What is Reddit's opinion of Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture?

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> Nah boomer are considered from 1945/6 to 1964/5 now.

Wrong. Look at the birth rate and fertility rate charts. The baby boom in the US started in 1939 and was over by 1958-59. Birth rates continuted to fall after that until the late 70s.

I don't give a shit how sociology teachers or wikipedia try to redefine the term, just because they fell for the recent meme that the baby boom started after WW2. They are wrong.

It started at the BEGINNING of WW2. The baby boomers were already having kids by the start of the 1960s, which is when Gen X REALLY starts.

And the term Generation X was being used by people born in the late 1950s-early 1960s to label themselves, for that matter, as early as mid 1970s. Billy Idol was born in 1955 and his band that formed in 1976 was called... Generation X.

The person above you is right. The oldest baby boomers are entering their 80s, and the youngest are aged early-mid 60s.

"Generation X:Tales for an Accelerated Culture," Douglas Coupland

"Pacific Edge: Three Californias (Three Californias, 3)", Kim Stanley Robinson

"Dharma Bums," Jack Kerouac (not written by GenXer but foundational)

"Old Man's War," John Scalzi (there are very few SF GenX writers and this is one of the best)

The term originated in a book by Douglas Copeland.

Coupland has said:

>The book's title came not from Billy Idol's band, as many supposed, but from the final chapter of a funny sociological book on American class structure titled Class, by Paul Fussell. In his final chapter, Fussell named an "X" category of people who wanted to hop off the merry-go-round of status, money, and social climbing that so often frames modern existence.”

I read it a long, long time ago. In the 90z. Heh.

https://www.amazon.com/Generation-X-Tales-Accelerated-Culture/dp/031205436X

It came from this book, here.

As for us - I remember we also started the funny, but horrible "media reference" trend. Watch a movie like Juno, anything from Seth Rogan or Seth Macfarlane, or the iconic "Reality Bites" with Winona Ryder and you'll get the gist of where memes came from.

It is even MORE horrible because if you watch Family Guy or even the Simpsons they use past media references constantly and I realized that some of them I only get because my mom and grandma showed us old movies and I studied history.

Now, they keep doing references from the last century and I am pretty sure anyone born after 2000 who doesn't directly study history or watch old movies and TV has NO idea what the hell is going on with all those takeway bits and flashbacks. It must be weird to watch those shows and not know what 75% of the jokes even mean.

Generation X had a defining book (Generation X), do Millennials have some manifesto like this?

What're kids from the 00' and 10's called?

Can confirm. Source: actually read this book. http://www.amazon.com/Generation-X-Tales-Accelerated-Culture/dp/031205436X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1441909739&sr=1-1&keywords=generation+x