December 14th 2008

X Saves the World. How generation X got the shaft but can still keep everything from sucking. Jeff Gordinier

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X Saves the World. How generation X got the shaft but can still keep everything from sucking. Jeff Gordinier. 2008. ISBN 9780670018581. So the secret is out. With the election of a Gen X President Obama, it is time for the boomers to just get out of the way. Gen X has already brought sweeping changes, from Google, Craigslist, Youtube, Wikipedia, Tech billionaires, Nirvana, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and much more. While the world was not watching the slacker generation has been doing all the work. Gordinier does a good job with his subject and it does make an old boomer like myself take notice. In such a short book, he packs a lot in, and I confess to not even knowing much about what was important to this generation. Very interesting to me and to the Gen X ers of course

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One Response to: “X Saves the World. How generation X got the shaft but can still keep everything from sucking. Jeff Gordinier”

  1. Obama is not a GenXer. And anyway, I thought that Gordinier agreed with mainstream thinking that GenX starts in the mid-1960s. As many high profile journalists have said, Obama is part of Generation Jones, born 1954-1965, between the Boomers and Generation X. Google Generation Jones, and you’ll find that many top commentators from many top publications and networks (New York Times, Time magazine, NBC, Newsweek, ABC, etc.) are using that term now, and are specifically referring to Obama, born in 1961, as part of Generation Jones.

    CultureWatcher said on 14 Dec 2008 at 7:32 pm #

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