Reply #234: I am QUITE sure [View All]

that you found your experiences wonderful. Just as I have a lot of good memories of my teen and young adult years.

It was the media oversaturation of your generation all the years we were growing up that gets under our skin. That's ALL I am expressing in this thread. My two parents weren't in charge of the entire media machine. Individually, they had nothing to do with it!

But it's the bigger picture view you're missing here--we have been beat over the head with your generation since birth. Yes, you got to hear about the Greatest Generation and the Great Depression, but I would argue that your generation had much expanded tools for beating your drums loud and long since the media was more advanced by the early 70s onward. Exploring and celebrating popular culture wasn't the norm in the newspapers of the 40s and 50s. Certainly not compared to how it expanded later.

Also, don't take all this so damn personally. Your generation is simply like one of those young movie stars who gets overexposed and people get sick of seeing her in everything, every movie, every interview, every newspaper and magazine article, EVERYTHING. After a while they just tire of her, period. That's your generation to me and many other Generation Xers.