Generation X

February, 1994

Most generations acquire a label that sticks. The Fifties were named the Silent Generation for the cautious young people living through the political correctness of McCarthyism. The Sixties saw the flowering of the Woodstock Generation, an era of sex and drugs and Vietnam war protests. The Seventies were the Me Decade and the Eighties brought us yuppies and baby boomers from hell who believed that greed is good.Today, we have Generation X.X is the label we have pasted on the older youths of the...

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