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.
reagan v carter was my first election.
Back then, we had ~300,000 MILLIONAIRES in the country, which now number over 22,000,000.
Not to mention the 700 people who own +60% of the wealth today.
*Trickle down* certainly worked the way republicans intended.
