I'm an older Gen X. I found this video very interesting and related to a lot of it. Yes the art is probably AI, though it seems more well- managed than most AI art which often doesn't match the text on videos.
I did write a comment that I wish he had gone into the economic landscape a bit more to talk about the financial problems Gen X has encountered.
He seems to think that the movie "The Day After" about nuclear war, affected older Gen Xers very negatively. I remember that movie, and watched it as a teen and remember how much it scared me. Maybe my prepping tendencies were born that long ago. It probably was a psych-op to make an entire generation beaten down and afraid. Fear is a tool the elites love and use over and over.
One aspect of Gen X I do not like I can sum up in one word is "apathy". The passivity and sitting back stuff never was something I liked. He talks about the Gen X mode being one of telling others "I am fine" and keeping a strong stoic face to the world. I've seen that in some classmates, but I don't think that one applied to me. Maybe in my case I faced too much, I wasn't fine and the stoic outer-shell cracked long ago.
Gen X is far too apathetic and checked out, watching this video you can see how trauma impacted that and his theories about being a "latchkey kid". I was a latchkey kid, now my mother only worked part time until I was in my early teens, but she was working full time by the time I was 13. I remember going home and making meatloaf for the family age 9-10 and doing my own laundry by age 8. It's weird to me now, how it's illegal now for a kid to be home alone under 12, when I already cooked the family dinner and babysat neighborhood kids by that age.
These expectations were true for many others in my generation though my family probably took things a bit further. Maybe these different aspects made Gen Xers more private and with small circles of friends as he theorizes. One thing that disturbs me about Gen X, is when I went out into the community and did things from volunteer work, earlier protests, to churches, art classes to other endeavors, I never met any other Gen X people. They just were never there. Maybe they just aren't joiners or there was a "withdrawal process" that began when they were young.
I usually was around boomers to do these activities and then later there was a sprinkling of millennials. My husband says we live in a town that skews far older, but I am not sure. My last IFB had no Gen X people in it, and my UU church had only 1 other Gen Xer in it, who left around the same time I did. I used to get weird thoughts, "How come I am the only Gen Xer anywhere?" Gen X is far fewer in number and many have died young. This was written about in my article: Gen X: The Scapegoat Generation is Dying Young. Today I believe the Covid vaxx is basically obliterating the liberal members of Generation X who lined up. I have noted the better health of my more conservative/religious classmates I am friends with on Facebook vs those who lined up. The increased death rates among Gen X are appearing in mainstream news though obviously they are not admitting the cause.
The Gen X Health Crisis and Deaths of Despair
I did use to say among close friends, "They named us Generation X to X us out." I know it's a bit morbid, but sometimes when I look back, I think about how Gen X was set up. I was writing about these issues 10 years ago.
Generation X has gotten some bad breaks. If I am going to criticize other generations like the boomers, my own is not above criticism. Gen X was too checked out, too obedient, and too uninvolved. Maybe some of it was not their fault, they were too poor, and drowned out. Most were scrambling like me to just survive. I also think most of us were given false expectations about life that did not pan out and false expectations do set up people for despair. Many of us who have had hard lives, maybe wish we had been told the truth. I never was. Someone should have laid it out to someone in my circumstances who faced so many challenges. I find it interesting this vlogger refers to Gen X not having a voice more than a few times. He seems to think Gen X is "supporting" society doing the hard labor, there's probably some electricians and nurses out there keeping society running silently for Gen Xers who managed employment. I do think he ignores too many of the devastating economic factors. He seems to be someone who remained employed himself so maybe didn't face so many economic factors like disabled me.
He points out that many in Gen X own the book "Children of Emotionally Immature Parents". I own this book, it is a book for ACONs. Is he hinting that many of Gen X was raised by narcissists? I'm not sure but it's a core component of this video. He does say as a result of all the trauma, Gen X is less likely to put up with BS and cuts to the quick, and doesn't have time for fake people.
One odd facet of my personality is my anxiety shuts down during real emergencies, and I am a problem solver under the gun. I am probably too sick now for this to really help anyone now, but this occurred at various times in my life. There were some jokes about me being MacGyver. The last time this happened was a few years ago, when my husband accidentally locked us out of a car with dysfunctional locks in the middle of a snowstorm. I don't even remember how I got the car unlocked, I think I used a coat hanger. So this Gen X trait probably rings true for me. The picture of the office with crying people and the trash can on fire, my personality is such, I would probably enter a room like that and would yell, and tell people what to do. If the shit hits the fan, I do get bossy and don't wait for others to step up. Once I was in this apartment building in Chicago with smoke, it turned out to be a fire in the courtyard area which could have started the building on fire too. I said, "We are getting the hell out of here", as everyone else dithered around. They were offended I just left and got my then fiancé now husband to leave too. I do err on the side of caution but I can see how some people just sit by and let bad stuff happen too.
He claims Generation X holds more leadership roles than I expected. I haven't seen that and may disagree with that one. Where I live the boomers still hold on to most leadership roles with millennials rising up in them. Gen X got skipped over. He talks about the "sandwich generation". I remember years ago they talked about the Boomers being in that place. Of course only Gen Xers with families and who had children would be in that position. With most of my classmates, their parents are already deceased and most of their kids out of the house. Some may still be supporting adult children though. He says Gen X parents allowed more discussion of feelings. I hope so.
He says many Gen X are emotionally exhausted. I believe that's worsened since Covid. Many are overworked, especially now the way the economy is, my situation was different due to early disability and autism. He says more Gen X marriages have been longer-lasting than boomer marriages, that makes sense, but I believe less people got married too as the years passed by. He seems to say Gen X has character born out it's trauma and they are the "show up" generation. Gen X is starting to age now, but never got a voice. I predicted that ten years ago and was right. Years ago I used to read books claiming Gen X was going to be cleaning up a lot of messes in their old age. That one I do believe.
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