Neil Howe discusses Gen Xers for National Council of Teacher Retirement (Part 1) | 2004

[@fifthrider]

Gen X - The generation that was 30 by the time they were 10, and at 50 we're still 30. 💪

[@DBR96A]

"What matters is my performance, not my attitude." Yep, me in a nutshell (b. 1978).

[@TanyaJo]

DBR96A yep 1974 and we are the new grandparents.... let us show you how it’s done.

[@moreodat479]

@@TanyaJo what new grandparents plenty gen x´ers have small children

[@OldHeathen1963]

@@TanyaJo Yup. I had em young. 🙂

[@matthewatwood8641]

@@moreodat479 I started when I was 43. I got two girls seven and 10, and a 2-year-old boy. I believe in free-range parenting, and my goal is to have kids who are independent, think for themselves, and are internally motivated.

[@dandiacal]

I am a proud Gen Xer and will always be!

[@jaworskij]

That's right!

[@MrGloriousg]

Yeah, I was never much for the hive mentality.

[@DaveGarber1975]

It seems to me that generations like ours tend to produce bumper crops of great social scientists, political philosophers, and those who either champion human rights or trample them with impunity. And self-help gurus. Perhaps, because we statistically feel more socially detached than other generations, and tend to be more contemplative by nature, this makes it easier for us to develop keen objective insights into social relationships. As best as I can tell, unlike our moralistic elders who set the world on fire in their young adulthood, our generations tend to make their greatest contributions later in life, especially when political crisis eras come around. Or we might simply end up as grumpy sarcastic hecklers like Statler and Waldorf.

Generation X is the most evil loser generation of humans to ever live (besides their own children who were taught to be like that by their own Gen X parents)

[@wesrm1]

@ Whose fault is that?

[@1mouseman]

Generation X… We were the child parents of adult children 😂

[@cecilsalas8721]

When you're right, you're right !!! LOL

[@hollyh1969]

I was given some book about my period...in 1978 at age 8, gee thanks. Gen X always has to put out the fires from the last party we worked through.Still can't trust the "man".

[@mimicanada1957]

Hey millennial here, I’ll help you with the fires you’re not alone anymore Édit: spelling

[@mimicanada1957]

That’s super fucked up they just said here take this book ?? What are they thinking omg the amount of horror stories I’ve heard from gen x childhood is shocking!!!

[@wesrm1]

@@mimicanada1957 millennial teamwork

[@DaveGarber1975]

Yes, childhood is always the most formative period of our lives. I was born in 1975. The prevailing parenting style then was "free-range parenting," and my parents were no exception. I was grateful to grow up in a society in which segregation existed only in history books and racism was scarce. It was interesting coming-of-age in a placid atomistic intellectually-rich society with a glut of culture focusing on the dark/mysterious side of life. I grew up very independent but also rather lonely and hungry to connect. But I felt so alone so often, even surrounded by people, and I struggled horribly with anxiety and depression. It wasn't until the 2000s that I finally started to find the connectedness that I'd craved in my youth. Things are so much better now in that regard. But I worry about how growing societal conflict and "helicopter parenting" is affecting the rising generation. So opposite of how I was raised.

[@sparkytdg]

Holy shit. This guy is nails on.

[@matthewatwood8641]

"revolution is my name..."

[@1mouseman]

And I bet she wonders why you never call😂

[@EveryDooDarnDiddlyDay]

I hope your "4 boys" didn't turn out to be Marxist idiots and went to real colleges and not leftist indoctrination camps masquerading as colleges.

[@kleocatra9675]

Why work for 8 hours when I can get it done in 4 hrs.

[@thanto575]

Bad News Bears is another defacto X movie. Anyone else have to ride their banana seat bike ten miles to the 7 eleven for wacky stickers?

[@ty2010]

and a pack of cigarettes

[@nedparsons5668]

Ahhh, wacky packs! Planet of the Grapes!

[@Yankee_Redneck6698]

Yup.

[@msalign1124]

sorry, I don't talk American. But, similarly, in other than America, the sci-fi tv, Logan's Run, Sapphire and Steel, Blakes 7, paved our understanding and adaptability to technology.

[@Don-du7du]

Mad magazine 😝

[@rosealexander9007]

I'm a younger generation X Born in 77. I'm very cynical. I don't trust people at all.

[@alleycatalog]

74. Same here

[@terryrodbourn2793]

I was born in 69! I don't tend to think large groups make people dumb!

[@mrjohnfantastic]

"Just screw it." Perfect!

[@IrishOhionan]

Never trust a hippie. (b. 1975)

[@brianlongshore3105]

Raider19er never trust a bunch of liberal dumbasses who think they know something. Been reading history since the 70s, by the way genius most boomers ain't hippies anymore, and we're fighting those radical leftest democraps...get a clue junior!!!!!

[@moreodat479]

@@brianlongshore3105 " radical leftest democraps " are the best

[@jlddark]

We in Gen X had nothing given to us and were often told we were nothing special. Yet we outworked, outperformed, and will outlast everyone. It's wise to just leave us alone and not bother us or it's going to get ugly fast.

[@wesrm1]

Xers are the best at creating memes. It fits.

[@LoveandLightJason]

As a Gen X'er, ( born 1970 ) I could not agree with you more!!! Everything you said is 100% on point. Very well said sir!!!! We truly are the greatest generation!!! I learned how to cook at 5, raised my siser who was 3 years younger than her, rode my bike MILES from home. My mother never knew where I was. I just had to be home before the street lights came on. We simply raised ourselves!!! We are the I don't give a _uck what you think. Yeah, it's just a job. It means nothing other than a means to an end. Your opinion of US......MEANS NOTHING!!! We value our alone time, and its a must in our lives!!! So very well said!!!!

[@jaworskij]

Lots of the Disney Sunday movie stuff during the 1970s was like this ... they projected this image that "kids were bad. Kids were mischievous. You don't want that kid around." I had these messages, in addition to being neglected by Mom and phys. and verbally ABUSED by my Dad. So I got envious of the baby boomers (Yuppie Puppies) kids growing up in the mid-1980s and onwards. Those kids were SPOILED ROTTEN and appreciated by their parents and by culture... Disney Channel was created for them. Disney Sunday movies were directed (some) by Spielberg, etc... b. June 1966.

[@matthewatwood8641]

I never resented them. I was just glad I wasn't them. I never wanted to be coddled. I wanted the truth. I wanted what was real. Still do.

[@DOUG3610]

"...National Council of Teacher Retirement..." - Gen Xers aren't expecting any "retirement" on the backs of the taxpayers like these leeches...

[@vincentgarzoli3197]

A few additions to what has been stated in the video: 1) Career??? Should be plural, not singular! Growing up, we were told that we would likely have 3 or 4 careers, due to the changes in the marketplace and the (then) nascent, but increasing trend towards de-unionization, therefore, it was not a great leap for us to be skeptical about "committing" to an employer, when it was so obvious that there was no reciprocal commitment from the employer. 2) Social Security. I think I was probably 8 years old (1975) the first time I heard Social Security described as a Ponzi Scheme, and was told by adults not to expect the program to still be around by the time I reached retirement. The notion, correct or not, that we would spend our working life paying into Social Security so that our elders (especially the Boomers) would safely collect their retirement money, but we wouldn't see a dime, was deeply ingrained before we even entered the workforce. 3) Rivalry. I always found it peculiar how the Boomers always seemed to have it in for us, often without our dishing any invective back at them. Perhaps, that is why I (we?) try to avoid engaging in the same negativity toward Millenials and Zoomers. Understanding that my generation was not dealt the same deck as our predecessors made me a little more empathetic when it comes to those younger groups--That each generation becomes what it needs to be is absolutely dead on the money. Everybody navigates the world they are born into, and the solutions they come up with align with the problems they must face. Interesting that the Boomers continue to punch down, now at their kids and grandchildren, the way they did at their generational younger siblings and cousins (GenXers). 4) General Demographics. Why is it that Boomers used to be ascribed 20 birth years (1945-1965), but the younger generations have often only been accorded about 15 years (1965-1980 for Xers; 1980-1995 for Millenials; and 1995-2010 for Zoomers)? Granted, these generational birth years have become fungible of late, but it seems to me a small wonder that the Boomers were statistically the most populous generation...I would be curious to know how the population numbers compare if each group had the same number of birth years designated???

[@DianaDeLuna]

Bleah there's paint in my mouth from that broad brush that just swept over me. Born in 1970, but nothing was more important from my teens onward than seeking deep meaning in life. Ah, so that's why I felt so lonely in college.

[@alysiamerdavid-wasser9165]

i disagree w/ some of his points, (bc: of course i do, lol) esp. re: 9/11. We don't deserve a cookie for being alive and doing what needed to be done. The "Greatest Generation", our Grandparents, did the same thing after Pearl Harbor. Getting close to Memorial Day..Time to remember ALL who died so we could live. 💝

[@jasonblack4208]

Gen X is both the most based and the most mistreated generation ~middle wave millennial

[@mattd.4133]

Born in 1971 solid gen xer here and at no point in my life has any corporate piece of shit had a hold on me. Ive been my own free agent for over 40 years of working! Now i have my retirement job driving public transit buses. Its been a fun ride!!!

[@ptanyuh]

Thank you so very much for this video.

[@jjjj1352]

We'll pay no attention to you at all but you must be perfect and impress "them." Who are "them" by the way?

[@thomastyson787]

I was born on 3 -18-1969

[@NicholasDeLaat]

Every time someone falls for the static compartmentalization of society generations, I know that they truly don't understand the fluidity of life and society. There is no such thing as static "generations," there are only genetic generations within families. Hard to take people who reduces things to these nice neat compartments seriously.

[@Mastermind111111]

Born 1987 and I identify with a lot of this and probably moreso than millenials. My parents were around more, though allowed to wander, raised by TV and Nintendo but I also look to work for fulfillment and community, which I guess is more Millenial

[@HeIsNakedLunch]

I swear it was Chuck Palahniuk who coined the term #genx AND NOT that so and so name you dropped. All bets on the table!

[@Mastermind111111]

I consider gen x 1965 - 1990

[@cecilsalas8721]

👍👍👍

[@turdferguson1021]

It's all relative and general.

[@BassPlayerSusan]

Willy Wonka is an awesome movie!

[@TheSamLowry]

This was 20 years ago, and we're STILL waiting for Boomers to retire so we can take their jobs.

[@palaceofwisdom9448]

Birth control is what changed how people viewed children and parenting in the 60's. Women could leverage access to their bodies in a way that was impossible before and wanted to do so. Children are no longer their mom's only decent meal ticket, and are regarded accordingly.

[@paulradice3534]

October 1965

[@MoneyBooBoo]

the ending was great 🤣

[@chrisdecker1443]

B 1966... it's been a shit show since 1976.. 80's were great..

[@mimicanada1957]

Howe? What happens if my dad is a boomer and my mom gen x

[@bettnelson3]

Listen to your mom

[@cecilsalas8721]

@@bettnelson3 😂😂😂👍

[@UXtatic]

Man.

[@mendi452]

He said "Give them Judy Blume" and omg it's so true and I miss it so much 🥲

[@tekiwi]

GenX "F" yeahhh Lol

[@cecilsalas8721]

🤩🤪🤪🤪

[@bcx1138]

douchechillllll