That's exactly how I feel lol. I'm burnt out on all of the fear mongering Apocalypse mumbo jumbo. Thank you for taking the time to comment, I appreciate it. I'm glad you got something from the video.
As a Gen Xr I don't go to work to make friends, why is that so hard for my colleagues to understand? I just want to turn up, do my job and go home, knowing my salary is going into my bank account every month. No, I don't want to join the team's What's App group, no I don't want to go bowling on a "team building" exercise after work, or God forbid, on a weekend... and no, I don't wanna know about your family or any of your problems.
@@villanelle8888 Tried the friend-thing. Not at first, no, it took about two years and started hanging with a small group. Of the four, three turned on me and fourth joined the Corps. Came back home a changed man. I just learned he died of alcoholism. We kinda stayed in touch, but he became nomadic. Miss him. A lot. I'm done. Work. Go home.
You forgot to mention that the Boomer Generation was before us and always sucked out the oxygen out of the room. Anytime we expressed concern over anything, we were dismissed and ignored. And Boomers telling us we have no idea how hard they had it. When we had the 1991 recession and no jobs, the Boomers told us we were slackers and it's was our fault for the economy they screwed over with their Wall Street ups and downs. We were ignored by parents and older siblings and our opinion never respected. And when we did offer an opinion, we were dismissed. After being ignored for so long, and presently being ignored as well by the Boomers and Millennials, we continue to not give a f*ck since we've been ignored and disrespected for decades.
Yeah, you are on to something there. They called us lazy and now everyone recognizes us as the hardest working generation. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it!
That’s how I feel. I remember coming home from school, picking up my brother and sister from the babysitter, taking them home and starting dinner. My two older sisters did the same thing. There were five of us and we were all capable of cooking dinner for an entire family by the time we were eight or nine. We were told constantly how selfish were when we asked for basic necessities like hygiene products because our parents were always losing jobs and were on and off welfare our whole lives. I became depressed when I was in seventh grade and my school ordered my parents to take me to a therapist because I was failing in school. When the therapist asked my parents what they wanted from me they said they wanted me to graduate and get a good job and be a good example for my younger brother and sister. Neither of them were working at the time and I asked who was being a role model for me.
@@reneeschnarr6260 I can totally relate. I was the oldest and started babysitting for my parents at 9 or 10. I was totally responsible for 3 young children when I was a child. And they expected us to do what exactly when we finally got away from that? We had adult responsibilities at very young ages, and I know that sets us apart from other generations.
As a millennial, I've always admired my older gen x cousins and friends. They introduced me to good music, showed me how to fix a car and encouraged me to solve problems by thinking for myself
That's awesome 👍 I'm glad to hear that some of our good traits rubbed off on you. We do have one or two bad ones. lol Thank you for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it! I'll talk to the Counsel and see about getting you an honorary Gen-X membership. 😀
YOU WIN, Darl!!! If you can hold onto that "figure it out/think for yourself", mindset... you're gonna make it through all the COMING threats of apocalyptic events! ❤😂😂
Yeah, I like the expression on their young faces whenever is introduce to Star Wars trilogy 4,5,6 - No way he is the father!!! ; Music from the 70s 80s and 90s they pick up how different it is. from 2000s to now you can't tell the difference. I was taught identify the problem - find a solution - here is the step follow it - if it doesn't fit improvise - never RTFM that is against our DNA.
Yeah, you might be right. Our parents just sent us out into the wild and forgot about us. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I really appreciate it!
@@GenXThinks My longest stint disappearing at 12 was 3 months. It was 6 weeks before my parents even called around to see if i was at a friend's house.after 10 weeks they called the police.
@@dougied3449 I didn't start disappearing like that until I was in my mid to late teens. Your parents didn't call the cops for 10 weeks. That sounds crazy nowadays. I really don't know if my parents would have called the cops if I'd done it at 12. My parents were uh, anti law enforcement, to use today's language. 🤣
We have thick skin and healthy skepticism now lol. We don't get worried by every doom sayer. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. I appreciate it!
Hope you can do the same with swift. I have to turn her off, can't stand her voice or looks let alone having her shoved in my face when watching a football game..
Gen x kids were the "latch key' kids so most of us developed a healthy sense of independence and reliance on our selves and it was natural and expected.
Yeah, that's very true. I should have mentioned that in the video. Thanks for the insight and for taking the time to comment. I appreciate it and I appreciate you watching the video.
@kanani717 Narcissism? No, that's what you see from all the loonies posting nonsense on tiktok to get attention. Most of us would rather *not* have the attention on us, because we do just fine without it. Most of us would prefer to be told what needs done and then left alone so that we can get to doing without someone breathing down our necks and getting in the way.
@@kanani717 Dude, we weren't told we were center of the universe. We were treated like we didn't matter. It's anti narcissism. YOu are confusing us with participation trophy Millennials.
Here's the thing... It's not that we don't care. We do. We care about a lot of things. What we don't do is get all dramatic about everything, we don't sweat the small things and we don't get all twisted about things we can't change. If the house is burning down we're not going to get all excited about it. Make sure the wife and kids are safe (if you have them) and then save the pets (if you have them) if you can. Then step back and wait for the fire department to show up. If it burns to the ground, oh well. Then you sift through the ashes to salvage whatever you can and then start over. We may have a minor breakdown in 2 or 3 weeks, once the dust settles, but flipping our lid during the crisis doesn't help anyone.
@@GenXThinks Because everyone else makes mega drama out of every little damn thing. Meanwhile, we get sheet done while they beach about how hard they have it.
That's exactly how I work. I care a lot. I'm one of those weirdos that already in the 90ies started avoiding plastic, eat less meat, buy local, etc. I also do help kids that grew up in an orphanage and generally help people in need. I just don't feel the need of telling everyone about it usually, because I think it's just normal and someone has to do it so I do it. There's a problem? Let's solve it. If I fail, I'll learn something out of it and move on. I simply don't have time and energy to waste on making a fuss about it. There's too much stuff to be taken care of.
We run the Serenity Prayer backwards; we assume we have no power to change anything, because we lack the courage to challenge our assumption, thus we consider ourselves wise
We were born, threatened with repeated dooms and apocalyptic events, thoroughly disillusioned, and constantly lied to. Cynical doesn’t begin to cover it.
Well said 👍 I'll change my mind when they stop lying to us. I just can't make myself get all worked up over their next global emergency. They have something to prove to us, not the other way around. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I sincerely appreciate it!
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I actually care, but if shit went sideways I wouldn't be all surprised and losing my mind. I have half been expecting it for my whole life lol. Thanks for watching and I appreciate you taking the time to comment. I'm glad you got something from the video.
There was a scene in Grace Under Fire that portrayed you all so well. Her boss explains to her that he wants to care, but he doesn't because well, he doesn't care. It's so raw and beautiful because his character usually just yelled at people until that scene.
We don’t care because our parents and grandparents taught us to keep pushing forward. We’re the last generation who knows how to handle business despite all the cultural issues. Immigration, abortion, the economy. While it all matters to somebody, GenX knows we still need to put food on the table and that work needs to get done. Priorities.
True. We're the last generation to have real work ethic and priorities. Thanks for watching and taking the time to respond. I really appreciate it. Great insight btw.
What are real work ethics though? Living to work instead of the other way around? The younger generations dó want to work, but to support the life they wanna live. There's nothing wrong with that in fact the world should become a much happier place because of it.
Yeah, I wouldn't die on the "we know how to work" hill. Its true, and sad at the same time. Its also not entirely true, as I've worked in tech for decades, and I have watched millenials work 80 hour weeks routinely. The difference is that new generation kids want to be compensated properly for back breaking schedules. And they are willing to toss their entire life away to avoid unfair treatment. Not talking about entitled brats...plenty of those in prior generations too.
@@timothyblazer1749 That’s because millennials and younger were told how everything is wonderful! They got deceived in a different way. They graduated to have 9/11 and 17 years of war dropped in their laps. At least Gen x was told “you’re doomed” from the start. That’s why I don’t jump on the “bash millennials” bandwagon.
Never in all human history except the 50’s to the 80’s ( and only in the first world) did the common people EVER have the luxury of “being happy”. The fact that it’s conceived of as a right demonstrates first world privilege.
Killer bees, Y2K, asteroid impact, gamma ray burst, neutron bombs, bird flu, peak oil, economic disaster, nuclear winter, alien invasion to name a few of the existential threats
Oh yeah, I forgot about the killer African bees! The others you mentioned too, but those bees were scary lol. Thanks for taking the time to respond, I really appreciate it.
No, we don't. You don't care because you were raised with the perspective that the world is a very big place where the actions of a single individual are usually insignificant. However, the people who raised you to believe that were really bad at math and you never bothered to check their work.
I'm one better according to one of my friends. He told me, most people pretend they dont care but they do but apparently I pretend I do care when deep down, I just dont give a shit \m/
Yeah, my favorite of the ones I missed is the African Killer Bees. LOL My fellow Gen-Xers are helping me flesh out my list. Thank you! Thank you for watching too, I really appreciate it. I hope you got a little entertainment from the video.
We care but not enough to get on the Internet and constantly whine about it. Like other generations …we’re still at work. we’re also caring for our little elderly relatives… And if we’re not caring for them, we are worrying about them. And eventually burying them 😢
@mztweety1374 I know exactly what you mean. In the last 4 years, I had buried a Boomer (Mom) and A Silent Generation (Dad) parent. I'm also helping a Millennial (Son) with making good life choices and raising an Alpha Gen (Nephew) child. So forgive me if I or any of The Gen Xers don't have time to whine on the internet. For Gen X not to give a damn, Why is it that we (Gen X) are taking care of everyone but ourselves? If anyone needs to complain or say anything, It's Gen X. By they way, I don't care if your damn feelings are hurt. To all my Gen Xers out here, I got your back and you're not alone.
Saw a science channel headline about some planet they are having a hard time finding, they call it “Planet X”. My first thought was, leave that planet alone. They don’t want to be found. 😂😂
We've also been told we'll never get back what we paid into Social Security. Didn't care about retirement because I never expected to live this long. Still can't believe I'm turning 50 this year.
Yeah, they keep saying that SS will be bankrupt soon. Worrying about it would just make today suck more. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. I truly appreciate it!
They've been telling us that for so long that I never planned on ever collecting anything from it. I have my retirement through work, and I have my supplemental retirement accounts. IF I get to collect on SS, that'll be the money I use to play and drink beer.
@@KamasKirian716 What irritates me is the thought of the older generations taking it out as we put it in, then talking bad about us as if we ruined everything. It really chaps my hide.
As a gen xer from the UK who spent most of their childhood in Germany as an army brat, I was always being reminded that when the bombs dropped, I 'd be first to die. It's one of my first memories. Add to that I watched my uncle die over 7 years of AIDS. I was very young when I heard an adult say soon everyone is going to have AIDS. That scarred me. I was in my 20s, a decade after my peers before I became sexually active. I wonder how many of our generation watched people die of AIDS.
That was my dad back in the 1970's and in the 80's it was a lot of Nostradamus movies playing in our house on VHS and in the early 90's while in the military I thought we were in the very end times back then. The joke's on me as 45+ years later here we still are, but a thousand years to us is like one day to God.
@TwisterTornado Nope. Obviously, that one went way over your head, and the only thing you have to blame us for is laying down a nice, cushy, easy path for you. If I had to guess, you're "self-made" aren't you? You got the 10-year-old GMC Sierra with H/D window stickers because you don't actually own a motorcycle, all so you can boss people around at the local cement plant because you're in charge of a 3-person crew. What else you got, Napoleon?
@TwisterTornado Yeah, you did. You read the whole thing three times while looking at yourself in the mirror, patting yourself on the back, and reminding yourself that none of those other big, bad generations can spoil the Millennials' party.
I remember when we were the cool, mysterious generation. No one seemed to understand us. Most of our parents ignored us, and now, oddly enough, we've become the forgotten generation.
From what I see online, we're still the cool mysterious generation. Everyone tries to copy us. Look at the movies. Everyone pretty much recognizes that we're the toughest and most badass generation right now. I started this channel because of what others were saying about us. 🤘😎 Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I totally appreciate it!
I prefer intentionally invisible, but of course can be seen with a pair of kaleidoscope spy glasses. Anyone remember writing invisible notes with lemon juice that could only be read by holding the letter close but not too close to a candle flame or after ironing it. By fourth grade we all had burn scars from irons and grease splatters.
@@lisad6106 Yeah, I remember that! I never understood people who drive loud cars or anything that draws attention like that. Like they want to be pulled over. 🤣 I'd want KIT from Knight Rider, super quiet.
Yes, you think highly of yourselves. Too bad you are NOTHING and dumb as rocks as regards real-life skills, investing correctly, showing respect to others, sustainable social values, on and on and on 😂😂
And the African Killer Bees! There are quite a few that I forgot to mention. lol I have been reminded here in the comments by my awesome Gen-Xers. Thanks for watching and taking the time to respond. I really appreciate it!
Chernobyl. Who could forget 30 years of sheep marked in orange. Every time I saw them I thought about how hard it rained and how we were soaked to our underpants, and then saw the news when we got home. I met a number of kids from Chernobyl. The land of orange-dyed (contaminated) sheep was their respite.
@@eh1702 Yes, that was a major event that I should have mentioned. I do remember the orange marked sheep. Thanks for watching and taking the time to respond. I appreciate it!
Ohhh the reactions my wife and I got when the whole covid thing had everyone running around into there little holes. My wife and I thought it was ridiculous. We did not fear much. We tried to go about as normal but got the flack at every turn. My wife told a young millennial neighbor that we are not too worried. Don;t need mask or all that other crap. The millennial's eyes widened. Then my wife said, if we die, be sure to stop by the funeral. This lady's jaw dropped. She never talk to us again. My dad, a boomer, who whole heartily got sucked into the hysteria ( granted he was higher risk) visited us ,and asked if we are getting the jab. I just mumbled something like, we're not doing that crap. He straight away said, oh, you're the enemy. I tell you - boomers, millennial, even gen Z, they love this drama.
@@an80skid71 Yeah, and it's surprising that Boomers fall for that crap. They're old enough to know better. Granted, their age put them in a risk group, but they helped push the hysteria beyond common sense.
My silent era parents always said “children are to be seen and not heard.” I had no voice and no one to listen when I did have one my entire life, even today.
Yeah, I don't know how people can embrace those ideas. We have the Internet now, they can just look it up. Blows my mind to hear people promoting Socialism and Communism in the USA. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it!
Wow! You actually don't realize that what we were taught was propaganda? I'm not claiming it's a cuddly bear, but there is some equivalency between how the propaganda of the cold war and the war on drugs was not truthful.
@@donaldbraucher9885 It's only socialists/communists who act like it was just propaganda. the world proves you wrong. capitalism is the only good economic approach that benefits the people. I come from a former socialist country (East Germany) and all they did was cruel and propaganda. You think socialism is a good idea, then go in such a country to live and see for yourself what it does to you.
“We’ll all be using the metric system by 1980.” And remember when the Emergency Broadcast System used to do the Tone BEFORE telling us “This is a TEST…”? Countless times I remember driving and praying “PLEASE let this be a TEST!”. If it wasn’t, we were conditioned to know that we had about 30 minutes. Combine that with “the coming Ice Age” after being snowed in for a week after the blizzard of 78. After making it to adulthood, don’t expect our generation to participate in the panic-pôrn of “Climate Change”. We have no more F___s to give. Shaming me for driving a gas guzzler ain’t gonna work.
Exactly! I think that's how we all feel. We've seen it all and it's just one dud scare after another. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it.
Love this! At 44 - I’m end of Gen X born in 1980 - I finally f*cking made it financially - I got the biggest SUV - Expedition Max. It’s fits the kids and all our crap and if we get in an accident - we will be a little safer. I don’t give any f*cks how much gas it’s guzzling. 😂
@@rawbarbie Be proud of your missing f*cks, they were useless anyway. 🤣 I'm always happy to hear from like minded people. I hope you are enjoying the channel. Thanks for taking the time to comment. I appreciate it!
May be late to the party here, but Gen X and I think we cared too much and we learned no one else cared so we learned not to care so we didn’t get hurt. 🤷♀️
Very interesting take on the process. It could have very well evolved that way. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I am truly grateful!
Exactly. I completely agree. Sometimes it just seems like we're staying alive until we get to see what's next. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I truly appreciate it!
I would say that as a group gen-X has made it our mission to be individuals and independent from groups. That as a whole makes us a group of adults who don't back down from the oddities of the world. It's all a funny game to us now..life is entertainment. So the crazier it gets the more we kind of like it.
@@tanktop25 What you're actually describing is that you're a DELUSIONAL generation unable to adjust to reality and adapt to change or to overcome obstacles. Very sad generation.
It sure was, and don't forget about the African Killer Bees! 🤣 We've heard it all huh? Thank you for watching and for taking the time to comment. I seriously appreciate it!
1983 we came close a few times if y'all remember. That year was my 6th Grade year and if you could go back in time and wander the hallways between classes, you wouldn't hear talk about movies, sports, or the opposite sex, no. What you'd hear being talked about a lot of the time: Nuclear Disarmament. Especially when the movie The Day After Tomorrow aired on TV in the fall of 1983. This and many other reasons are why - when we heard the Berlin Wall was coming down - many of us wept, and a lot of us cried. Even as a HS senior at a huge house party when people heard the news they were either wyping tears or standing in silence. After 20 minutes of hugs and tears, the music came back and it was a way better party after that! We were so hopeful for the future. I will never forget those 10 years between 1980 and 1990.
Awesome times. I remember when that wall came down. The news reels of people taking chunks of it. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it!
One thing though: we weren't raised in the toxic soup of the Internet and current social media lunacy, where everyone is living up in everyone-else's ass, metaphorically-speaking. The immediacy of the 'meta-crisis' is now in everyone's face, and that's putting a dark twist on _all_ generations, but especially the youth, as this hyper-connected techno-dystopia lurches-on towards the abyss.
It's not that we don't care. We care a lot. But we also know we can't change anything that happens, so if something catastrophic ever does happen, we'll do our best to survive. Great video. Love your channel!
We learned from a very early age that our feelings and opinions only matter to us as individuals. Everything else is debatable but no one had time to care about feelings. Insulting each other was a pass time, it was for fun, No one cared about what someone called us, we just had a bag full of comebacks to any insult to throw back. Something very much lacking in today's society.
You said that right 👍 The insults flew both ways and it was all for fun. The best friends insulted each other the most. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it!
Born in ‘74. I agree with your insights. We were fed more catastrophic events in our lives- real and fake -than we had the capacity to respond to. Compound this reality with half of us witnessing our parents divorcing. I think we Gen Xers grew up with a lot less delusions concerning the “American Dream” or the delusion that life was going to be easy. Further, we grew up with a “high tolerance” for pain and disappointment. Finally, we knew were weren’t “special”, we expected to have to push our way through.
Add independence and resilience to that excellent list and you have the makings for a book. Great comment 👍 Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I sincerely appreciate it!
A very good insight into our generation. We do actually care but it seems like we don't to others because we're not scared to death of every apocalypse emergency the throw at us. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I appreciate it!
The most important phrase you said here was, "We learned". In some way we were still connected to our fathers and grandfathers past, we learned from their movies, their music and their TV shows.
Yes, there is an affinity and appreciation for WWII and the Great Depression in our generation. Probably because our grandparents were from that generation. Indoor plumbing, electricity, modern antibiotics, and tractors were new then and costly. I have photos of my grandmother's family still using horses to plow fields in the '30. Or the root cellar under the house, packed with stray, where the winter ice cut from the lakes/rivers was stored so they had ice through the summer. But these things are too abstract for the kids these days to really understand.
@@KamasKirian716 Your completely correct. I remember that stuff too. Stories about the Depression and the old cars when they just started becoming popular. Kids today are disconnected from the past because society has changed so much due to technology.
It’s not that we don’t care we’re burned out. A lot of us went through our parents divorces and remarriages and came home and raised our siblings while our parents had their midlife crisis’. Everyone I know who’s my age has been working since they could walk and a lot of us are raising grandchildren along with our parents.
I was born in 1972, and was a hard-core punker in high school in a small country town in state of New Mexico. My hair stood up in all directions. I wore a painted and spiked leather jacket and combat boots. Talk about independence and defiance. I carry those traits to this day. I see how increasingly dependent and indoctrinated our society is becoming with each passing year and generation.
I see it too, and I honestly feel bad for these kids. We were very independent and resourceful. It's a great feeling to be that way. No wonder why the younger people have self esteem issues, the victim mentality isn't good for building strength and character. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it!
@@livingartdesigns06 You're very welcome. I honestly enjoy swapping thoughts and ideas with my fellow Gen-Xers. Thanks again for watching and spending your time to comment. I'm truly grateful.
I have helped raise four children. Seeing what a dysfunctional society they will inherent, has compelled me to learn everything I can to understand the hows, the whys and the lies, so that I can guide them as best as I can. Unfortunately, even a parent with the best of intentions, is up against a society bent on self destruction that will not end well for anyone.
I'm afraid that I must agree with you. I don't like the direction our society is headed, but I hope I'm ready for it. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it!
I was told recently that I don’t care about anything. I didn’t realize it’s a generational thing. I grew up one of five children. We were poor & our mother was an alcoholic. I had to grow up pretty fast & learn how to survive. I never cared cause no one around me seemed to care. Now that I’m older I only care about making my money & going home. Everything else is just bs.
One of my favorite movies ever is Reality Bites. I was the same age as the stars of the movie., and it stuck home. The cynical attitude as we realize our parents done raised us. You're an adult figure it out...kid We didn't see opportunity back then. A generic degree gets you a generic job. There are thousands of new graduates looking for work. You might as well just work at the Gap. A lot of us grew up with only one parent working. That one job provided for a family. A lot of women chose to work and that's great. But then child care went through the roof. That child care usually ate up one of the couples income. Everything seemed to increase in price in the '80s. Both parents working became a necessity. That lead to less children being free range. The latchkey. We became numb. We became detached. We all had a burden of fear installed by the government and by our parents. But we had MTV.
GenX here, too many people today fight on the 'behalf' of other people or groups. GenX just minds our own business and gets on with life. Plus we had thick skin, and the current young generations are afraid of everything and thinks everything is a micro aggression 😅
You said that right! 👍. Microagression, what a crock of whiny crap. 🤣 I can't believe that people would choose to be that way on purpose. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it!
I think after being let down so many times, then we get to the point we don’t care lol, because caring changes nothing… just hurts us… so ya, we look after ourselves, and our kids, and screw the rest.
@@GenxJul I agree 👍 We care about certain things that actually matter, but we can't find any feeling for the next big global emergency. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it!
..we inherited the ideals of the 60’s Woodstock counter culture which the boomers sold-out for$$$…gen x were the real hippies..poets,artists,muso’s…non-joiners…anti-establi$hment cynics
We are still getting used to pay into a SS fund that we won't ever be able to use. The Boomers are depleting it as soon as we put it in. It's a sad fact. You just have to laugh. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it!
I just turned 50 in mid September 2024 (it appears that makes me in the Gen X box) never married, no kids and no, I don't care about anything else except making it to the end of whatever time I have left on this planet with not marrying, not having kids and just doing what I have to in order to survive and try and fit a little fun here and there. After graduating high school in the early 90's and going to community college and university throughout the rest of the 90's, and various jobs I had, it was made incrementally clear that men's roles in this society are at best looked at as a necessary evil. What man wants to pull himself out of bed and be "traditional" when half of the population doesn't want anything to do with you unless you are and "A Lister," something very close, OR you are a prison guerilla muscled out with tattoos and an elephant tool? Being a hero is NOT in the cards for most men and Gen X feemails (misspelled to avoid deletion, not to be funny) at this point are well past "the wall" and have loads of baggage that their male counterparts do not have and would not be able to build a life together just based three decades of different dynamics even if they were the same paths MOST Gen X's someone said in another video do NOT own a home, don't have sufficient savings, and have way more debt than they should have. Yes, a lot of that can be attributed to personal nonsense choices but compounded with that is 95% of other Gen X people who I know have not had the same purchasing power in the last 30 years their parents had to acquire a home and/or manage income to consistently set aside for savings. I thank God that I do not have a single penny worth of debt of any kind whatsoever, no credit card, student, medical, lawsuit, an God knows what else. In conclusion, the combination of politics, society, economics, employment, urbans stresses, and ghendhar dienamicks (misspelled to avoid deletion, not to be funny) all seem to in this odd way expertly keep people locked into a mindset of just do what you can and nothing more because so many others don't care anyways.
Very interesting and well said. There are so many factors that go into societal behavior, but people are always quick to blame it on one particular thing. The truth is usually much more complex, as you have pointed out here. Thank you for watching and for taking the time to comment. I genuinely appreciate it!
Gen X here as well. I’m 56 and I just don’t care anymore. Information overload and yet no one seems to be able to use it for good. I see young people at work locked to their phones all day long with no eye on the future. Our parents didn’t listen to us and these younger people don’t listen to us either. I’ve got a big bag of whatever just for them.
Yeah, sometimes I think that a post apocalyptic world would be better. I try not to stay in that place in my head though. Thanks for watching the video and taking the time to respond. I truly appreciate it.
Don't forget about the challenger explosion we watched on TV at school. If you grew up in the Midwest, we also had tornado drills at school, which we have survived several of them, and still do. I've also been an earthquakes a few times in the Midwest, and in California. I am Gen X, 1971.
I remember watching the Challenger explosion in science class. Tornadoes are crazy. We have hurricanes down here, but they don't hold a candle to the sheer destructive force of a twister. I remember doing the drills where we had to hide under our desk. Thanks for reminding me of the things I missed and for watching. I truly appreciate you taking the time to comment as well.
Yeah, that was special because at least in my HS it spilled over into multiple traumas: rumor was going around that the Russians blew it up and not only were there 7 dead astronauts blown apart IFO thousands of school children watching live, but we had about 30min to live because the birds were in the air. Good times.
Yeah! It's starting to look like flying cars will never show up, so tossing us some hoverboards is the least they could do. Thanks for watching and commenting. I appreciate it!
We didn't worry about the sun. I got sunburned all the time, and nothing ever bad came from it. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it!
I grew up an an Air Force base in Germany with the Berlin Wall up. Soldiers yelling at each other in French, German and English every day on my walk to school. No one cared, latchkey kids unite!!!Parents ignored me for 3 days BOTH times I broke major bones, I'm not talking fingers or toes. Post apocalyptic movies on Tubi are the best! 😂 so bad they're good ❤
Trauma causes people to be calm in a crissis. I think that's one thing that goes on for Gen X. Another is that we knew there was going to be an awful event every day of our life. We took our fun when we could and we had a lot of fun between those devastating events. It means that we've been trained to associate one with the other. If life is shit, it's also going to have an amazing place to escape to.
I remember the drills about ducking under the desk in case of a nuclear bomb. Like that would help. I said to my teacher if a bomb goes off the desk isn't going to save us. They said it would protect us from flying glass from the windows breaking..... They missed the point.
78 vintage here. I asked my parents about the bomb drills and the book thing. They were like, "yeah, we don't really know either and don't care about the Cold War". BUT this is Texas, at least ya'll go to the locker area for that drill, in case of a tornado". My childhood home was new, but it came with an older tornado bunker. It cost 35K then. Now it's been redone and sold for 150k, AND they just removed the storm/bomb shelter. They just built a carport over it, when it already had a garage. We do get huge hail, I wouldn't trust that silly carport.
I used to think we had to do it to make our bodies easier to identify not ever thinking about who'd be left to identify us😂 We had literal bomb scares too where we had to evacuate to the field while the school was searched. NBD🤷♀️
We grew up treated like we were a nuisance by our parents, we all got the "children are meant to be seen not heard" from a parent if we dare interrupt them while one the phone reading or when the were speaking to an adult, we didn't dare defy or argue with our parents outta fear and all were told when your 18 we we're expected to get out , you fell down and hurt yourself no one kisses it better, you were told stop being a baby get up and shake it off ,so we did, even when you probably needed stitches no one was taking you to the doctor for several hours until they realize the bleeding wouldn't stop on it own , if you had a learning disability you were label dumb not by your friends by the school and your parents that decided because they knew you were smart then you must be lazy, No one cared about us so that's definitely part of it, I agree with the impending doom ,was talk to my golden generation dad he says to me I've no idea what it was like growing up with the threat of nuclear war like him , there were no missiles that could cross an ocean back in the 40s 50s , for us they could plant them at your doorstep 😂 ,but that's what our mostly boomer parents did belittled all our experiences , my dad would complain how far he had to walk to get the bus to goto school years later he showed me his childhood home , I walked 4x the distance to my school no bus in the winter ,but the thing I'd say my is why I don't care is I've watched everything we changed for the better in this world, like being friends with who ever lived in your neighborhood, without ever considering what race , ethnicity, or religion and well just look at North America now everyone hating on each other , you can't even hang out with your friends of a different race without someone making a comment like it's wrong.
Yes, I definitely agree with you. We got some things right, and at least began to make the world a better place, but even that has been taken from us. Thanks for watching and commenting. I truly appreciate your time!
In my opinion there is alot of us that care about things, but the ones you mentioned I agree. I think we don't emotionally react to things all the time, so people think we don't care and mistake a big emotional display and over reacting to things as not caring.
Gen-Xer (born 1971) This man is speaking the truth. The whole life of threats of apocalypse every day and raised to think and do for ourselves and not expect handouts. I raised my boys to be the same way.
Thanks for the vote of confidence and for raising kids who have heads on their shoulders. They will be valued by their community one day. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I truly appreciate it!
My younger coworkers were stressing about Putin and Un officially saying they are country buddies. I just shrugged and rolled my eyes. They tried to convince me of their concern and told me I didn't understand what that meant... I totally understood what it COULD mean... but I am no longer going to put my life on hold and get all stressed out about something I can't control.
Exactly! 👍 That's why they think we don't care about anything, because we don't care about their latest cataclysm. Thanks for watching and taking the time to respond. I sincerely appreciate it!
What people don't get about us. It's that "We don't care" is not the same as "We don't overreact" or "We aren't driven by our emotions". I think we lean more towards the second option. Today all I see around me is people "reacting" instead of "acting". And "acting" can be "Noticing but don't make a drama out of it". We see, we care but what's the point to generate stress and misery with emotions that won't resolve the problem in any way ? We care but only about the things we have the power and will to change. For the rest, we accept it..even if we don't agree with.
You are absolutely right. I started making these videos because I was reading stuff online about how other generations are mad because we don't care. We all know that we do care, saying we don't is meant to be a thumb in the eye of the media and Boomer politicians who have lied to us about so much over the years. Thanks for watching and for your insightful comments. I truly appreciate it!
@@GenXThinks Thanks to you ! I just subscribed ;) The line "how other generations are mad because we don't care" is the perfect example ! Generations past Gen X are "mad"... I just want to say "well buddy it's your problem if you're mad, I'm not responsible of your emotions"
Yep right when people had been properly liberated from the old fashioned restrictions. I mean, it was probably Gen X who really took it that extra mile 😂
Yes, I should have mentioned that one. Acid Rain actually scared me the most as a kid. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it!
We also had parents and grandparents who saw and survived multiple wars and teachers who actually taught us some history. So, we all knew from an early age that this end-of-the-world song and dance had been going on for a long time.
We went to school and were punished with the belt or ruler for just being loud, lol. I member the entire class in grades 1 and 2 and getting the strap to behave. These last two generations never experienced that.
No they haven't, and it shows. Some things that hurt us made us good people. Why they stopped corporal punishment I have no idea. No kid ever died from it that I know of. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it!
1971 here and that doesn't sound like my experience. I remember one after school show about a family sheltering after a nuclear explosion but I don't remember being inundated with that stuff. Movies like Mad Max may have been popular but were just not in my genre of movies that I would want to go watch. I There was a family that I babysat for who was fastidious about sunscreen but they were the exception and not the rule. I wish I were fastidious about sunscreen myself back then since it can really slow down photo aging.
Because we grew-up being instructed by '50's principles ,in the '70's. Grounded, we snuck around ,but nothing approaching this...these people are 'rudderless'. I shudder to think of the reaction of some of my mentors....Pray for these people. Really. 🙏
We are the "whatever it takes" generation. We are successful because we do whatever it takes to make it happen!!! And we were usually on our own to make it happen. Wouldn't change a thing, it has made me the man that I am.
Maximum Overdrive scared the heck out of me. There was a video on MTV by Mike & the Mechanics called Silent Running. That's a classic but very creepy & apocalyptic.
Remeber a sports teacher jelling after someone broke her leg: "Stop whining! Its just s flesh wound!" .... or in biology: 30 degree celsius are 30 degree celsius, and no one cares about your subjective feelings with that!" Daily life was so rude.... but we knew what humorous sarcasm was.... today no one understands that anymore.
The problem everyone has with us is that we’re not weak we tell you what you’re problem is whether you wanna hear it or not and we don’t sugar coat anything and everything we have we worked for unlike the other generations. Need I really go on.
Because the only attention we received was negative so we go about our business without attracting attention. We do care just not about what you think we should care about.
I totally agree. Because we don't care about what they care about, they act like we're defined by apathy. Good point 👍 Thanks for watching and commenting. I sincerely appreciate it!
Remember "The Satanic Panic" of the 80s? 🤣 And how if you played records backwards Satan would show up? And all the churches losing their minds over every little thing?
Yeah, I sure do. It's one of the many things that I should have added in the video. Remember the African Killer Bees? LOL I have a great bunch of Gen-Xers reminding me of all the phony scares they tried on us. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment. I truly appreciate it!
You quickly learned you were on your own and there was nobody there to help and you had to help yourself. You disposed of little feelings and useless details to accomplish tasks. This made you fast and reliable with excellent problem solving skills. In comparison, we feel that everybody else is standing there crying over a cup of spilled milk. After something happens, taking a time out to reflect on it, doesn't fix it. Mop it up and move on because that is ultimately what you will have to do anyway. Six cups of spilled milk equals six timeouts and six times the sadness for most. Gen X will just bring a blanket instead of a mop, soak it up and toss it in the washing machine. Waste your own time and cry in a corner at home if you like. It's still a waste of time, the most important thing you have in life.
Gen X will never retire OR surrender. We are the FREEST generation ever and one of the most self sufficient. We understand in our bones that it's "better to burn out than fade away!"
Hail yeah! We don't need no water! I know that I value freedom above all else, and I'm sure that most of my fellow Gen-Xers feel the same. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I sincerely appreciate it!
GenX some of my favorite people! Work hard play hard salt of the earth people. I'm last of the boomers but much more in common with X. They definitely care, but don't tell them what to think!
Gen-X is a mindset more than a date on the calendar in my opinion. It's fun to toss out dates and talk about hose water, but I think that a lot of people can relate who were born just before and after the listed dates. Thank you so much for watching and for taking the time to comment. I really do appreciate it!
I agree the fear mongering doesnt work that well on us, maybe because we had to interact in person with people including bullies, you either needed to fight or be a doormat. Even if you lost they would repect it and leave you alone.
True. The anonymity and physical distance of the Internet era have given rise to a lot of character changes, not all of them good. Thank you for watching and for taking the time to respond. I sincerely appreciate it!
Yeah, they made movies about that one. lol I'm still waiting for the Acid Rain movie. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I truly appreciate it!
How did we survive. They scared us half to death with Jaws, Piranhas, Big Foot, Killer Bees, Devil Worshipers and crazed Chainsaw Dudes from Texas. I still laugh at the Ozone layer hole and other dumb shit. There’s a lot more !!! Growing up in 70’s/80’s….wow what a shit show. I still can’t stand the now growing old 60-70’s Hippie people and stupid Harleys. The young people today are Alien Morons. Yeah we just say F it all and laugh.
When I cared, life was much more difficult. Basically everything was already broken before we got here and the internet didn't help things at all. Apathy is the secret to a happy life.
I'm 51 . I never look back because I'm always looking forward, to my next accomplishment, my next challenge or my next problem. I'm always trying to better myself at all cost . And I don't have time for cry babies.
It's probably due to the Internet but it seems like there are a lot of crybabies nowadays. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I truly appreciate it!
He's right about the litany of catastrophes drip fed to us throughout our development. The opening minutes of the film "Pleasantville" (1998) includes a good example of this used to set the mood.
I'm going to have to check that out. I've never seen that movie. Thanks for the tip. Also thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I sincerely appreciate it!
its definitely something i noticed like every time i see something weird or suspect they are like who cares .even things they should care about like when all their stuff breaks down they just ignore it
"things they should care about" that's the sticking point. We don't care about the things other people think we should care about. We have learned not to waste our emotional energy on things we cannot control, or may not be true. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it!
Gen -X in the UK had to watch the BBC film Threads in school. Just so we could see that those who died when the bombs dropped would be the lucky ones. We were told daily that we had no future, pain and suffering was all we had to look forward to. It's no accident that admissions to universities shot up after the Berlin wall fell down.
I’m a 55 YO Aussie X’er. My great grandad was born in 1893 and died when I was 22 he taught me how to chop wood and set the fire in not only his wood burning stove in the kitchen (which he kept using until the very end) but also his hot water service in the bathroom. He was 11 years old when he and his dad went there separate ways at Station Pier, Port Melbourne to become what you yanks call lumberjacks in the mountains of Victoria. His daughter aka my Nana also made it to nearly 100 she was a tiny scarecrow of a woman who sewed up shoes in a factory her whole life and had hands that were as strong as eagles talons. Her husband died fighting the Japanese on the Kokoda trail in Papua New Guinea and as a child her home burned to the ground in the bushfires of the 1930’s where her Mum had managed to rescue the sewing machine and the curtains and made her a school uniform from them that night in the barn and sent her to school the very next day. My dad was a boilermaker who worked his arse off for his wife and kids and taught me how to hunt and fish. THESE ARE ALL THE PEOPLE THAT RAISED ME. And they were WISE. Now I watch my much younger housemate raise her kid with an iPad and she wonders why I get pissed about it. So, Yeah I care, actually. But. It’s only useful to care if the young actually listen to the Wisdom of their Elders. Which they patently do not. And btw one of the things I quite like about getting old is I’m allowed to be grumpy. Also back in the day we made some really frikn cool music too…lol
Yes, I totally agree. Back then we weren't influenced by people online. The values of society have radically changed in a relatively short time. Not only do you need to teach children today, but you must try to get them to unlearn the BS they've picked up online. It's not easy today. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I sincerely appreciate it!
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I'm 59, I've been through the end of the world 3 times. Bite me.....
That's exactly how I feel lol. I'm burnt out on all of the fear mongering Apocalypse mumbo jumbo. Thank you for taking the time to comment, I appreciate it. I'm glad you got something from the video.
ONLY 3?
Stay alive for 1975!
Agreed, I'm almost 59 and I'm too hip, gotta go. 🙌
What kind of apocalypse are we having this week? 🤣
As a Gen Xr I don't go to work to make friends, why is that so hard for my colleagues to understand? I just want to turn up, do my job and go home, knowing my salary is going into my bank account every month.
No, I don't want to join the team's What's App group, no I don't want to go bowling on a "team building" exercise after work, or God forbid, on a weekend... and no, I don't wanna know about your family or any of your problems.
Yeah, you said it! 👍 Work isn't life. Spending off time at work functions isn't our idea of a good time.
Lol that's so true！😂
Heck yeah!
@@villanelle8888 Tried the friend-thing. Not at first, no, it took about two years and started hanging with a small group. Of the four, three turned on me and fourth joined the Corps. Came back home a changed man. I just learned he died of alcoholism. We kinda stayed in touch, but he became nomadic. Miss him. A lot. I'm done. Work. Go home.
You nailed it!! Gen X don't like extra BS!!!
You forgot to mention that the Boomer Generation was before us and always sucked out the oxygen out of the room. Anytime we expressed concern over anything, we were dismissed and ignored. And Boomers telling us we have no idea how hard they had it. When we had the 1991 recession and no jobs, the Boomers told us we were slackers and it's was our fault for the economy they screwed over with their Wall Street ups and downs. We were ignored by parents and older siblings and our opinion never respected. And when we did offer an opinion, we were dismissed. After being ignored for so long, and presently being ignored as well by the Boomers and Millennials, we continue to not give a f*ck since we've been ignored and disrespected for decades.
Yeah, you are on to something there. They called us lazy and now everyone recognizes us as the hardest working generation. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it!
That’s how I feel. I remember coming home from school, picking up my brother and sister from the babysitter, taking them home and starting dinner. My two older sisters did the same thing. There were five of us and we were all capable of cooking dinner for an entire family by the time we were eight or nine. We were told constantly how selfish were when we asked for basic necessities like hygiene products because our parents were always losing jobs and were on and off welfare our whole lives. I became depressed when I was in seventh grade and my school ordered my parents to take me to a therapist because I was failing in school. When the therapist asked my parents what they wanted from me they said they wanted me to graduate and get a good job and be a good example for my younger brother and sister. Neither of them were working at the time and I asked who was being a role model for me.
Are you me?!
@@reneeschnarr6260 I can totally relate. I was the oldest and started babysitting for my parents at 9 or 10. I was totally responsible for 3 young children when I was a child. And they expected us to do what exactly when we finally got away from that? We had adult responsibilities at very young ages, and I know that sets us apart from other generations.
@infinitewatersss5959 It's hard to watch as they continue the same attitude into the 21st century.
As a millennial, I've always admired my older gen x cousins and friends. They introduced me to good music, showed me how to fix a car and encouraged me to solve problems by thinking for myself
That's awesome 👍 I'm glad to hear that some of our good traits rubbed off on you. We do have one or two bad ones. lol Thank you for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it! I'll talk to the Counsel and see about getting you an honorary Gen-X membership. 😀
YOU WIN, Darl!!! If you can hold onto that "figure it out/think for yourself", mindset... you're gonna make it through all the COMING threats of apocalyptic events! ❤😂😂
Yeah, I like the expression on their young faces whenever is introduce to Star Wars trilogy 4,5,6 - No way he is the father!!! ; Music from the 70s 80s and 90s they pick up how different it is. from 2000s to now you can't tell the difference. I was taught identify the problem - find a solution - here is the step follow it - if it doesn't fit improvise - never RTFM that is against our DNA.
Thanks. Don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say something nice about our generation ever….. so this is a first. 😊
Gen X has NEVER cared, because no one ever gave a damn about us.
Yeah, you might be right. Our parents just sent us out into the wild and forgot about us. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I really appreciate it!
PREACH!!
@@GenXThinks My longest stint disappearing at 12 was 3 months. It was 6 weeks before my parents even called around to see if i was at a friend's house.after 10 weeks they called the police.
@@dougied3449 I didn't start disappearing like that until I was in my mid to late teens. Your parents didn't call the cops for 10 weeks. That sounds crazy nowadays. I really don't know if my parents would have called the cops if I'd done it at 12. My parents were uh, anti law enforcement, to use today's language. 🤣
@@GenXThinks i rode my bicycle to next town where my older sister lived. I stayed with her. They were used to me rving with my grandparents so.
Yep, as an x, after all the fear mongering, all I can say is “whatever”.
We have thick skin and healthy skepticism now lol. We don't get worried by every doom sayer. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. I appreciate it!
I usually have the Jeremy Clarkson reaction... "Oh No... Anyways, as I was saying..."
@@Brenelael 👍
We also survived Steven Segal's movie career.
(Gen-X, 1966)
Barely! 🤣 Thank you for watching and for taking the time to comment. I appreciate it!
Hope you can do the same with swift.
I have to turn her off, can't stand her voice or looks let alone having her shoved in my face when watching a football game..
OMG! You win the Internets today all day!
😂🙃
I just BARELY survived that one.
Frankly, I'm disappointed in the in the lack of apocalypse.
I'm with you lol. They keep letting me down. 🤣 Thank you for taking the time to respond. I really appreciate it.
I know right….pffft. 😂
lol
That was my retirement plan because I was forced to spend my 401k.
That fact has led to my growing cynicism.
The world has been on the brink of destruction my entire life. I survived them all.
We're probably the toughest generation as well. We are survivors. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it!
Gen x kids were the "latch key' kids so most of us developed a healthy sense of independence and reliance on our selves and it was natural and expected.
Yeah, that's very true. I should have mentioned that in the video. Thanks for the insight and for taking the time to comment. I appreciate it and I appreciate you watching the video.
Exactly!
Nah you guys just developed narcissism.
@kanani717 Narcissism? No, that's what you see from all the loonies posting nonsense on tiktok to get attention. Most of us would rather *not* have the attention on us, because we do just fine without it. Most of us would prefer to be told what needs done and then left alone so that we can get to doing without someone breathing down our necks and getting in the way.
@@kanani717 Dude, we weren't told we were center of the universe. We were treated like we didn't matter. It's anti narcissism. YOu are confusing us with participation trophy Millennials.
Here's the thing...
It's not that we don't care. We do. We care about a lot of things. What we don't do is get all dramatic about everything, we don't sweat the small things and we don't get all twisted about things we can't change.
If the house is burning down we're not going to get all excited about it. Make sure the wife and kids are safe (if you have them) and then save the pets (if you have them) if you can. Then step back and wait for the fire department to show up. If it burns to the ground, oh well. Then you sift through the ashes to salvage whatever you can and then start over. We may have a minor breakdown in 2 or 3 weeks, once the dust settles, but flipping our lid during the crisis doesn't help anyone.
Very true. It just seems like we don't care to everyone else. Thank you for watching and taking the time to respond. I sincerely appreciate it!
@@GenXThinks Because everyone else makes mega drama out of every little damn thing. Meanwhile, we get sheet done while they beach about how hard they have it.
That's exactly how I work. I care a lot. I'm one of those weirdos that already in the 90ies started avoiding plastic, eat less meat, buy local, etc. I also do help kids that grew up in an orphanage and generally help people in need. I just don't feel the need of telling everyone about it usually, because I think it's just normal and someone has to do it so I do it. There's a problem? Let's solve it. If I fail, I'll learn something out of it and move on.
I simply don't have time and energy to waste on making a fuss about it. There's too much stuff to be taken care of.
@@helgaioannidis9365 I had no idea there were still orphanages. We dno't have them in the US. Are you in a different country?
We run the Serenity Prayer backwards; we assume we have no power to change anything, because we lack the courage to challenge our assumption, thus we consider ourselves wise
We were born, threatened with repeated dooms and apocalyptic events, thoroughly disillusioned, and constantly lied to. Cynical doesn’t begin to cover it.
Well said 👍 I'll change my mind when they stop lying to us. I just can't make myself get all worked up over their next global emergency. They have something to prove to us, not the other way around. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I sincerely appreciate it!
Dude…we care…but we don’t, it’s hard to explain.
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I actually care, but if shit went sideways I wouldn't be all surprised and losing my mind. I have half been expecting it for my whole life lol. Thanks for watching and I appreciate you taking the time to comment. I'm glad you got something from the video.
Indifference: the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern.
There was a scene in Grace Under Fire that portrayed you all so well. Her boss explains to her that he wants to care, but he doesn't because well, he doesn't care. It's so raw and beautiful because his character usually just yelled at people until that scene.
We dont sweat the unimportant stuff. If shit got REAL, like proper REAl, then we'd knuckle down and get with the programme.
Yeah we would. 👍
We don’t care because our parents and grandparents taught us to keep pushing forward. We’re the last generation who knows how to handle business despite all the cultural issues. Immigration, abortion, the economy. While it all matters to somebody, GenX knows we still need to put food on the table and that work needs to get done. Priorities.
True. We're the last generation to have real work ethic and priorities. Thanks for watching and taking the time to respond. I really appreciate it. Great insight btw.
What are real work ethics though? Living to work instead of the other way around? The younger generations dó want to work, but to support the life they wanna live. There's nothing wrong with that in fact the world should become a much happier place because of it.
Yeah, I wouldn't die on the "we know how to work" hill. Its true, and sad at the same time. Its also not entirely true, as I've worked in tech for decades, and I have watched millenials work 80 hour weeks routinely.
The difference is that new generation kids want to be compensated properly for back breaking schedules. And they are willing to toss their entire life away to avoid unfair treatment.
Not talking about entitled brats...plenty of those in prior generations too.
@@timothyblazer1749
That’s because millennials and younger were told how everything is wonderful! They got deceived in a different way. They graduated to have 9/11 and 17 years of war dropped in their laps. At least Gen x was told “you’re doomed” from the start. That’s why I don’t jump on the “bash millennials” bandwagon.
Never in all human history except the 50’s to the 80’s ( and only in the first world) did the common people EVER have the luxury of “being happy”. The fact that it’s conceived of as a right demonstrates first world privilege.
Killer bees, Y2K, asteroid impact, gamma ray burst, neutron bombs, bird flu, peak oil, economic disaster, nuclear winter, alien invasion to name a few of the existential threats
Oh yeah, I forgot about the killer African bees! The others you mentioned too, but those bees were scary lol. Thanks for taking the time to respond, I really appreciate it.
Acid rain, nuclear fall out, did we worry no, we was drinking wrank water out of the hose, we are literally invincible 😂
😅😅spot on plus quick sand.
Jaws too
The harmonic convergence, acid rain, being left alone all day without warning or instructions at 6
We really don't care. The other generations need to leave us alone.🤷🏾♀️ Proud GenXer here.
They can keep their drama lol. Thanks for responding. I appreciate your time.
@@GenXThinks I know right. We don't do drama. We wake up, go to work and come back home to our peaceful lives. 😂 Lol.
No, we don't. You don't care because you were raised with the perspective that the world is a very big place where the actions of a single individual are usually insignificant. However, the people who raised you to believe that were really bad at math and you never bothered to check their work.
I'm one better according to one of my friends. He told me, most people pretend they dont care but they do but apparently I pretend I do care when deep down, I just dont give a shit \m/
They never cared a damn about us, so ...
You forgot AIDS & HIV, but I understand there's a lot of stuff to list.
Yeah, my favorite of the ones I missed is the African Killer Bees. LOL My fellow Gen-Xers are helping me flesh out my list. Thank you! Thank you for watching too, I really appreciate it. I hope you got a little entertainment from the video.
Ha!
@GenXThinks You're Awesome
@@GenXThinks please make a meme list that we can all add onto
@@apsarasangreal84 Thanks
The Gen X generation are doers not talkers. They don't sit around arguing with you, they just go forward and DO THINGS.
You got that right! 👍 We get it done. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it!
This is a FACT
We care but not enough to get on the Internet and constantly whine about it. Like other generations …we’re still at work. we’re also caring for our little elderly relatives… And if we’re not caring for them, we are worrying about them. And eventually burying them 😢
Very true. Thank you very much for your insights. I appreciate you taking the time to respond.
We BUILT the internet they're whining on.
Exactly
we BUILT the internet they're whining on.
@mztweety1374 I know exactly what you mean. In the last 4 years, I had buried a Boomer (Mom) and A Silent Generation (Dad) parent. I'm also helping a Millennial (Son) with making good life choices and raising an Alpha Gen (Nephew) child. So forgive me if I or any of The Gen Xers don't have time to whine on the internet. For Gen X not to give a damn, Why is it that we (Gen X) are taking care of everyone but ourselves? If anyone needs to complain or say anything, It's Gen X. By they way, I don't care if your damn feelings are hurt. To all my Gen Xers out here, I got your back and you're not alone.
Saw a science channel headline about some planet they are having a hard time finding, they call it “Planet X”. My first thought was, leave that planet alone. They don’t want to be found. 😂😂
LOL, you're right about that! Thanks for responding. I appreciate you taking the time to do it. Have a great day!
It's called Niburu.
It's trying to find time for itself
😂 so true
Just like this Gen-X. Don't poke the bear, fair warning.
We've also been told we'll never get back what we paid into Social Security. Didn't care about retirement because I never expected to live this long. Still can't believe I'm turning 50 this year.
Yeah, they keep saying that SS will be bankrupt soon. Worrying about it would just make today suck more. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. I truly appreciate it!
They've been telling us that for so long that I never planned on ever collecting anything from it. I have my retirement through work, and I have my supplemental retirement accounts. IF I get to collect on SS, that'll be the money I use to play and drink beer.
@@KamasKirian716 What irritates me is the thought of the older generations taking it out as we put it in, then talking bad about us as if we ruined everything. It really chaps my hide.
Amen to that,... I'll be 49
I figured I’d make 28. Now I’m 58 and like WTF 😳
I'd have to say, as a Gen Xer, growing up in the South, there was always & constantly the looming threat of "The Lord's coming any day now"
I know what you mean! Thanks for taking the time to comment, I really appreciate it!
As a gen xer from the UK who spent most of their childhood in Germany as an army brat, I was always being reminded that when the bombs dropped, I 'd be first to die. It's one of my first memories.
Add to that I watched my uncle die over 7 years of AIDS. I was very young when I heard an adult say soon everyone is going to have AIDS. That scarred me. I was in my 20s, a decade after my peers before I became sexually active. I wonder how many of our generation watched people die of AIDS.
tell him to bring his own beer, his own girl and his own pot :D
Yeah, that was a tough time for a lot of people. Thanks for joining the discussion and for your insightful comments.
That was my dad back in the 1970's and in the 80's it was a lot of Nostradamus movies playing in our house on VHS and in the early 90's while in the military I thought we were in the very end times back then. The joke's on me as 45+ years later here we still are, but a thousand years to us is like one day to God.
All the generations speak the same language, but Gen-X is the only one that actually understands it.
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@TwisterTornado Nope. Obviously, that one went way over your head, and the only thing you have to blame us for is laying down a nice, cushy, easy path for you. If I had to guess, you're "self-made" aren't you? You got the 10-year-old GMC Sierra with H/D window stickers because you don't actually own a motorcycle, all so you can boss people around at the local cement plant because you're in charge of a 3-person crew. What else you got, Napoleon?
@@TwisterTornado And what's your point, junior?
@TwisterTornado Yeah, you did. You read the whole thing three times while looking at yourself in the mirror, patting yourself on the back, and reminding yourself that none of those other big, bad generations can spoil the Millennials' party.
@TwisterTornado I didn't read yours, either. I guess I'm just slow enough to keep up with you.
I remember when we were the cool, mysterious generation. No one seemed to understand us. Most of our parents ignored us, and now, oddly enough, we've become the forgotten generation.
From what I see online, we're still the cool mysterious generation. Everyone tries to copy us. Look at the movies. Everyone pretty much recognizes that we're the toughest and most badass generation right now. I started this channel because of what others were saying about us. 🤘😎 Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I totally appreciate it!
I prefer intentionally invisible, but of course can be seen with a pair of kaleidoscope spy glasses. Anyone remember writing invisible notes with lemon juice that could only be read by holding the letter close but not too close to a candle flame or after ironing it. By fourth grade we all had burn scars from irons and grease splatters.
@@lisad6106 Yeah, I remember that! I never understood people who drive loud cars or anything that draws attention like that. Like they want to be pulled over. 🤣 I'd want KIT from Knight Rider, super quiet.
Yes, you think highly of yourselves. Too bad you are NOTHING and dumb as rocks as regards real-life skills, investing correctly, showing respect to others, sustainable social values, on and on and on 😂😂
…really good comment
Don’t forget acid rain, Chernobyl, New Jersey 3 mile island.
And the African Killer Bees! There are quite a few that I forgot to mention. lol I have been reminded here in the comments by my awesome Gen-Xers. Thanks for watching and taking the time to respond. I really appreciate it!
I don't think anyone ever _really_ survives New Jersey.
3 mile is in Pennsylvania,
Chernobyl. Who could forget 30 years of sheep marked in orange. Every time I saw them I thought about how hard it rained and how we were soaked to our underpants, and then saw the news when we got home. I met a number of kids from Chernobyl. The land of orange-dyed (contaminated) sheep was their respite.
@@eh1702 Yes, that was a major event that I should have mentioned. I do remember the orange marked sheep. Thanks for watching and taking the time to respond. I appreciate it!
I still want my damn flying car!!!!
Me too! 😂 Ray guns too! Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I truly appreciate it!
The Jettsons was a psyop 😆
No hoverboards either…
@@planetdisco4821 Yeah, I just watched Back To The Future 2, and I was thinking that exact same thing.
I would too. And then I think many folks don’t even know how to drive with any sense. The thought of them flying overhead is fucking mental.
Them: "But this time it's for REAL! Why don't you understand?!?"
Me: **sigh**
Exactly! 🤣👍🤣 Why won't you listen?!? Why won't you caaaare?!? LMAO Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it!
Truly underrated comment. 😂
@@peteschaub7561 agreed 👍
Ohhh the reactions my wife and I got when the whole covid thing had everyone running around into there little holes. My wife and I thought it was ridiculous. We did not fear much. We tried to go about as normal but got the flack at every turn. My wife told a young millennial neighbor that we are not too worried. Don;t need mask or all that other crap. The millennial's eyes widened. Then my wife said, if we die, be sure to stop by the funeral. This lady's jaw dropped. She never talk to us again. My dad, a boomer, who whole heartily got sucked into the hysteria ( granted he was higher risk) visited us ,and asked if we are getting the jab. I just mumbled something like, we're not doing that crap. He straight away said, oh, you're the enemy. I tell you - boomers, millennial, even gen Z, they love this drama.
@@an80skid71 Yeah, and it's surprising that Boomers fall for that crap. They're old enough to know better. Granted, their age put them in a risk group, but they helped push the hysteria beyond common sense.
We don’t care about the drama! We just want to live and enjoy the life that is in the now not constantly worrying about stuff.
Nicely said. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it.
That's not REALITY. Every generation has to worry about "stuff" - those who don't PERISH.
My silent era parents always said “children are to be seen and not heard.” I had no voice and no one to listen when I did have one my entire life, even today.
A sad fact about our generation.
.. and the "Energy Crisis". They told us we were all running out of oil, and had only a little bit left.
Yep, I remember that one too. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it!
Indeed. Survived the 55 mph speed limit that was imposed for what seemed like an eternity.
@@brendafisher7722 barely survived
And water
We also were taught the horrors of communism. Now it's talked about, like it's a soft cuddly bear...
Yeah, I don't know how people can embrace those ideas. We have the Internet now, they can just look it up. Blows my mind to hear people promoting Socialism and Communism in the USA. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it!
Wow! You actually don't realize that what we were taught was propaganda? I'm not claiming it's a cuddly bear, but there is some equivalency between how the propaganda of the cold war and the war on drugs was not truthful.
@@donaldbraucher9885 It's only socialists/communists who act like it was just propaganda. the world proves you wrong. capitalism is the only good economic approach that benefits the people. I come from a former socialist country (East Germany) and all they did was cruel and propaganda. You think socialism is a good idea, then go in such a country to live and see for yourself what it does to you.
We were taught to hate Communist in school, last generation to serve in the military during the cold war , last to do duck and cover.
@@timkincade9763 Yeah, you're right about all of that 👍
“We’ll all be using the metric system by 1980.”
And remember when the Emergency Broadcast System used to do the Tone BEFORE telling us “This is a TEST…”? Countless times I remember driving and praying “PLEASE let this be a TEST!”. If it wasn’t, we were conditioned to know that we had about 30 minutes.
Combine that with “the coming Ice Age” after being snowed in for a week after the blizzard of 78.
After making it to adulthood, don’t expect our generation to participate in the panic-pôrn of “Climate Change”.
We have no more F___s to give. Shaming me for driving a gas guzzler ain’t gonna work.
Exactly! I think that's how we all feel. We've seen it all and it's just one dud scare after another. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it.
Love this! At 44 - I’m end of Gen X born in 1980 - I finally f*cking made it financially - I got the biggest SUV - Expedition Max. It’s fits the kids and all our crap and if we get in an accident - we will be a little safer. I don’t give any f*cks how much gas it’s guzzling. 😂
@@rawbarbie Be proud of your missing f*cks, they were useless anyway. 🤣 I'm always happy to hear from like minded people. I hope you are enjoying the channel. Thanks for taking the time to comment. I appreciate it!
@@NhamshahSpah-ky-id6jo panic-porn is a great term for that
May be late to the party here, but Gen X and I think we cared too much and we learned no one else cared so we learned not to care so we didn’t get hurt. 🤷♀️
Very interesting take on the process. It could have very well evolved that way. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I am truly grateful!
Born in 1968- I was 33 at 13 years old …….and kinda stayed 33. That’s the best way I can describe my gen x experience
Yeah, I know what you mean. 🤘😎
I'm a 68 baby, too! Watching old news reels from back then makes me feel ancient. So much has happened in our life span.
@barbaramatthews4735 How the world has changed in such a short period of time!
Once you've internalised, that Death is the only promise we are given at birth, nothing really matters, it's all just petty B.S.
Exactly. I completely agree. Sometimes it just seems like we're staying alive until we get to see what's next. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I truly appreciate it!
Being gen x is like at a young age know you are going to die and you dont give a fuck
🤔oO(No one ever told me I was going to die.)
I would say that as a group gen-X has made it our mission to be individuals and independent from groups. That as a whole makes us a group of adults who don't back down from the oddities of the world. It's all a funny game to us now..life is entertainment. So the crazier it gets the more we kind of like it.
Thank you for the insightful comments. I appreciate you taking the time to respond and thanks for watching!
Popcorn is my spirit food lately.
To your OWN Doom. Because you aren't serious people but rather cynical quitters.
My kid asked me what my favorite drug was when I was growing up. I told him right quick. Adrenaline.
@@tanktop25 What you're actually describing is that you're a DELUSIONAL generation unable to adjust to reality and adapt to change or to overcome obstacles. Very sad generation.
Acid Rain was another terror we had to fear.
It sure was, and don't forget about the African Killer Bees! 🤣 We've heard it all huh? Thank you for watching and for taking the time to comment. I seriously appreciate it!
1983 we came close a few times if y'all remember. That year was my 6th Grade year and if you could go back in time and wander the hallways between classes, you wouldn't hear talk about movies, sports, or the opposite sex, no. What you'd hear being talked about a lot of the time: Nuclear Disarmament.
Especially when the movie The Day After Tomorrow aired on TV in the fall of 1983. This and many other reasons are why - when we heard the Berlin Wall was coming down - many of us wept, and a lot of us cried. Even as a HS senior at a huge house party when people heard the news they were either wyping tears or standing in silence. After 20 minutes of hugs and tears, the music came back and it was a way better party after that!
We were so hopeful for the future. I will never forget those 10 years between 1980 and 1990.
Awesome times. I remember when that wall came down. The news reels of people taking chunks of it. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it!
There was also the movie " weeds" as well.
"Amerika" to go along with "Red Dawn"
"It's the end of the world as we know it.. and I feel fine." - Michael Stipe/R.E.M.
That should be Gen-X's theme song. 🤘😎 Thanks for watching and commenting. I appreciate it!
One thing though: we weren't raised in the toxic soup of the Internet and current social media lunacy, where everyone is living up in everyone-else's ass, metaphorically-speaking. The immediacy of the 'meta-crisis' is now in everyone's face, and that's putting a dark twist on _all_ generations, but especially the youth, as this hyper-connected techno-dystopia lurches-on towards the abyss.
Interesting viewpoint. Thank you for watching and for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it.
It's not that we don't care. We care a lot. But we also know we can't change anything that happens, so if something catastrophic ever does happen, we'll do our best to survive. Great video. Love your channel!
Yeah, I have to agree. We do care a lot, it just seems that way to others. Great insight, thanks for the response. I appreciate it.
Exactly. We care. We just genuinely expect the worst.
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While we would not cry over spill milk, we would definitely not be millennials or Gen Z.
WE CARE A LOT!!!
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We learned from a very early age that our feelings and opinions only matter to us as individuals. Everything else is debatable but no one had time to care about feelings.
Insulting each other was a pass time, it was for fun, No one cared about what someone called us, we just had a bag full of comebacks to any insult to throw back. Something very much lacking in today's society.
You said that right 👍 The insults flew both ways and it was all for fun. The best friends insulted each other the most. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it!
Born in ‘74. I agree with your insights. We were fed more catastrophic events in our lives- real and fake -than we had the capacity to respond to. Compound this reality with half of us witnessing our parents divorcing. I think we Gen Xers grew up
with a lot less delusions concerning the “American Dream” or the delusion that life was going to be easy. Further, we grew up with a “high tolerance” for pain and disappointment. Finally, we knew were weren’t “special”, we expected to have to push our way through.
Add independence and resilience to that excellent list and you have the makings for a book. Great comment 👍 Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I sincerely appreciate it!
We care about the world, but we do not care about things the world demands of us.
A very good insight into our generation. We do actually care but it seems like we don't to others because we're not scared to death of every apocalypse emergency the throw at us. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I appreciate it!
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The most important phrase you said here was, "We learned". In some way we were still connected to our fathers and grandfathers past, we learned from their movies, their music and their TV shows.
Very true. Thank you for the interesting comment, I really appreciate it and I am glad you liked the video.
Yes, there is an affinity and appreciation for WWII and the Great Depression in our generation. Probably because our grandparents were from that generation. Indoor plumbing, electricity, modern antibiotics, and tractors were new then and costly. I have photos of my grandmother's family still using horses to plow fields in the '30. Or the root cellar under the house, packed with stray, where the winter ice cut from the lakes/rivers was stored so they had ice through the summer. But these things are too abstract for the kids these days to really understand.
@@KamasKirian716 Your completely correct. I remember that stuff too. Stories about the Depression and the old cars when they just started becoming popular. Kids today are disconnected from the past because society has changed so much due to technology.
Hell yeah we dont care - leave us all alone lol
1971 Gen Xer here 🤟
Glad to see you here! Thanks for watching the video and taking the time to comment. I appreciate it!
@@GenXThinks GenXers need to stick together lol
1972 . We lived through alot of change and still has no effect on us and still want to be left alone. The sky is falling and don't give a shit
@@timkincade9763 lol, EXACTLY!!!!
@@chriskirsten8221 My nephew is a 1975 Gen X er. He's an idiot too.
It’s not that we don’t care we’re burned out. A lot of us went through our parents divorces and remarriages and came home and raised our siblings while our parents had their midlife crisis’. Everyone I know who’s my age has been working since they could walk and a lot of us are raising grandchildren along with our parents.
You are totally correct. You hit the nail on the head. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I sincerely appreciate it!
I was born in 1972, and was a hard-core punker in high school in a small country town in state of New Mexico. My hair stood up in all directions. I wore a painted and spiked leather jacket and combat boots. Talk about independence and defiance. I carry those traits to this day. I see how increasingly dependent and indoctrinated our society is becoming with each passing year and generation.
I see it too, and I honestly feel bad for these kids. We were very independent and resourceful. It's a great feeling to be that way. No wonder why the younger people have self esteem issues, the victim mentality isn't good for building strength and character. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it!
@GenXThinks Thank you for reading my comment and replying. Thanks, and keep up the great work with your channel.
@@livingartdesigns06 You're very welcome. I honestly enjoy swapping thoughts and ideas with my fellow Gen-Xers. Thanks again for watching and spending your time to comment. I'm truly grateful.
I see it too….I made damn sure mine THINKS for themselves…Too many have zero idea what true INDEPENDENCE really is…
I have helped raise four children. Seeing what a dysfunctional society they will inherent, has compelled me to learn everything I can to understand the hows, the whys and the lies, so that I can guide them as best as I can. Unfortunately, even a parent with the best of intentions, is up against a society bent on self destruction that will not end well for anyone.
I'm afraid that I must agree with you. I don't like the direction our society is headed, but I hope I'm ready for it. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it!
I was told recently that I don’t care about anything. I didn’t realize it’s a generational thing. I grew up one of five children. We were poor & our mother was an alcoholic. I had to grow up pretty fast & learn how to survive. I never cared cause no one around me seemed to care. Now that I’m older I only care about making my money & going home. Everything else is just bs.
I grew up the same way except I had an alcoholic father. I can totally relate. 👍
One of my favorite movies ever is Reality Bites. I was the same age as the stars of the movie., and it stuck home. The cynical attitude as we realize our parents done raised us. You're an adult figure it out...kid
We didn't see opportunity back then. A generic degree gets you a generic job. There are thousands of new graduates looking for work. You might as well just work at the Gap.
A lot of us grew up with only one parent working. That one job provided for a family. A lot of women chose to work and that's great. But then child care went through the roof. That child care usually ate up one of the couples income. Everything seemed to increase in price in the '80s. Both parents working became a necessity. That lead to less children being free range. The latchkey.
We became numb. We became detached. We all had a burden of fear installed by the government and by our parents.
But we had MTV.
Well said! 👍🤣🤘😎
GenX here, too many people today fight on the 'behalf' of other people or groups. GenX just minds our own business and gets on with life. Plus we had thick skin, and the current young generations are afraid of everything and thinks everything is a micro aggression 😅
You said that right! 👍. Microagression, what a crock of whiny crap. 🤣 I can't believe that people would choose to be that way on purpose. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it!
You can only scare people so much, eventually you welcome such an apocalypse to rectify the stupidity
Reset and start over. Thanks for watching and commenting. I appreciate it!
76 here....love my fellow Gen Xers.
The other generations know that we rule! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment, I sincerely appreciate it.
Yeah, I have a nephew your age. He's a total little arrogant punk loser 😂
You forgot in the mid 80s we were all going to die of AIDS.
Yeah, I made a sequel video and mentioned it. There were quite a few that I missed. 👍
We care too much, I think. What's frustrating is seeing others care too little.
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I think after being let down so many times, then we get to the point we don’t care lol, because caring changes nothing… just hurts us… so ya, we look after ourselves, and our kids, and screw the rest.
@@GenxJul I agree 👍 We care about certain things that actually matter, but we can't find any feeling for the next big global emergency. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it!
..we inherited the ideals of the 60’s Woodstock counter culture which the boomers sold-out for$$$…gen x were the real hippies..poets,artists,muso’s…non-joiners…anti-establi$hment cynics
In one very simple sentence I’ve learned how to sum up our Gen X lives .
WE GOT USED ‼️
We are still getting used to pay into a SS fund that we won't ever be able to use. The Boomers are depleting it as soon as we put it in. It's a sad fact. You just have to laugh. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it!
@@therooster6104 🤣 Muuuaaahhh...
…the boomers AND the …silent gen..parents of X’rs are just living too f’ing long.Know when to leave…
I just turned 50 in mid September 2024 (it appears that makes me in the Gen X box) never married, no kids and no, I don't care about anything else except making it to the end of whatever time I have left on this planet with not marrying, not having kids and just doing what I have to in order to survive and try and fit a little fun here and there.
After graduating high school in the early 90's and going to community college and university throughout the rest of the 90's, and various jobs I had, it was made incrementally clear that men's roles in this society are at best looked at as a necessary evil.
What man wants to pull himself out of bed and be "traditional" when half of the population doesn't want anything to do with you unless you are and "A Lister," something very close, OR you are a prison guerilla muscled out with tattoos and an elephant tool? Being a hero is NOT in the cards for most men and Gen X feemails (misspelled to avoid deletion, not to be funny) at this point are well past "the wall" and have loads of baggage that their male counterparts do not have and would not be able to build a life together just based three decades of different dynamics even if they were the same paths
MOST Gen X's someone said in another video do NOT own a home, don't have sufficient savings, and have way more debt than they should have. Yes, a lot of that can be attributed to personal nonsense choices but compounded with that is 95% of other Gen X people who I know have not had the same purchasing power in the last 30 years their parents had to acquire a home and/or manage income to consistently set aside for savings. I thank God that I do not have a single penny worth of debt of any kind whatsoever, no credit card, student, medical, lawsuit, an God knows what else.
In conclusion, the combination of politics, society, economics, employment, urbans stresses, and ghendhar dienamicks (misspelled to avoid deletion, not to be funny) all seem to in this odd way expertly keep people locked into a mindset of just do what you can and nothing more because so many others don't care anyways.
Very interesting and well said. There are so many factors that go into societal behavior, but people are always quick to blame it on one particular thing. The truth is usually much more complex, as you have pointed out here. Thank you for watching and for taking the time to comment. I genuinely appreciate it!
Gen X here as well. I’m 56 and I just don’t care anymore. Information overload and yet no one seems to be able to use it for good. I see young people at work locked to their phones all day long with no eye on the future. Our parents didn’t listen to us and these younger people don’t listen to us either. I’ve got a big bag of whatever just for them.
Doesn't seem to be any reason to care about a society that doesn't care about us.
After what ive been through i honestly cant find it in me to care.
Yeah, sometimes I think that a post apocalyptic world would be better. I try not to stay in that place in my head though. Thanks for watching the video and taking the time to respond. I truly appreciate it.
@@GenXThinksthe good thing here is it could happen and we still wouldn't care. All we would say is I told you so and get in with our lives
Don't forget about the challenger explosion we watched on TV at school. If you grew up in the Midwest, we also had tornado drills at school, which we have survived several of them, and still do. I've also been an earthquakes a few times in the Midwest, and in California. I am Gen X, 1971.
I remember watching the Challenger explosion in science class. Tornadoes are crazy. We have hurricanes down here, but they don't hold a candle to the sheer destructive force of a twister. I remember doing the drills where we had to hide under our desk. Thanks for reminding me of the things I missed and for watching. I truly appreciate you taking the time to comment as well.
Yeah, that was special because at least in my HS it spilled over into multiple traumas: rumor was going around that the Russians blew it up and not only were there 7 dead astronauts blown apart IFO thousands of school children watching live, but we had about 30min to live because the birds were in the air.
Good times.
I only have one question… when will Gen X finally get to have a hover board 😮
Yeah! It's starting to look like flying cars will never show up, so tossing us some hoverboards is the least they could do. Thanks for watching and commenting. I appreciate it!
I was born in 84, I never used sunscreen, When I was 5, I had heat exhaustion, and I just played it off like nothing was wrong.
We didn't worry about the sun. I got sunburned all the time, and nothing ever bad came from it. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it!
I grew up an an Air Force base in Germany with the Berlin Wall up. Soldiers yelling at each other in French, German and English every day on my walk to school.
No one cared, latchkey kids unite!!!Parents ignored me for 3 days BOTH times I broke major bones, I'm not talking fingers or toes.
Post apocalyptic movies on Tubi are the best! 😂 so bad they're good ❤
Yeah, I love Tubi! 😄
Trauma causes people to be calm in a crissis. I think that's one thing that goes on for Gen X. Another is that we knew there was going to be an awful event every day of our life. We took our fun when we could and we had a lot of fun between those devastating events. It means that we've been trained to associate one with the other. If life is shit, it's also going to have an amazing place to escape to.
Wise words 👍
I remember the drills about ducking under the desk in case of a nuclear bomb. Like that would help. I said to my teacher if a bomb goes off the desk isn't going to save us. They said it would protect us from flying glass from the windows breaking..... They missed the point.
Yeah, I remember that too. It seemed pointless, even as a kid. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it!
78 vintage here. I asked my parents about the bomb drills and the book thing. They were like, "yeah, we don't really know either and don't care about the Cold War". BUT this is Texas, at least ya'll go to the locker area for that drill, in case of a tornado". My childhood home was new, but it came with an older tornado bunker. It cost 35K then. Now it's been redone and sold for 150k, AND they just removed the storm/bomb shelter. They just built a carport over it, when it already had a garage. We do get huge hail, I wouldn't trust that silly carport.
I used to think we had to do it to make our bodies easier to identify not ever thinking about who'd be left to identify us😂 We had literal bomb scares too where we had to evacuate to the field while the school was searched. NBD🤷♀️
@@AF_1892 Neither would I. I'd have kept the shelter in case of any number of emergencies. 👍
@@lisad6106 🤣🤣🤣 We never had bomb scares, we had to pull the fire alarm. 🤣 I mean, some other kids did stuff like that...
We grew up treated like we were a nuisance by our parents, we all got the "children are meant to be seen not heard" from a parent if we dare interrupt them while one the phone reading or when the were speaking to an adult, we didn't dare defy or argue with our parents outta fear and all were told when your 18 we we're expected to get out , you fell down and hurt yourself no one kisses it better, you were told stop being a baby get up and shake it off ,so we did, even when you probably needed stitches no one was taking you to the doctor for several hours until they realize the bleeding wouldn't stop on it own , if you had a learning disability you were label dumb not by your friends by the school and your parents that decided because they knew you were smart then you must be lazy, No one cared about us so that's definitely part of it, I agree with the impending doom ,was talk to my golden generation dad he says to me I've no idea what it was like growing up with the threat of nuclear war like him , there were no missiles that could cross an ocean back in the 40s 50s , for us they could plant them at your doorstep 😂 ,but that's what our mostly boomer parents did belittled all our experiences , my dad would complain how far he had to walk to get the bus to goto school years later he showed me his childhood home , I walked 4x the distance to my school no bus in the winter ,but the thing I'd say my is why I don't care is I've watched everything we changed for the better in this world, like being friends with who ever lived in your neighborhood, without ever considering what race , ethnicity, or religion and well just look at North America now everyone hating on each other , you can't even hang out with your friends of a different race without someone making a comment like it's wrong.
Yes, I definitely agree with you. We got some things right, and at least began to make the world a better place, but even that has been taken from us. Thanks for watching and commenting. I truly appreciate your time!
@@GenXThinks great channel btw , found you'd video randomly but definitely dropping you a sub
@@lokimonsterAq3d Thank you, I really appreciate it!
We care about the things we can change. Everything else is someone else's problem.
I totally agree. 👍 Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I really appreciate it!
In my opinion there is alot of us that care about things, but the ones you mentioned I agree. I think we don't emotionally react to things all the time, so people think we don't care and mistake a big emotional display and over reacting to things as not caring.
Exactly 👍 We care about things that actually matter.
Gen-Xer (born 1971) This man is speaking the truth. The whole life of threats of apocalypse every day and raised to think and do for ourselves and not expect handouts. I raised my boys to be the same way.
Thanks for the vote of confidence and for raising kids who have heads on their shoulders. They will be valued by their community one day. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I truly appreciate it!
My younger coworkers were stressing about Putin and Un officially saying they are country buddies. I just shrugged and rolled my eyes. They tried to convince me of their concern and told me I didn't understand what that meant... I totally understood what it COULD mean... but I am no longer going to put my life on hold and get all stressed out about something I can't control.
Exactly! 👍 That's why they think we don't care about anything, because we don't care about their latest cataclysm. Thanks for watching and taking the time to respond. I sincerely appreciate it!
What people don't get about us. It's that "We don't care" is not the same as "We don't overreact" or "We aren't driven by our emotions".
I think we lean more towards the second option. Today all I see around me is people "reacting" instead of "acting". And "acting" can be "Noticing but don't make a drama out of it".
We see, we care but what's the point to generate stress and misery with emotions that won't resolve the problem in any way ?
We care but only about the things we have the power and will to change. For the rest, we accept it..even if we don't agree with.
You are absolutely right. I started making these videos because I was reading stuff online about how other generations are mad because we don't care. We all know that we do care, saying we don't is meant to be a thumb in the eye of the media and Boomer politicians who have lied to us about so much over the years. Thanks for watching and for your insightful comments. I truly appreciate it!
@@GenXThinks Thanks to you ! I just subscribed ;)
The line "how other generations are mad because we don't care" is the perfect example ! Generations past Gen X are "mad"...
I just want to say "well buddy it's your problem if you're mad, I'm not responsible of your emotions"
We got to be teens and found out that we could die from sex because of aids. What a freaking bummer
Yeah it was 👍
Yep right when people had been properly liberated from the old fashioned restrictions. I mean, it was probably Gen X who really took it that extra mile 😂
I remember being told that we’re going to have acid rain that would kill everything
Yes, I should have mentioned that one. Acid Rain actually scared me the most as a kid. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it!
We also had parents and grandparents who saw and survived multiple wars and teachers who actually taught us some history. So, we all knew from an early age that this end-of-the-world song and dance had been going on for a long time.
Yes, you're right about that. 👍
We went to school and were punished with the belt or ruler for just being loud, lol. I member the entire class in grades 1 and 2 and getting the strap to behave. These last two generations never experienced that.
No they haven't, and it shows. Some things that hurt us made us good people. Why they stopped corporal punishment I have no idea. No kid ever died from it that I know of. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it!
@GenXThinks I think it was because a few teachers abused it, not all but a bad apple in the barrel ruined it
@@nonasmith2405 You're probably right. I never experienced that, but I can definitely see it happening.
1971 here and that doesn't sound like my experience. I remember one after school show about a family sheltering after a nuclear explosion but I don't remember being inundated with that stuff. Movies like Mad Max may have been popular but were just not in my genre of movies that I would want to go watch. I There was a family that I babysat for who was fastidious about sunscreen but they were the exception and not the rule. I wish I were fastidious about sunscreen myself back then since it can really slow down photo aging.
Not all of us remember those days the same way. 🤘😎
@@GenXThinks true we're all different and current events isn't on everybody's radar to the same degree !
@celestialcircledance You're absolutely right about that! 👍
Because we grew-up being instructed by '50's principles ,in the '70's. Grounded, we snuck around ,but nothing approaching this...these people are 'rudderless'. I shudder to think of the reaction of some of my mentors....Pray for these people. Really. 🙏
I agree. They are lost and most of them don't even know it. Thank you for watching and for commenting. I appreciate your time!
We are the "whatever it takes" generation. We are successful because we do whatever it takes to make it happen!!! And we were usually on our own to make it happen. Wouldn't change a thing, it has made me the man that I am.
I totally agree 💯 It was hard at times, but it made me who I am. 👍
Maximum Overdrive scared the heck out of me. There was a video on MTV by Mike & the Mechanics called Silent Running. That's a classic but very creepy & apocalyptic.
We have so many examples of the media shaping our culture. 👍
Lord of the flies was our blueprint of life
Yeah it was. The feral generation lol. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it!
Remeber a sports teacher jelling after someone broke her leg: "Stop whining! Its just s flesh wound!" .... or in biology: 30 degree celsius are 30 degree celsius, and no one cares about your subjective feelings with that!" Daily life was so rude.... but we knew what humorous sarcasm was.... today no one understands that anymore.
It's a lost art form all right 👍
I DO care...I just don't care about YOU.
👍 Most Gen-Xers would agree with you I think. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. I appreciate it!
We don’t care because nobody gave us $h!t. Whatever we wanted, we went out and earned it. Not all but most of us. Stay strong. 1971
Gen-X Rules!!! 🤘😎
The problem everyone has with us is that we’re not weak we tell you what you’re problem is whether you wanna hear it or not and we don’t sugar coat anything and everything we have we worked for unlike the other generations. Need I really go on.
Nope, nuff said 👍
It turns out we find ourselves needing to know the plural of apocalypse
Apocalypsi?
Because the only attention we received was negative so we go about our business without attracting attention. We do care just not about what you think we should care about.
I totally agree. Because we don't care about what they care about, they act like we're defined by apathy. Good point 👍 Thanks for watching and commenting. I sincerely appreciate it!
Remember "The Satanic Panic" of the 80s? 🤣 And how if you played records backwards Satan would show up? And all the churches losing their minds over every little thing?
Yeah, I sure do. It's one of the many things that I should have added in the video. Remember the African Killer Bees? LOL I have a great bunch of Gen-Xers reminding me of all the phony scares they tried on us. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment. I truly appreciate it!
Haha, and don't even THINK about playing Dungeons and Dragons, you devil worshipers!
You quickly learned you were on your own and there was nobody there to help and you had to help yourself. You disposed of little feelings and useless details to accomplish tasks. This made you fast and reliable with excellent problem solving skills. In comparison, we feel that everybody else is standing there crying over a cup of spilled milk. After something happens, taking a time out to reflect on it, doesn't fix it. Mop it up and move on because that is ultimately what you will have to do anyway. Six cups of spilled milk equals six timeouts and six times the sadness for most. Gen X will just bring a blanket instead of a mop, soak it up and toss it in the washing machine. Waste your own time and cry in a corner at home if you like. It's still a waste of time, the most important thing you have in life.
Absolute truth 👍
Gen X will never retire OR surrender. We are the FREEST generation ever and one of the most self sufficient. We understand in our bones that it's "better to burn out than fade away!"
Hail yeah! We don't need no water! I know that I value freedom above all else, and I'm sure that most of my fellow Gen-Xers feel the same. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I sincerely appreciate it!
GenX some of my favorite people! Work hard play hard salt of the earth people. I'm last of the boomers but much more in common with X. They definitely care, but don't tell them what to think!
Gen-X is a mindset more than a date on the calendar in my opinion. It's fun to toss out dates and talk about hose water, but I think that a lot of people can relate who were born just before and after the listed dates. Thank you so much for watching and for taking the time to comment. I really do appreciate it!
I agree the fear mongering doesnt work that well on us, maybe because we had to interact in person with people including bullies, you either needed to fight or be a doormat. Even if you lost they would repect it and leave you alone.
True. The anonymity and physical distance of the Internet era have given rise to a lot of character changes, not all of them good. Thank you for watching and for taking the time to respond. I sincerely appreciate it!
Gen X here…I’m just waiting for the giant meteor.
Yeah, they made movies about that one. lol I'm still waiting for the Acid Rain movie. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I truly appreciate it!
How did we survive. They scared us half to death with Jaws, Piranhas, Big Foot, Killer Bees, Devil Worshipers and crazed Chainsaw Dudes from Texas. I still laugh at the Ozone layer hole and other dumb shit. There’s a lot more !!! Growing up in 70’s/80’s….wow what a shit show. I still can’t stand the now growing old 60-70’s Hippie people and stupid Harleys. The young people today are Alien Morons. Yeah we just say F it all and laugh.
When I cared, life was much more difficult. Basically everything was already broken before we got here and the internet didn't help things at all. Apathy is the secret to a happy life.
Absolutely 💯
I'm 51 . I never look back because I'm always looking forward, to my next accomplishment, my next challenge or my next problem. I'm always trying to better myself at all cost . And I don't have time for cry babies.
It's probably due to the Internet but it seems like there are a lot of crybabies nowadays. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I truly appreciate it!
He's right about the litany of catastrophes drip fed to us throughout our development.
The opening minutes of the film "Pleasantville" (1998) includes a good example of this used to set the mood.
I'm going to have to check that out. I've never seen that movie. Thanks for the tip. Also thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I sincerely appreciate it!
I'm a Millennial and I don't care anymore either😅
Alright 👍 Welcome to the club. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I sincerely appreciate it!
We understand 😂
its definitely something i noticed like every time i see something weird or suspect they are like who cares .even things they should care about like when all their stuff breaks down they just ignore it
"things they should care about" that's the sticking point. We don't care about the things other people think we should care about. We have learned not to waste our emotional energy on things we cannot control, or may not be true. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate it!
Gen -X in the UK had to watch the BBC film Threads in school. Just so we could see that those who died when the bombs dropped would be the lucky ones. We were told daily that we had no future, pain and suffering was all we had to look forward to. It's no accident that admissions to universities shot up after the Berlin wall fell down.
It seems like propaganda and indoctrination, but I can't figure out the purpose.
I’m a 55 YO Aussie X’er. My great grandad was born in 1893 and died when I was 22 he taught me how to chop wood and set the fire in not only his wood burning stove in the kitchen (which he kept using until the very end) but also his hot water service in the bathroom. He was 11 years old when he and his dad went there separate ways at Station Pier, Port Melbourne to become what you yanks call lumberjacks in the mountains of Victoria. His daughter aka my Nana also made it to nearly 100 she was a tiny scarecrow of a woman who sewed up shoes in a factory her whole life and had hands that were as strong as eagles talons. Her husband died fighting the Japanese on the Kokoda trail in Papua New Guinea and as a child her home burned to the ground in the bushfires of the 1930’s where her Mum had managed to rescue the sewing machine and the curtains and made her a school uniform from them that night in the barn and sent her to school the very next day. My dad was a boilermaker who worked his arse off for his wife and kids and taught me how to hunt and fish. THESE ARE ALL THE PEOPLE THAT RAISED ME. And they were WISE.
Now I watch my much younger housemate raise her kid with an iPad and she wonders why I get pissed about it. So, Yeah I care, actually. But. It’s only useful to care if the young actually listen to the Wisdom of their Elders. Which they patently do not. And btw one of the things I quite like about getting old is I’m allowed to be grumpy.
Also back in the day we made some really frikn cool music too…lol
Yes, I totally agree. Back then we weren't influenced by people online. The values of society have radically changed in a relatively short time. Not only do you need to teach children today, but you must try to get them to unlearn the BS they've picked up online. It's not easy today. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to respond. I sincerely appreciate it!
@@GenXThinks no worries mate 👍