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Originally Posted by danjarch
I wouldn't put to much hope in Gen X. I represent the tail end. Born in 73, a year some what infamous for having the lowest live births since pre WW2. Which is why even as we're hitting are thirties and forties, we keep being out voted by the baby boomers. Those fellas aren't known for they're willingness to suffer.
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I don't agree with everything you said, but all-in-all that was a good post.
I think that our generation has mostly been defined not by what it is, but by what it isn't - boomers. Now that boomers are getting old and won't be running things anymore our politics will again be defined by boomers, this time by AARP and all the rest. In the end Gen X won't be a generation that will have the strength and resources to put a man on Mars, or builds great monuments to humanity. Instead we are going to be the generation who takes care of old people. There are going to be lots of old people to take care of, it's already happening. I believe we have always been a generation of "damage control experts", in a way.