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The Empty Generation

by lynda-kerby

conceived to the rhythms of Woodstock           weaned on Watergate                     raised on Trickle-Down Reaganomics                               our adolescence taught us contempt for a government           but our education kept us too ignorant to reach past the disillusionment                    aging under a system of                                corruption and greed                     dying penniless unto our birthright as the empty generation
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lynda-kerby
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Written by
lynda-kerby
American
Published
Apr 20, 2015
Time
2m
Notes

I'm a bit of a Wikipedia nerd and

I had read how the boys that had returned home from the battles of WWI

partially due to what is now known as PTSD and

other factors were labeled the lost generation and

I had also read that those of us born in 1966,

they overlapped us as being one of the very youngest of the baby boomers,

or one of the very 1st to be known as Generation X.

I feel there was a gap in the generation

because I don't really feel that I can claim Viet Nam and

Woodstock for my own,

but neither did I grow up with the childhood of being a slacker latchkey kid playing video games after school either, so I wrote about what I deemed us to be :

The Empty Generation

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