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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College 93-97 here, the “apathy” trope permeated everything around us at the time.
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Seinfeld probably would have been a much different show had it still been on the air.
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I think there’s some truth to this but: Chandler married Monica before 9/11. Seinfeld has been off the air for three years. And Cobain had killed himself 7 years before. In other words, it was already dying.
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Adulthood was already on the way. But it definitely provided a sharp break in the cultural portrayal of our generation.
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Caught the tail end of that as a Gen Xer, but yeah -- a generation grew up overnight for sure. Apathy turned into "oh shit, settle down" very quickly.
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Great observation.
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Can’t agree more. I went from 27 (felt 18) to 35 in 10 minutes.
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