George Bush, Generation X, and the Peanut butter and jelly slice.


Generation X will go down in history not as lost violent souls, but perhaps as the perfect embodiment of the vast vacant and entirely marketable shell that has come to symbolize the American way of life in this new and dangerous century.
Forced to start our families in the blackest hours of world history we turn our scared and lonely eyes to a leader who tells us it is our patriotic duty to go shopping; and he receives nothing but approval from a generation which has been ritualistically sodomized by gap ads and MTV. Every generation gets the leaders they deserve.

“When you get old your soul dies”

Every true Gen x knows that line, has it buried deep in their brain where it can only bubble up on certain dark nights in august when the wife’s gone to bed early and they’ve had one to many Heinekens. Scared to look in the bathroom mirror or flip on the outside light and see the mini-van sitting there.
From where I sit now I can see my white windstar lurking in the driveway as much soul as a washing machine. But hell the convenience and the six disk changer.
Better to just roll with it than try to explain time and again why your pulling three kids out of the back of a mid night black Z28 with a fire breathing 327 under the hood, right?
The boomers taught us well didn’t they.
We have grown more vacant and self-absorbed than they ever dared to dream of. The peanut butter and jelly slice now waits on grocers shelves for the hands of Gen x yuppies. Soccer moms and dads who not long ago feigned social and intellectual superiority over their elders and have now been so cowed into submission that they deny to their own children that they ever smoked marijuana.

Or listened to Nirvana
In a desperate effort to define ourselves we are gobbling up repacks of the same crappy 80’s music we spent the 90’s trying to distance ourselves from. A terrible fear emerges that the only real difference between generations is the pop stars. Ha, it’s some joke but it’s to late; we’ve all got mortgages, long involved credit reports, and at our age nobody wants to eat too many cashews.
Embarrassing houses with no trees or lawns and costing above 250 are being snatched up by disinterested Gen x parents who fully intend to abandon the neighborhood and any sense of stability their children might find every time it looks like a good idea for their career.
The generation of engineers and professionals coming into our own only because our parents are shoveling more and more of the crap jobs off shore. That and we pretend we didn’t go to high school with our peers in the service sector.

The future of generation x?
More and more Target, and spinning the dial round to soft rock, no going outside after dark, and pray to God we all don’t just get vaporized in some jet fuel fireball.
More and more work for the system that once called us slackers.
Generation X has been bought and paid for and we should all get back to work; the payments are due on that big ass sport-ute we all bought so as to pretend we don’t own a mini-van.


Copyright 2003

Well...

It's very cynical but I like it. There's some truth in there.

I don't even understand this thread.

althom said:

me neither

oh shut up already

You don't understand it because it sucks.

Damn the capitalists!
Damn the achievers!
Damn people who work hard for a living!
Damn people who buy more shit than me!
Damn people who make more money than me!

It's the mantra of the underachiever. I play a violin in your honor good sir. I bet whoever wrote this works at a record store making $6.00 an hour at the age of 34.

chemmie said:

Whatever you say lil' guy
[This message was edited Tue Nov 25 6:57:55 PST 2003 by paintsprayer]

paintsprayer said:

your feeding him sprayer

Ardeo said:

I expected better.

Well, I don't own an SUV, didn't vote for Bush, and I STILL listen to Nirvana. I could give a crap if the rest of my generation "sold out".

By the same token, were none of us suppossed to get jobs and raise families? Were we suppossed to stay adolescents for life? I'm not really sure what constitutes "selling out" by your standards. Are "growing up" and "selling out" the same thing? Don't get me wrong, I agree with many of your statements, although I think that these points could be made about all of American culture, not just Gen X.

JediMaster said:

Actually I am talking about people who never grew up

Yes this could be said about all of american culture but genx had rejected certain parts of it which they now embrace, just like the hippies before them, typical but still sad

the uniqness that makes one a Prince fan might make this a difficult sight to find this problem

paintsprayer said:

How is it not growing up? or have you never grown up and still wonder what the hell is wrong with everyone else?