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Generation X Saves the World


On March 31, Jeff Gordinier's book X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything From Sucking makes its debut. Once upon a time, baby boomers famously didn't trust anyone over 30. Gordinier, a trenchant pop-culture critic, doesn't trust anyone who's not between the ages of 30 and 47 to remedy the vast suckscape he sees around him, dominated by Britney Spears and boomer proclamations that they're reinventing everything. Many Xers, he writes, "are just as wary and skeptical as they've been rumored to be, and yet they are in fact (gag ... grumble ... wince) changing the world." He cites such gen-X creations as YouTube, Dave Eggers's 826 Valencia writing program, Architecture for Humanity, and Meetup.com as the signs of hope that his generation can sneakily trump boomer narcissism and millennial entitlement.

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03/31/2008
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