This article contends it may be up to Generation X fathers to save America. Bizarrely, it brings up Tom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr., who are in reality Boomers, not Gen Xers. (Downey was born in 1965, so he might just barely count as Gen X; Cruise was born in 1962, which definitely makes him a Boomer.)
Rich Cohen may have been right. Writing in Vanity Fair in 2017, Cohen announced that “Generation X might be our last, best hope.” Sandwiched between the crazy liberal boomers and the insane social-justice warriors of the millennials and Generation Z, Generation X, those born between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s, may offer the realism and humility required to lead America through its current storms.
Generation X, Cohen writes, are “the last Americans schooled in the old manner, the last Americans that know how to fold a newspaper, take a joke, and listen to a dirty story without losing their minds.” He notes that we’ve “seen what became of the big projects of the boomers as that earlier generation had seen what became of all the big social projects. As a result we could not stand to hear the Utopian talk of the boomers as we cannot stand to hear the Utopian talk of the millennials. We know that most people are rotten to the core, but some are good, and proceed accordingly.”
No pressure.
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