For the last ten years, the online culture war has pretty much been waged between Boomers and Millenials, skipping entirely over the cohort nestled right between them, Gen X. The 'MTV Generation', often viewed in popular culture from the late 70's to the mid 90's as slackers, lay-abouts, and nihilists, Gen Xers were disengaged from the realm of politics for a couple of reasons. Firstly, this is generation that grew up being told by everyone in both the political establishment and pop culture media that they lived under the threat of imminent nuclear doom and devastation thanks to the Cold War between the U.S. and Soviet Union. Secondly, this was the generation that began its childhood with huge, boxy computers that very few people could afford and operate, phones anchored to the walls, and pedophiles cruising playgrounds in panel vans offering candy, and ended their adolescence with a laptop in every bedroom, cell phones that could be carried around everywhere, and kiddie diddlers asking "a/s/l" over America Online Chat rooms.
A Brief Gen X Aside
A Brief Gen X Aside
A Brief Gen X Aside
For the last ten years, the online culture war has pretty much been waged between Boomers and Millenials, skipping entirely over the cohort nestled right between them, Gen X. The 'MTV Generation', often viewed in popular culture from the late 70's to the mid 90's as slackers, lay-abouts, and nihilists, Gen Xers were disengaged from the realm of politics for a couple of reasons. Firstly, this is generation that grew up being told by everyone in both the political establishment and pop culture media that they lived under the threat of imminent nuclear doom and devastation thanks to the Cold War between the U.S. and Soviet Union. Secondly, this was the generation that began its childhood with huge, boxy computers that very few people could afford and operate, phones anchored to the walls, and pedophiles cruising playgrounds in panel vans offering candy, and ended their adolescence with a laptop in every bedroom, cell phones that could be carried around everywhere, and kiddie diddlers asking "a/s/l" over America Online Chat rooms.