#okboomer

“I killed Chin the Conqueror”

We contributed exactly SHIT to the world. Why? Probably because our Gen X older siblings were too busy crying about Mommy and Daddy's divorce to actually fucking teach us anything, but no, I'm not going to lay the blame solely at the feet of Gen-X'ers for this because after a certain age we all became accountable... boy did we become accountable.

We elected two of the worst Presidents of all time, why? The first time because it was the year 2000 and Daddy wouldn't pay for college if we dated to vote democrat, surprise the economy tanked and we had to get student loans anyway - how's Daddy's money now? Is it helping you pay off those student loans? No, but Daddy can say he's proud, right? Right.

Then 2016 rolled around and we realized that we were in our 30's and had our grown-up money and no longer had to depend on our parents but oh, we were too razzle-dazzled by a former reality TV host because when has reality TV ever steered us wrong and he was so good on The Apprentice we saw him run a business it'll be just like running a country, right?

We watched him run it alright, we watched him run it right into the motherfucking GROUND! And we did nothing to stand by and stop it, rather, we were too busy letting Dad, Grandad, and weird-ass Uncle Fred have his last say in our political matters because it couldn't be that bad, right? But it was, we put blinders on and refused to see the fact that we had a war for 20 years that went nowhere and still didn't get the result we wanted. (By the way, what result *was* that, exactly? I wasn't too clear. If you were aiming to get the terrorists - hello they still exist!) We had several economic collapses that's resulted in the majority of us either in student or medical debt up to our fucking eyeballs (some of us, both!) and all because of what?

Oh by the way, what did the class of 2000 contribute to the world? FACEBOOK. Yeah, that's right, we created facebook. Which started out as a glorified 'social networking' (ahem, HOOKUP) app for college students so that they could skirt around their purity culture steeped boomer ass parents who spent the majority of the 90's and early 00's guarding our collective virginity (what the actual fuck was that for? I do not remember Boomers getting this protective over Gen X's purity at all. Were we all going to be gathered up for a Y2K virgin sacrifice to Cthulu or something?) or at least attempting to by forcing youth group culture on us which has backfired and resulted in a lot of peeps actually leaving the church because in the end it wasn't a question of sexual integrity - it was a case of villifying sexuality in general unless it was in the confines of a heterosexual marriage. A lot of which have crumbled now because half the kids who grew up steeped in this culture have either discovered that they bound themselves to the wrong partner, or that they were a different sexuality all along and just forced to repress it to suit boomer parental narratives.

But getting back to what us Xennials contributed...

We created facebook.

Who's original intent was just a social media site for us, but we got a little lonely and we grew up a little and realized that the world was not going to come to an end if Mommy and Daddy knew that we had someone over at our dorm late at night, so we invited them to use it too and before long, Boomers took over facebook with their qanon BS and that is partially why we are in the SHITSPACE that we are in now.

Did every boomer contribute? No, definitely not, but did a lot of them contribute and we didn't do anything to stop it? Yes. Why? No really, tell me why, I'll wait!

We were waiting on their approval, that's why. We were the doormats, we were the 'good kids' we didn't burn out and openly disappoint them like our Gen X older siblings, we tried to do everything right and it fucked us over in the end anyway. The thing is... it's not an exclusively Boomer problem. It's not an exclusively Xennial Problem. It should not be a Gen Z problem but that's what it's looking like and to you guys - I am so sorry but we were lazy ass fucks and if no one else ever admits it to you? I will. I'm sorry.

You know what the problem is? Falling in line without question, because so many of us did. So many of us trusted our parents' generation and didn't take into account one thing - that they were human too and that ultimately... we needed to do that one thing, that one message that was always preached, but seemed to get lost in those childhood 1980's cartoons and movies.

Trusting ourselves. Cuz let's face it, we didn't. Even when the evidence that we should was staring us right straight in the face, we didn't trust ourselves at all. I realize that everybody's experience was different, and this is largely just an observation, but what Xennial hasn't been told to "keep going" and did so without question until you either physically or mentally broke? We were good cogs, but even the best machines eventually wear out and break... and we're seeing more and more of it now.

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