Generation x
Generation xGeneration X
My main objective in writing this essay was to articulate my feelings on a
topic which should matter to those of us who don't want to be percieved
in such a general manner. At the same time I tried to draw comparisons
to misunderstood generations of the past. I drew the analogy about
algebra because it provides a strong backbone for an essay which could
become too abstract .
X. It is the consummate variable. It has an infinite number of
possibilities. Basic algebra teaches us that in order to find out what X is,
we would have to take the time to solve for X. The generation which I
have been born into has been labeled Generation X, as if to say that we
as a generation are considered impossible to classify, and like the letter
X, we are an entire generation of variables. This is partially true, only
because my peers and I don't have a specific issue which brings us
together. We have no war to oppose, no music calling for us to unite,
nothing cohesive which binds us as a generation. We are instead like
the molecules of some unknown gas: spread out, each floating in its own
way, occasionally colliding, but as a whole not really traveling in any
particular direction.
It is my perception that the label of Generation X has come to be almost
exclusively condescending. I consider myself an avid reader of news
periodicals, Time, Newsweek, etc., which often deal with the generation
gap that exists today from the point of view of older generations. It is my
opinion that any time the term Generation X is mentioned...
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