The second part of a socialization/oral history post. Jumping right in. Here’s the link to part one.....
....Gen X blessings aside, I don’t exempt my generation from criticism. This is because a) my world view is built with observation and logic and b) I’m not CLI. Being completely blunt, the hard reality is that not all members of Gen X are earth-born angels. We forked. Some - like me - understand our historic position and try to pick up our heritage and pass it on. Others became boomer lite and are part of the problem. I obviously write from my perspective in the first group. Group two is repulsive.1.....
....So the question isn’t if the boomers looked outside the narrative and planned for the future. Even to the same extent we did. They objectively didn’t. Nor if it was possible for them to realize things were changing on a structural level. They objectively did....
....No generation in human history got more for less. No generation in human history paid a smaller percentage forward. And no generation in human history vaporized more socio-economic capital. It’s remarkable to consider what the family boomers could have accumulated with my perception. Even if they’d started when I first made my perception known to them. Roads not taken.
Fortunately, we can fell that decision tree and its poison fruit. That Gen X hinge. It’s just harder than it should be for less reward.
Anyhow, the rest follows pretty straightforwardly. Acknowledging the new circumstances leads to questions about what happened. And that leads to unpleasantries about doing to mitigate what was obviously false faith in a dying system. Again. The question is did you know?
