Without fear of being canceled, we teased and were teased mercilessly-and, yes, sometimes, it was cruel. This taught us to get up and gifted us with resilience. We ate mouthfuls of the dirt of failure, loss, and humiliation. If you wanted to be accepted in our world, you had to be laid back, cool, open-minded, roll with the punches, and take a joke. This meant that when we came across someone different, we shrugged, said, “Whatever,” and asked if they’d heard the new AC/DC album.Īustralian rock band AC/DC’s new singer Axl Rose performs on stage in Vienna, Austria, on (HANS KLAUS TECHT/AFP via Getty Images). This meant we minded our own business and ridiculed the moralists who didn’t. Since death hovered over our every moment and death focuses the mind like nothing else, we quickly got our priorities in order. Instead, we became the awesomest generation-Generation X.īelieving we would die anyway, instead of wasting our short lives worrying about what we couldn’t control, we chose to party and stop sweating the small stuff (skin color, cultural differences, microaggressions, how other people chose to live, speak, and believe). These manipulative leftists mistakenly believed scare tactics would convince my generation to extend their socialist peace movement through the anti-nuke or environmental movement.

Imminent death was pounded into us.Īnd if it wasn’t nukes, it was the depletion of the ozone layer, acid rain, Global Cooling, the population bomb, worldwide famine, the exhaustion of natural resources, or something else that ended up being exposed as a hoax. Over and over, they had us participate in useless and terrifying “duck and cover” nuclear drills. Even in our Weekly Reader, death was right around the corner.

Our teachers were the adult hippies, and so we were constantly told we would soon die in a nuclear blast. Here’s how the left’s doomsday lies created the awesome generation of Generation X.

Doomsday by John Peel