From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sun Jul 21 2002 - 20:50:39 MDT
"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> Oh, and as another couple of pieces of trivia for
> disussion -- Where did the term X-generation come
> from? and What are we going to call the post
> Z-geners? The S-gen?
>
The X-Generation term came about to apply to those of us in the post
baby-boom generation, when the Baby-boomers tried to define us. Their
(the boomers) utter lack of originality as well as their sublimated
guilt for screwing everything up with the drug laws, AIDS, and all the
other reactions to their excesses resulted in a cognitive block in
trying to label us. X-ers fall in the procreative slump between the Baby
Boom and the Echo Boom (of boomers having kids). Our generation
graduated high school from the mid-80's to the mid-90's. Since the
boomers continue to control things, their lack of originality has
extended to labelling their own kids generation (the Y-ers). Hopefully
by the time the z-generation has passed, the boomers will be in
retirement and more creative individuals can come up with more
imaginative names.
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