Saturday, June 05, 2004

Blah-blah-blah “Greatest Generation” blah-blah blahbity-blah “D-Day” blah-blah-blah-blah. And more blah. Like so over it, don’t wanna hear it, don’t care. Yeah, I know those guys fought World War II. World War II was really noble- an actual war that we actually had to fight- but can we stop with the Baby Boomer kiss ass of their parents generation? The Boomers are so busy praising their elders that it makes you wonder whether they’re doing it because they mean it or because they’re doing it as a way of trying to make it up to them for being such shitty little brats before their parents all croak.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, that generation survived the Depression, then WWII, then the Cold War but is it because they were so great or just because of timing? You know, just because they got born into that period doesn’t necessarily mean that they were great. It’s not my generation’s fault that pre-9/11, the most traumatic thing that happened to us was when Fox decided to move “Melrose Place” to Monday nights, thus breaking up the Great “BH 90210”/ “Melrose Place” double-bill (and let’s see the Greatest Generation deal with that. A lot of friendships were broken over the decision over whether to hold the TV viewing party on Monday’s or Wednesdays). And if the “Greatest Generation” was the Greatest Generation, what does that make the rest of us? The “Meh Generation?” “The Merely Adequate Generation?” The "Suck Ass Generation"? So my generation didn’t get a chance to save the world from tyranny? Is that our fault? We created the internet. We turned irony into an art form. We created 'zines.

Where’s our props?

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