And how the heck do you make Bill Clinton a loser, and put him on the list with those dimwits and shills? He sure helped in Florida, ese. Are you another one of those EOBs?

Please--I know what you mean, but "elephanthead" would more appropriately refer to Ganesha, the god who helps remove obstacles, a good guy, not to elephantman, the sullen troll.

Geez what a snide piece of self-congratulation masquerading as rapprochement. And you think the so-called BOOMERS take themselves seriously? Don't you get the picture, kiddo? You're young now. You won't be always. Sure, you make a nod in that direction at the end, but I doubt you really understand. It's about HUMANS, not generations. Do you seriously expect me to be grateful for the approbation of such a witless cluck, so full of how "her" generation had it worse than ANYBODY EVER? Do you seriously think with a little cutesy-pie conflation of millions of individuals into one socks-and-sandals-wearing seriously boring smelly old stereotype you comprehend what has gone before or say anything that shows genuine insight? WE? You really think there's a WE? You conceive that everyone of your approximate age feels exactly as you do, will behave exactly as you think best? I hope not, because that would mean you were robots, identical simulacra.

I do hope you do better and have a better world than I did, even if it should mean that you stay so self-satisfied, even if it means you never realize just how condescending and full of overblown generalizations your little essay is.

Wouldn't hurt, though, if along the way you learned to tell the difference between a sense of humor and knee-jerk snotty ha-has. Wouldn't hurt if you learned that it is damned hard to save your soul no matter what age you were born into. What's the matter with you, child? Didn't yo momma raise you right?

You know the phrase in your essay that's really going to haunt you as you age? That is, if you turn into someone with enough conscience to be haunted by your own earlier foolishness.

" . . . self-important prattle . . ."

Second Generation Pilot: A bucketful of snide is not a warm apology, no matter whether the bucket is labeled apology or how warm it makes the person feel who offers it. No one with any self-respect accepts a pseudo-apology which basically says, You were all the same and you were all shitty but we enlightened ones forgive you.

Some humans, Jason G, from all generations, do not make the really dumbass mistake of assuming that any generation is uniquely good or bad or otherwise uniform (that very view has been, incidentally, fostered chiefly by commercial interests). It does not hold in most other nations, and if it were true I would assume that all people your age felt as you do, but I am fairly certain they do not. I do not criticize all Gen-Xers, for one thing because I think that is a spurious category of humans. I criticize this article.

Both of you: No doubt you and I voted for the same people and probably for highly similar reasons. I would rather you quit flattering yourself as uniquely concerned and committed because of the age you grew up in, but I realize my odds of persuading you to do so are very small.

On the other hand, I do not need to persuade you. Make your assumptions and run with them, and good luck.