I think every generation has myths it tells about itself. This is why older people are often upset that "Boomer" is now so frequently used a pejorative; it was the generation that famously said never to trust anyone over 30, and now they're the people folks under 30 definitively do not trust.
As someone coming right at the end of it, I do feel like Gen X has a lot of myths about itself that it tells and I am never entirely sure if it believes them or not.
As someone born "smack in the middle" of the Generation X cohort, we can't even admit to ourselves how terrible we are as a group. Like how at least half of us were die hard Reaganites before we could even vote.
Where the US (and the world) is today is as much on us as it is on Baby Boomers.
Everyone rebels. If your role models are hippies, you rebel by being conservative.
A weird number of people didn't understand that being a Republican was how poor Alex rebelled against Steven and Elyse. They just saw him as "odd man out" in the Keatons.
I always mention Alex in this GenX context. I had a cohort in HS who were Milton Friedman cultists. Punks goth etc rebelled against hippies in different ways, but we all rebelled against the hippie legacy and a LOT was Jocko Homo
