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As the Official Spokesperson for Gen X, I Have Shit To Say
Listen up if you’re a Boomer or Gen Y or Z
Yes, I appointed myself the official spokesperson of Gen X because somebody had to do it.
That’s a total Gen X move, by the way. We see that something needs to be done and we don’t ask; we just handle it.
Gen X got a raw deal.
My generation is the one that really got screwed by the digital transformation. We grew up without computers. Then, sometime in our early adulthood, everything changed all at once. Computers were everywhere. Everyone got cell phones and then smartphones. (Now they’re just phones because the old kind of phones barely exist.)
Our education didn’t prepare us for this.
And our brains matured very differently than the brains of Gen Y or Z.
Imagine being a hunter-gatherer who was kidnapped, brought into modern civilization and expected to teach yourself how to read and write. That’s almost what it was like.
I was here for this transformation, and it was kind of hard.
