by thenewgreen

Back in the early ’90s, boomer pundits across America declared Generation X a group of apathetic, coddled, entitled slackers. Born between roughly 1961 and 1981, they lacked any political idealism—“stuck in a terminal cynicism,” as The Dallas Morning News observed. Gormless narcissists, their “intimacy and communication skills remain at a 12-year-old level,” one expert wrote. Even Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons—one of Generation X’s most influential masterworks—com­plained that “there’s no intellectual pride or content to this generation. The domi­nant pop culture is MTV and the Walkman.”