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As I read over an email response from a doctor in New York on the price of penis enlargements, I can't help but think about/attempt to analyze "my generation."
I wish I was knowlegeable enough to attack this subject, but sadly I can not speak from outside the box. I simply can make guesses from inside, seeing as how I can't really see the whole thing...and am predominately stupid. (please tell me Im not).
Generation Y. Apparently I fall into this title. Born after the Baby Boomers were no longer young and just as the hardcore motherfuckers of Generation X had begun their descent into boredom with everything including rejection. We don't remember the challenger. We didn't care about the Iraqi war. We fueled the birth of the internet or rather...the socialization of it. We got a little sad when those planes crashed into those buildings, which apparently ends our generation prematurely and starts the next.....those fucks don't even know what a VHS player is.....excuse me....VCR.
These may be the events, but how are we described? What makes us what we are?
I don't think we got any of the good adjectives. Baby Boomers got to be progressive and make it okay to change (then say it isn't later), Gen X got to shit on everything and not care, triumphantly. We got the internet and an early case of manic nostalgia? mostly for everything 80s? What the hell is that? we aren't angry, we aren't instigators of change of any kind, we aren't even really listless...just conflicted....we pop our pills and start talking about old ninja turtles episodes... (which is okay by me...im still in the box here)....but just like that, we choose not to snap out of it and make a decision to be something aside from meandering....Where's the fucking estuary?
We're benign, but filled with somewhat trite motivation...if not faux. We want seemingly what our baby boomer parents presently want....just more of the same. And we don't even have to put up a fight....it's already the reward for being "good." And don't I know it....have you hung out with me and my parents? they kinda have it made. But its like we can't define ourselves without them....like we can't leave the pouch....not to be conceded, but Joey-Syndrome?
As i take a break from editing a bunch of middleaged baptists talk about drug abuse, im seeing my parent's lifestyle now as something i somehow fooled myself into thinking was "right" and "good".......Although, my parents are pretty cool....
....im conflicted.
I refuse to believe the baby boomers were somehow this 'great' or 'smart' that they have seemingly figured out what is good for America for more than one generation....I would like to be able to disagree.
Eventually they will start dying in droves and then maybe....when we are all parentless, sad, and pathetic, we will make some different choices, and we can create a somewhat more definable mark on this country/planet....Hopefully it won't just be further democratization of media to the point where it kills mainstream media.....that would be interesting...although a loss of an industry.
Generation X sucked...only because they brought about Pearl Jam. I could have done without Pearl Jam.