![]() ‘There’s nothing so micro-humiliating as making a Brady Bunch reference and the room going silent.’ Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo The term became a meme back when society only had five or six of them a year. It became a cliche that every other advertising montage showed someone sledge-hammering the Berlin Wall – and there was this new group of younger people who obviously didn’t fit into any pre-existing category, so who were they? Marshall McLuhan wrote that the oversimplification of anything is always exciting, which is I think what happened with Gen X. Why accelerated? By the tail end of the 80s and the start of the 90s it felt as if history was finally emerging from locked-in syndrome. In the late 1980s, I disliked being classified as a baby boomer so much that I had to invent my way out of it my debut novel, published 30 years ago, was called Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. How you identify has always been a big deal. ![]() ![]() I filter the ways I experience the world. I’m 59 and a half years old – and these days I no longer feel that I identify as a human being. ![]()
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