One of the best descriptions of current-day Gen Xers came in a review of "Bill and Ted Face the Music" at Slate, and I think it fits generally how our generation is still forgotten:
"In its way, this closing chapter of the Bill & Ted trilogy is an allegory for the status of Gen Xers in the dystopic landscape of 2020. They—for some of us, we—are now middle-aged slackers still waiting for our one grand moment of apotheosis, convinced the song we were put on Earth to write is yet to come even as the culture around us moves on."
In a way, though, we're used to it. We were pretty much forgotten as a generation as we grew up, in the shadow of the Baby Boomers, who still dominate the landscape like skulking dinosaurs today.
This is typical of how we're seen today:
We weren't ready as youngsters to lead. Too callow. And now, too forgotten. handing things over to even younger ones, well, just to do that without thinking of finding people up to the job, that seems stupid. But we live in Stupid Times.
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