Comments on: My Generation http://kevinbasil.com/2004/09/22/my-generation/ Decimation & Reconstruction: a weblog Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:38:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Chris Dmitri http://kevinbasil.com/2004/09/22/my-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-633 Chris Dmitri Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:38:39 +0000 http://blog.kevinbasil.com/2004/09/22/my-generation/#comment-633 I have been thinking for a long time that it is not the "sacremental theology" and community that brings some GenXers into Orthodoxy, but the idea that they are joining a counter-counter-culture movement. Of course they <strong>stay</strong> for the sacremental theology and community. I have been thinking for a long time that it is not the “sacremental theology” and community that brings some GenXers into Orthodoxy, but the idea that they are joining a counter-counter-culture movement.

Of course they stay for the sacremental theology and community.

]]> By: basil http://kevinbasil.com/2004/09/22/my-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-632 basil Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:11:26 +0000 http://blog.kevinbasil.com/2004/09/22/my-generation/#comment-632 There are multiple levels of irony in choosing that quote to respond to your post. Primarily the idea that the people you were quoting are parroting a fave expression of the Baby Boomers. But there is also irony in that John Entwistle, bassist for The Who, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/1213203.stm">died a couple of years ago</a>. I think Generation X is defined in part by its refusal to be defined. Most Xers I know, including myself to some degree, hate being labelled Generation X, because it is a way of labelling, boxing-in, defining. Xers, above all, want to be their own uniqueness and be recognized <em>for that</em> rather than for whatever makes them like everyone else. Yet, ironically, they also have a very deep need for community. It is very schizoid, actually. There are multiple levels of irony in choosing that quote to respond to your post. Primarily the idea that the people you were quoting are parroting a fave expression of the Baby Boomers. But there is also irony in that John Entwistle, bassist for The Who, died a couple of years ago.

I think Generation X is defined in part by its refusal to be defined. Most Xers I know, including myself to some degree, hate being labelled Generation X, because it is a way of labelling, boxing-in, defining. Xers, above all, want to be their own uniqueness and be recognized for that rather than for whatever makes them like everyone else. Yet, ironically, they also have a very deep need for community. It is very schizoid, actually.

]]> By: Erich http://kevinbasil.com/2004/09/22/my-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-631 Erich Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:11:23 +0000 http://blog.kevinbasil.com/2004/09/22/my-generation/#comment-631 I like being in Generation X, to tell you the truth. We were never movers and shakers, but just constant skeptics, suffering from a Pearl Jam sorta existential angst. Could be a constructive thing. However, in the end, I think I'd subscribe to a deconstruction of generational typology. I like being in Generation X, to tell you the truth. We were never movers and shakers, but just constant skeptics, suffering from a Pearl Jam sorta existential angst. Could be a constructive thing. However, in the end, I think I’d subscribe to a deconstruction of generational typology.

]]> By: alana http://kevinbasil.com/2004/09/22/my-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-630 alana Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:42:43 +0000 http://blog.kevinbasil.com/2004/09/22/my-generation/#comment-630 Hey man, you're getting old, too...and I believe the ones who wrote that song are even older still. But as a gen X er, I never really felt the need to reinvent...to stamp my foot and say: "here I am, by dingy"...maybe that's why it's generation X. Are we invisible? Hey man, you’re getting old, too…and I believe the ones who wrote that song are even older still. But as a gen X er, I never really felt the need to reinvent…to stamp my foot and say: “here I am, by dingy”…maybe that’s why it’s generation X. Are we invisible?

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