"At this moment, a whole lot of people, most of them 15 to 20 years younger than me, are protesting in every major city. What are they angry about? A lot of things, some of which are partially my fault.
See, I'm a part of Generation X, the post-Baby Boom era kids who grew up on a mental diet of Beavis and Butthead and Alice in Chains. We wrote poems about how angry we were at our fathers, wore goatees like weapons and made panties burst into flames by playing Pearl Jam's Black on our acoustic guitars. We were a bridge from the Baby Boomers to all you guys who are in high school and college now. And I'm pretty sure we fucked up that handoff pretty badly.
This is not a sarcastic apology, I'm not a big enough dick to write all of this as a backhanded insult about how lazy and entitled you are. Because you're not.
I'm honestly apologizing for ..."
I've honestly been doing whatever I can to avoid talking about Occupy Wall Street. I know that if I don't make a stand I can't complain if things don't go my way, but I just don't complain then. I also know that Cracked usually makes a mockery of whatever they can, mostly for sarcasm's sake, but linkthis article] was one of their more genuine pieces. Reading through it made me realize just how backwards some things were, and that a lot of the folks in my generation were destined for failure right off the bat. Well, maybe not destined for failure, but I'm not exactly getting a "set up for success" vibe from it either. What do you guys think?
See, I'm a part of Generation X, the post-Baby Boom era kids who grew up on a mental diet of Beavis and Butthead and Alice in Chains. We wrote poems about how angry we were at our fathers, wore goatees like weapons and made panties burst into flames by playing Pearl Jam's Black on our acoustic guitars. We were a bridge from the Baby Boomers to all you guys who are in high school and college now. And I'm pretty sure we fucked up that handoff pretty badly.
This is not a sarcastic apology, I'm not a big enough dick to write all of this as a backhanded insult about how lazy and entitled you are. Because you're not.
I'm honestly apologizing for ..."
I've honestly been doing whatever I can to avoid talking about Occupy Wall Street. I know that if I don't make a stand I can't complain if things don't go my way, but I just don't complain then. I also know that Cracked usually makes a mockery of whatever they can, mostly for sarcasm's sake, but linkthis article] was one of their more genuine pieces. Reading through it made me realize just how backwards some things were, and that a lot of the folks in my generation were destined for failure right off the bat. Well, maybe not destined for failure, but I'm not exactly getting a "set up for success" vibe from it either. What do you guys think?
