Comments on: Gen X [meme]: Slackers, Sellouts or Saviors http://www.newcommbiz.com/gen-x-meme-slackers-sellouts-or-saviors/ Social Media and the Future of Business Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:54:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: gregorylent http://www.newcommbiz.com/gen-x-meme-slackers-sellouts-or-saviors/comment-page-1/#comment-27963 gregorylent Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:27:31 +0000 http://www.newcommbiz.com/?p=1833#comment-27963 oh, slacking is generation-non-specific, runs right across and through the years/generations/incarnations ... as to rage, waste of energy, but that is not seen for a few years/generations/incarnations ...<br><br>love trumps slack, is another topic .. :-) oh, slacking is generation-non-specific, runs right across and through the years/generations/incarnations … as to rage, waste of energy, but that is not seen for a few years/generations/incarnations …

love trumps slack, is another topic .. :-)

]]> By: Taylor Davidson http://www.newcommbiz.com/gen-x-meme-slackers-sellouts-or-saviors/comment-page-1/#comment-27962 Taylor Davidson Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:18:01 +0000 http://www.newcommbiz.com/?p=1833#comment-27962 I would like to think that "slacking" is not an intractable Gen X disposition but was (is?) instead a rational choice given the available options. The "rage against the machine" is still there; without the opportunities to have an impact on their terms, Gen Xers directed the rage internally by dropping out of the game (slacking), but given the opportunities to impact the game itself, the rage can be a powerful driving force. Or at least that's my hope... I would like to think that “slacking” is not an intractable Gen X disposition but was (is?) instead a rational choice given the available options. The “rage against the machine” is still there; without the opportunities to have an impact on their terms, Gen Xers directed the rage internally by dropping out of the game (slacking), but given the opportunities to impact the game itself, the rage can be a powerful driving force. Or at least that's my hope…

]]> By: Steve Nipper http://www.newcommbiz.com/gen-x-meme-slackers-sellouts-or-saviors/comment-page-1/#comment-27959 Steve Nipper Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:07:20 +0000 http://www.newcommbiz.com/?p=1833#comment-27959 Tac:<br><br>I sure hope we are different...but I worry it will be more of the same. We'll turn out just like the generation before us. Take for instance, take the old Genesis song "Land of Confusion," which includes:<br><br>I won't be coming home tonight<br>My generation will put it right<br>We're not just making promises<br>That we know we'll never keep<br><br>If People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive 1986 (Phil Collins*) couldn't "put it right"...how can we hope to be any different? <br><br>How will we be different? How will we be the generation that makes a different in the long term?<br><br>*yes, I totally made that up. Tac:

I sure hope we are different…but I worry it will be more of the same. We'll turn out just like the generation before us. Take for instance, take the old Genesis song “Land of Confusion,” which includes:

I won't be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right
We're not just making promises
That we know we'll never keep

If People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive 1986 (Phil Collins*) couldn't “put it right”…how can we hope to be any different?

How will we be different? How will we be the generation that makes a different in the long term?

*yes, I totally made that up.

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