6 commandments of gen x

bob carlton had a post on his blog about someone's post of the "six commandments of baby boomers"

1. Thou Shalt Be Hip.
2.  Accommodate the Culture to Keep Thyself Relevant.
3.  Honor Thine Individuality
4.  Thou Shalt Forget History.
5.  Thou Shalt Feel Guilty for Selling Out.
6.  Thou Shalt Question Authority.

unwilling to let the boomers best us, here are my 6 commandments of generation x.

1. thou shalt NOT have commandments
we are free-range, so there!

2. if we had commandments, being hip can't be one
you can't try to be hip, you just are, or are NOT

3. thou shalt NOT be sold
we hate marketing and pandering, ugh. relevant is not our vocabulary, but authentic is

4. honor thy friends the rat pak of our lives-
'i'll be there for you' = gen xer national anthem

5. thou shalt dumpster dive & rummage through history
(we need connections to the past to move into the future)

6. ignore authority,
'fight the power'- why bother, eh?
we vote with our feet and our mouse ;-)

Comments

[The Krow]

Karen thanks for the post. I'm humored by the reality of the gen x commandments.

[+ Alan]

I like it Karen. I was most definitely reading myself in the gen X deal. Peace to you!

[susie]

and i am humored by the reality of the boomer commandments...rebeling against them daily;)
so how/where do we meet in between...or can we write a third alternative...in the realm of 'post-everything' especially categories and labels...

[timsamoff]

Very nice. :)

[Pernell]

Nice, Karen. Way to go.

[john o'keefe]

love them - mostly #6 :)

[gwen the monster]

hey kare-bear,

where's the pic gary took of you in the computer screen (when we were at Shawn's)? I want to see it!

Today I cleaned out the recycling bucket at living:room because when I got here it was overflowing. I've only done it like 2 other times (because I always forget! I'm such a bad employee!)- this was by far the most disgusting. I'm considering getting us a system where we don't have to sort the contents anymore, like two containers, one for glass and one for paper/cans. And I think we should always use a garbage bag as a liner so that liquid doesn't just sit on the walls and in the bottom. What do you think?

Looking forward to having you home, but I do like the reminders of all the hard work you do as manager that I sometimes forget until you are out of town. It reminds me not to take all you do for granted!
-Gwen

PS-- I was trying to think, as I sorted the bottles, each one of these bottles represents a person who was here, being a part of what we do. It helped me get through the [gross] process to try viewing it from the perspective that each of these bottles was money we made, and was people we encountered (and/or who encountered us) and may God bring them each many more happy encounters with us at the living:room. See! Sometimes when you stop and do the dirty work, you actually learn something!

[gwen the monster]

uh, i dont know how that post happened twice. you can delete one of them. i can't tell if there is some way for me to delete it. SORRY!!!