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
Apr 20, 2015
Apr 20, 2015 at 4:45 AM UTC
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
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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