Lol, like the 60s counterculture movement (primarily boomers since Xers weren't even born til '65) never happened. You had real communes forming in major cities and an organized rejection of work and capitalism that Gen Xers never even came close to putting together. Show me one GenX movement that truly threatened capitalism the way that Haight-Ashbury did in the 60s.
Instead, GenX allowed capitalism to subsume anticapitalism itself. Wannabe hippies bought their tie-dye from all the old spots, bought their folk and psych music from the old labels, and made the movement into an aesthetic that the old guard profited from. Don't "greatest generation" that BS.
And obviously don't idolize boomers either. Not like their efforts or outlook were perfect or they didn't fuel the downfall of anticapitalism either, but you just can't say that X did anything more significant or novel than the cultural revolution of the 60s.
GenX is arguably the first one to show compassion as a generation. Previous generations were about getting theirs, conforming, or dealing with war. GenX is the first one to consciously reject parts of popular culture, the first to become aware of (i.e. the knowledge went beyond scientists) larger issues and care about them beyond how it affected us directly -- we cared and fought about AIDS, pollution, whales, Mexican immigrants, gay rights, non-traditional families, etc.
We were the first ones with extreme forms of music save for a few exceptions like Black Sabbath which were earlier. But we made all the really hardcore forms of everything, punk, metal, techno, etc.
We're the ones who took computer technology from esoteric to everyday and actually knows how it works. People talk about how younger generations are the computer literate ones, but in actuality except for the Linux nerds they are only literate in UIs for apps.
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