves.

How one may ask? Well there is a old professor who has since passed on who studied ancient myth, his name was Joseph Campbell and he wrote extensively on something called the hero’s journey. Essentially it is the culmination of the human condition. Going from infant and only caring about one’s self to the realization that a person is part of the whole. Which is actually at the crux of many of the world’s religions and mythological tales. Joseph actually inter-related many of humanities disparate religions to show how they all say the same thing.

Nowhere is the hero’s journey more openly displayed than in tales of the fantastic. In epic science fantasies and fairy tales where the hero, though flawed, always saves the day and comes to the realization that there is more to life than themselves.

Star Wars, Marvel Comics, X-Men, Spider-Man, Harry Potter, Lord Of The Rings, The Matrix and so many others tell this tale.

Pretty interesting eh? For the past 15 to twenty years as Generation X gets to “call the shots” in what will sell…we gravitate towards telling that tale, the hero’s journey. Essentially, we are subconsciously setting the next generation up to automatically think in terms of that journey. To make them know that there are those out there, who are in charge who do not have their best interest in mind.

“Why didn’t Generation X get this done?”

We started to knock on the door, it was hard enough to get them to change their idea of sports, harder still to get them to change the idea of how to run the world. We also were far too few in number. The Millenials? You are a bigger generation than the Baby Boomers. Those mythical creatures who came after WWII and helped create this catastrophe we have today.

So everyone, while you’ve been busy with soccer momming, honeyboobooing, reality tving, footballing and all that other “normal” stuff, we’ve been busy indoctrinating the kids on how to live “the hero’s journey”. The Millenials will take charge with the idea “how do I make things better and help everyone else” fully implanted in their subconscious. I would suggest you stay out of their way because we’ve been watching.

Yea…you’re welcome.