Some Reasons Why Gen-Xers Don't Care | Opinion Piece/Commentary 

We care a lot.. we just don't care about stupid petty crap and drama..

Gen-Xers care about and work hard on things they care about, not necessarily things other people care about.

Me: Combat Vet - No family, No kids, No Friends Left, No cares left - trust me, my apathy and indifference to you - is a blessing.

Proud Gen-X'er over here. I loathe this current snowflake culture.

X, in mathematics, means UNKNOWN. Y’all have no clue what we’re capable of.

As a GenXer, I’ve been there! Home was rough, school was rough and life in general was rough. But it taught us to appreciate the good moments which could seem all too few and far between back then!

For a lot of us it wasn't even that our parents didn't care, we just didn't want to add to the shit they were already dealing with! so as always we just hid everything away and got on with it as best we could

We care but we pick our battles carefully.

It has to be a very good reason for us to care. We spent so much time just surviving and adults kept letting us down. We made our own families from our friend groups. But yeah,most of us are definitely just tired.

You touched on something interesting. As Gen X we were told not to show any emotions, and as a result we buried everything. As adults members of Gen X created bands like Slipknot, Disturbed, Godsmack, Korn, Papa Roach etc. which were very rage filled bands. We then had both the boomers and millennials tell us the music was to "emo" so basically we were told again not to have emotions.

When I tell my kids, I worked at a sawmill when I was 12 over summer vacation. They think I'm exaggerating. Oh yes, Child labor laws existed, "In theory". Taught me that at 12 years old, if you can work like an adult, you sill get paid like a kid. But at 14 when you can outwork an adult you can get a dollar more an hour, still not as good as everyone else got. At 47, I treat my employees better, and pay them in keeping.

Or, we complained about being bullied to our parents and schools and they didn't care about our problems then. F-em.

As to the "not caring". Another reason we don't care? Because it was DRILLED in to us as kids by our parents. "Why do you care what they think? Who are they to you? They don't like you screw them. Well now you know who your real friends are. Just don't pay attention to it. If you ignore it, it will stop. If you cry they will just keep doing it." For the most part, unless it got REALLY bad, our parents didn't go to the teacher or other school staff about it. We just had to "tuff it out, in 5 months you'll be out of school and maybe won't have classes with them next year".

Thank you for bringing up the bullying. I suffered for years from that. When 90's grune discussed this, it resonated. Now parents go out of their well to spare their kids this. No one helped us and we got grief for even bringing it up. Dad would say life isn't fair. You need to get used to it. So high school was pure hell. No one cared about us, so we stopped caring ourselves. We picj and choose what to give a flip about.

We are the "Don't start None, Won't be None" generation. I get weird looks when I say that to people, but I stand on that business 100%. PLEASE, let us be... You've been warned 😂❤

Being able to not care is a superpower, it's lonely, but if you really don't care it doesn't matter.

Changing cloth diapers for 6 other siblings. Shootin Copperheads so Pops didn't get bit clearing brush. Had to learn to drive 3 on the tree at age 12...bike ramps...if it was jumpable, somebody tried it...and we all paid for the attempt at one point. Work...always work to do...and "play" was outside in the "fort". Mixed tape creation was an art form... ...and the "Fire" we didn't start according to Joel...got shoved in our faces from day 1. What we saw...did not jive with what was "Right". (and it's happening again) So...like Twisted Sister said, "We Ain't Gonna Take it". Loved the commentary btw.

You always speak the truth about Generation X, we were latchkey kids, the stuff we've been through this generation will never know how to handle it, and I'm talking about these Late Millennials, Generation Z a Generation Alpha, I'm a early 70s baby so I agree with everything you're saying,, that's why I always said the best ERA in generation are the Baby Boomers Generation X, and Xennials those are the 80s babies, keep doing your thing my sister, The Best Is yet to come, the problem with this generation is there too damn sensitive to every damn thing,

The thing is: We had real danger at home with our parents and, as a German, I was afraid enough to be the center of the battlefield for the superpowers USSR and USA to care about other nations very much. Dancing and having fun on a vulcano whilst having to look for a job, taking care of your siblings, doing your chores, doing homework and trying to find out who the f you are whilst looking for the latest internship was occupying enough. You literally already grew up with everyone telling you you live in the end times. And acid rain still added on it, and Chernobyl with us Germans not being allowed to have fresh fruit from the garden...This was enough heavy weight on us. And the interesting thing for US is that the world did not come to an end, so we are a little sceptic on all that "end of the world" stuff that the climate demonstrations threw at us, whilst using their iphones made by Chinese children and with very seldom resources and going to foreign countries by plane every holiday. And with the cold war, both sides claimed it was the other sides fault, so we are a little sceptic about the missioners on both sides of the Israelian-Palestine war who say one side is the. devil whilst. the other is full of angels.....

Our attitude expressed our dissociation, and our music expressed our anger -- barely suppressed, and often explosive. We lacked today's psychological view, but to put it in words that any Millennials will understand: What are Dissociation and Suppressed Anger about, really? What do they signify? These are the traits of repeated trauma survivors.

GenX not caring has been a stereotype placed on us since we were kids. Older generations sometimes portrayed as the Lost Generation, as troubled losers and lazy deviants. But obviously we've cared, such as highly valuing family in ensuring our own kids weren't underparented as we were. On a political level, multiple major protest movements were filled with GenXers: WTO protest, Iraq War protest, Occupy Movement, BLM, etc. It's just we've never gotten credit for anything we've done as a generation.

Girrrrrl, that was 💯 spot on... and articulated extremely well, so thank you for your realness🥰

we do not care because we dealt with the same and worse as kids and we just shrugged it off we did not create hashtags or protest.

Such a great vid Rosey. We really did have it tough back then, but thank goodness we had each other for support back in those days. I remember playing video games at my local arcade and by the time I left I made 12 new friends. Now with all the drama and BS happening in the world, we really don't want to hear it. We finally got that peace we were looking for growing up and we just want to enjoy it now. Wishing you the best Rosey and thanks again. ❤

1971 gen x here and an introvert so I really don’t care. Never been to a protest or rally. Too busy working.

I would consider myself an Elder Millennial, but being raised by an actual boomer, I have the complete Gen X mentality. being raised in a very unsafe environment, I have gone through things I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I learned work ethic before the age of 10 by shoveling snow and cutting grass around my entire neighborhood. I never had more fun in my entire life helping people around my community as well.

I didn't get off the hook I remember picking out the switch I was about to get punished with

We were let off the hook because nobody cared about us.

Caring isn't a given, the world doesn't care and doesn't owe anyone anything. Whatever appears between those two realities is a bonus.

Snowflakes today would buckle at our lifestyle 40 to 50 years ago. We were built and raised differently. We tried to give our kids everything we didn't have. It turned our kids into ungrateful brats.

We were sold many lies, and we know it. We also know there's not much we can do about, some of us tried. Too many 🐑 to make a big difference. And now there's even more division. I thought we pretty much wiped it out for the most part, but they brought it back. Don't let them make you keep fighting each other, instead of "them". Yeah, I know we never defined "them" exactly. I guess we're still not really sure. Sorry kids, it's your turn now. If things get too bad, those of us that still can will probably get off the sofa and raise some hell, but not before then. Good luck.

“I don’t care if you use me again”. -- The Cars

another reason we don't/didn't get along w/our parents, is how many of us were conceived just to keep our old men outta Vietnam? i'm one of those. i NEVER saw my my parents show any affection towards each other, except hate. that takes a toll on your brain. theres a reason Gen X created Death and Black Metal.

grew up with mom in east LA, watts, Compton, no dad, we did what we needed to do

Forget step parents. I didn't get along with my parents. Still don't.

We were supposed to be the generation that kept the Boomers from going overboard.

Gen X is like a mix of the honey badger and the Tasmanian devil when you piss us off.

Not having to look down the barrel at the sort of education my kid would get NOW, is more than enough to be thankful for.

Just remember gen z snow babies,mess with the bull,you get the horns! 😈😈😈😈😈😈

SING IT, my sister

some of us had to work to help our parents with bills

Its not the time period we were born in that makes us indifferent, its how the world has changed in our lifetime

We care, honestly. We just don't give a f#ck about bullshit.

I can’t tell if this is supposed to be a comedic commentary or not. (And sorry about that.) Look. Let’s be 14.75% serious here for a moment. I am CLASSIC GenX (closer to the start). I ABSOLUTELY do care. About a lot, actually. Family. Business cohorts. The Republic. I care. I probably don’t care about YOU (GenZ) but it’s certainly not because I “hate you.” That’s just dumb. When we were turned out at 7am in the summer, we ran like wolves but we weren’t criminals. There were rules. We made them up collectively as kids. We enforced those rules and mores. No parents. No “grown ups” had to mediate for us. We ran a democracy out there for 12-14 hours at a time. The doing of that made us rabidly independent. You had to think on the fly… make decisions on the fly… and be decisive (if you wanted to be heard). You had to learn how to negotiate and persuade. Most of the kids in our tribe had guts. We cared about each other and looked after our own safety. Those that did NOT meet the requirements, we kept at arms length. The reason I point this out is because our current times seem (!) to be peopled by individuals who EXPECT to be heard, considered, and respected without putting an inch of skin in the game. You haven’t met us, have you? I never think about you. You impact my life exactly naught. Zip. Zero. I don’t know you. I may never know you. Do you even think that bothers me for a split second? I might end up caring what you think. Depends on a few factors I’ll keep to myself. I don’t hate you, though. And don’t say that. It’s just that I don’t care about you… yet. And don’t assume I will as if I owe you something. Because I’ll jam that right back in your face and you will have awoken the monster in the maelstrom. Bad policy, GenZ. Bad planning. /end serious/

In a nutshell, from a job recruiter: "Ooh, I see your resume is very impressive. You've worked at NASA, HP, and Microsoft. Everybody starts at the same rate of $13/hr. and there will be 20+ hours mandatory weekly overtime. How does that sound, champ?"

You mess with bull... You get the horns... 47... This month...

you wanna know why we don't care? just read the lyrics to We Hate Everyone by Type O Negative

I am white, grew up in hoods, when I worked, Ib have half my pay to mom

Why do gen X suddenly need to justify themselves. Gen x myself and think it is strange that everything is such an issue just because of some zoomers.

Question: What is the difference between Gen X and Gen Z? Are they the same generation?

True sister

God bless you.

I'm a Gen X 1969 Honey Badger cause honey badger just don't care.

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