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    Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 13 Aug 2019

    I was never part of the whole ironic-distance, don't-care Gen X thing in the 90s, but you can't really tell the story of that Gen X attitude in pop culture without relating its abrupt death on 9/11, just around the time many of us turned 30.

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      1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 13 Aug 2019

        It's like the asteroid killing the dinosaurs: you look at any pop culture created after 9/11, and the whole Gen X apathy trope is wiped out without a trace. Everybody grew up overnight. Even Chandler Bing settled down.

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      1. Nathan Wurtzel‏ @NathanWurtzel 13 Aug 2019
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        That's what everyone said about me. I wear it on my sleeve, so I was considered a throwback (to what?).

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      2. Caleb Howe‏Verified account @CalebHowe 13 Aug 2019
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        "I was never part of the whole ironic-distance, don't-care Gen X thing in the 90s" I also didn't care about not caring about shit and whatever.

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      3. Devil Pup  🐶 🇺🇸‏ @DevilPup74 13 Aug 2019
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        😂

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      2. Nyadnar#17‏ @Nyadnar17 13 Aug 2019
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        Did you guys actually not care or did you just not care about all the bullshit Boomers thought was important? I actually don't feel like I know Gen-Xers that well. From my perspective you guys always just kinda put your heads down and tried your best in the world you were handed

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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 13 Aug 2019
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        More the latter, I think. Also we graduated into a crappy job market (not unlike the Millennials) and that shaped people's views in their early 20s.

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      1. James Baker‏ @JDtheDJ2004 13 Aug 2019
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        Everything changed after 9/11. Every big and little thing. It's hard to even compare the time before to the time after. We all thought it would be Y2K, but it came when we dropped our guard and nothing's been the same.

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      2. Rob Stern‏ @putt4_doh 13 Aug 2019
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        I keep hearing that "Gen X didn't care" thing recently. Where did that come from? It wasn't my experience and I was totally unfamiliar with it as a "thing" until Twitter educated me.

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      1. Rick Allen‏ @907williwaw 13 Aug 2019
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        I never thought about that but you are absolutely correct. I was 27 at the time. Major paradigm shift.

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