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 imprinted so hard on gen x baby birds that to overcome it you had to have parents who *hated* him and also watch imports of Spitting Image on HBO or whatever.
That was the Evangelical Christians. The (Im)moral Majorityed by snake oil salesman Billy Graham convinced him that the queers had it coming.
The people who call in a genocide aren't far off.
It was the Reagans themselves who turned their back on Nancy’s friend Rock Hudson when he called begging them for help
It was very much the administration with Ronald Reagan as figurehead that laughed at the idea of a “gay disease”
Yeah and the Christians were the ones who told them they could score points that way. Sure they chose to believe it but let's not underestimate the extreme damage Christianity has done to the country here.
