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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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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Replying to @baseballcrank
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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Replying to @cjscalia
Adulthood was already on the way. But it definitely provided a sharp break in the cultural portrayal of our generation.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
I think Ben Folds Five’s Battle of Who Could Care Less is the perfect encapsulation of that detachment and its twilight.
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One thing that brought this to mind: listening to the Political Beats on Ben Folds. His first solo album dropped on 9/11.
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