Hey Jimi-

I'm really impressed that you found my posting so compelling that you had to quote nearly all of it. Must've really pissed you off. Imagine that, an passe 'old' man pissing off a younger 'cooler' guy. I guess the 'Gen-Xers' can still get to people. Why so defensive anyway little man? Shouldn't you be out in some uber-hip wine bar trying to get laid?

"An increasing level of mental disease, especially in the United States"? Is that right? You're leaving yourself wide open for that one but anyway...

I'm going to put this as plainly as I can to you. From where I'm stitting, your generation lacks any real, life experience. I'm not going to go on about why or what, for starters all I can do is quote a sign that I'm sure you and a lot of your peers are familiar with: "BABY ON BOARD". When I say 'life experience' I'm not saying that as a person who, by default, has more years than you. I'm saying that it seems to me that 20 somethings that I knew when I was part of that demographic, and even the ones that I knew when they were older than me had a little more clarity about what the world was REALLY like. Not the anti-septic iPod dance party you guys are involved in. What does saying 'what the world was REALLY like' mean, you should try to find out. But at the rate you spoiled brats are going at you're probably never going to know. Sorry.

Boomers hating the X-ers? I don't really understand that and I've seen it written about more than once. I can tell you this though, my generation was impressed by the Boomers and a lot of the generations that proceeded them. Kerouac, Pollack, Rauschenberg and a lot of the authors and artists that were alive during and post WWII are IMPRESSIVE people to me and my peers. I never thought 'they're old...they don't understand'. My mission in life wasn't to dismantle their monument to cool-ness and tell them to make room for me because I was younger and cooler. If anything I aspired to accomplish some of the amazing things they did.

Whatever the case is. I don't see any real deep thinking coming out of people in their 20s these days. That's jsut the way it looks to me and I don't live in an underground bunker with the windows blacked out. A good example is that TMZ show with the older guy and his little underlings in the office dishing out celebrity stories to each other? Are you kidding? This is what 20 somethings are into now? And reality shows? The Hills? Are you fucking kidding me?

And 'garbage in/garbage out'. If you don't know what that means than you're in pretty big trouble. It doesn't matter how physically young you may be. Our generation, and the ones that preceeded the 'X-ers' will always be cooler than you guys.

Here's a few thoughts on Gen-Y from an X-er (born in the mid 60s):

Overall sense of entitlement. No real sense of paying ones dues.

Clueless to anything that was created before they were born.

Exclusive willingness to buy into digital gizmos that in turn keep them disconnected for their environment.

Have yet to invent their own sense of style, music, etc but are willing to re-hash things from 20 years ago, and then trash the people who invented it.

Overwhelmed with their own brand of irony (dumb ass mustaches and beards, dressing like geeks because after all 'it's hip to be square'. Gotta let people know your thinking about what your place is in society don't you?) Think American Apparel ad and you'll know what I'm talking about.

No problem with wasting their nightlife in wine bars, upscale restaurants, and clubs.

They think punk started with Green Day.

Their generational representatives are Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Lindsay Lohan.

Almost no sense of adventure or creativity. (I met a guy in his 20s not that long ago, showed him a picture in MOJO magazine of Iggy Pop from the 70s bleeding in some club in LA. The Gen-Y guy was not only genuinely shocked by what he saw, but had no clue who that person was. His quote: "oh my god...what is this guy doing?" Not making that up.)

Also, is it me or do most of these people that live the real 'Gen-Y' life, don't they all look like children of privilege to you? Doesn't it seem like their whole lives up to this point have been nice and cozy with a little red bow on top? Everything has been paid for an taken care of. I don't recognize any sense of...struggle..for lack of a better word. The ones that annoy me the most are the 'rock' bands or whatever they call the music now. All these kids look like dressed down sons and daughters of dentists and investment bankers who have now decided to rebel with their own brand of downloadable 'rock'.

The one advantage Gen-Y has over previous generations is their accessibility to technology. A kid now can learn a program at home during his high school years and go out into the work force in their 20s with some fairly bankable knowledge. The so-called Apprenticeship of yore is shorter OR non-existent. That's real frustrating for us Analog kids who had to learn on the job working LONG-ass hours with cranky bosses. These punk ass mother fuckers have access to this stuff like a toy mommy and daddy gave them for Christmas. It sucks, but it's reality. BUt then again garbage in, garbage out. Computer savvy doesn't equal crativity. Whatever the case may be, I'm glad I'm not in my 20s now. Their overall existence here on the planet seems cheaper and more transparent than any generation before them. Good luck robots.

**PS Kurt Cobain is NOT the be all and end all of Gen-X. In fact, he is majorly overrated.