Generation X: Our Last Best Hope

[Nearly Sane]

This is a tongue in cheek piece but it hits a lot of good notes. I particularly like
'History is big and we are small; grand projects end in ruin; sometimes the best you can do is have a drink—that’s what we know' which echoes me introducing Yeats' The Second Coming to my mother today




https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/08/why-generation-x-might-be-our-last-best-hope