GenX to Baby Boomers: Now what?

[Taverner]

Hey guys,

Look, I know we've had our kerfuffles. We were in to apathy, while you guys were into sympathy, but then we one-upped you and did the empathy thing. Ah the times, the laughs.

I make no secret that we were your first 'product'

When you guys became our teachers, our instructors, our mentors - we became your students, acolytes, your padwans

Some of us even got to be your children

Anyway, we've been in our 30s-40s lately, and you were at this point in the 80s

Yeah, we hated Reagan too - and I always wondered how Jimmy Carter, a nuclear-scientist-cum-President lost that one

But what I really need to know, what we all need to know - is now what?

Seizing the means of production has not been the problem - its what to do with those means once acquired

I know you guys are about to retire and play anything but golf (at least I hope) - and we'll be looked at as some kind of elder (does the idea of Henry Rollins as an elder strike you as ironic? Yeah, me too)

So now what?

Signed,

GenX Taverner