Worst Personal Reflection on One's Generation Ever

[justgladtobehere]

https://harpers.org/archive/2023/09/my-generation/

I saw this cover story. On the cover it was "What happened to Gen X?" In the magazine the headline was "My Generation." It was a writer sniffing his own farts.

Opening: "I recall having breakfast in a hotel in Brussels in 2017 and sitting across from Douglas Coupland."

Later: "Then I went to New York for graduate school, and the Nineties were all about Morton Feldman and Pierre Schaeffer and other avant-garde opportunities for the display of marathon patience."

Really speaking for a generation.

 

[MisterCreosote]

It surprises me not at all that the author is a philosophy professor.

ship or get off the pot, dude.

 

[BTExpress]

What happened to Generation X was giving it and subsequent ones letter descriptions. Don't like car names that are simply a bunch of letters, either (MDX, RDX, TLX . . . ).

 

[maumann]

Well, my suggestion for Generation Man Bun died on the vine.

 

[Octave]

I didn't like Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke speaking for my generation either.

That film has aged horribly, btw.

 

[qtlaw]

"Greed is Good", Wall Street. Sorry folks, turns out we need to be a bit less focused on ourselves.

 

[MisterCreosote]

I didn't like Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke speaking for my generation either.

That film has aged horribly, btw.

These are the spokesmen for our generation:

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Dude writes about Gen X with a lot of music references without mentioning Prince, Madonna, Pearl Jam, Beastie Boys (or hip hop at all) or MTV. He gives one sentence to Kurt Cobain and Nirvana - the same as Morton Feldman, Pierre Schaffer and Theodor Adorno (who the fork are they!?!). Is this Jann Wenner's alt?

 

[MisterCreosote]

Dude writes about Gen X with a lot of music references without mentioning Prince, Madonna, Pearl Jam, Beastie Boys (or hip hop at all) or MTV. He gives one sentence to Kurt Cobain and Nirvana - the same as Morton Feldman, Pierre Schaffer and Theodor Adorno (who the fork are they!?!). Is this Jann Wenner's alt?

You mean you don't think Bowzer from Sha Na Na is a Generation X icon?

 

[Azrael]

Dude writes about Gen X with a lot of music references without mentioning Prince, Madonna, Pearl Jam, Beastie Boys (or hip hop at all) or MTV. He gives one sentence to Kurt Cobain and Nirvana - the same as Morton Feldman, Pierre Schaffer and Theodor Adorno (who the fork are they!?!). Is this Jann Wenner's alt?

adorno

feldman

schaeffer

too long too smart too slow

too white

and fails in the same dreary way every "my generation" essay fails

eh

 

[justgladtobehere]

My nomination for worst sentence:

My grievance against the millennials and younger is that they don't seem to know, or care, that for a brief moment in the mid-to-late twentieth century these forces seemed to be delivering on the long-held hope—a hope held ever since the Ranters began ranting and the Quakers began quaking and all kinds of utopians went and founded their communes and got naked and dreamt, with Charles Fourier, of someday being able to play the piano with our feet—the long-held hope, I was saying, for human liberation.

Sure kid.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Does anybody know if there is a way to search for pages that link to a another page? I think Google had that function, but it is gone. I want to see if this article is being linked.