Letters to the Editor
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David L.
I'm a member of Generation X. I read and was intrigued by Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Many Gen Xers did. We also read Be Here Now, embraced Richard Bach's Illusions, and felt a strong connection to established classics like Hesse's Demian and Steppenwolf.
At this point, I don't really agree with a lot that they have to say, but I took much of it to heart back then, and I was hardly alone in this. It was a fairly common experience for those of us in high school and college around that time: the mid-80's through the early 90's. There was also a big hippie revival going on that a lot of Xers embraced (Lennon and Hendrix and acid were quite the sensation).
Your cliched image of Boomers and Xers doesn't fit what actually was going on with either. Don't let two movies, Clerks and Slacker, define your perimeters. They were two parts of a larger picture.