Rad Geek People’s Daily

I am really, really tired of every modern social bloc (be it BoBos or Generation X or Generation Next or Internet capitalists or modern cheesecake workers) being declared some kind of messianic Third Way which will somehow fundamentally shatter the old categories of left and right. I am even more tired of summary swipes at affirmative action, the assumption that distrust of the government or the two-party system is somehow dangerous to the future of American democracy, and the incessant claim that voting for representatives (as opposed to, say, petitioning, boycotting, and even gasp! direct action) is the only way to make political change. Nevertheless, this analysis of the politics of Generation X is an interesting look at several of the phenomena going on in today’s generational divide.