This is more than a generation gap - it is chasm approaching abyss. We need to bridge it with understanding and relationship. It is a stance and an attitude that those of us born in earlier generations need to confront at a much deeper level, beyond the easy and customary superficialities. Generation X is our future. They are us.

Carol Lobes
Generation X - A Prevention Parable, A Call to Insight

Who Will Save The Children?
Why, you will of course, assuming the children need to be saved. You with your decades of experience, your infinite wisdom, your articles and books. You simply must be the perfect person for the job. You'll go down in history as the Person Who Saved Generation X. Hallelujah.

Wait, I'm getting ahead of myself. What are you saving them from, exactly? It seems the popular consensus is that the entirety of a generation, some huge number of people, is on a rocky road to nowhere. Come now, is that logical? For the moment and for the sake of this web page, we'll assume it is the most perfectly logical thing on the planet. Let's throw caution to the wind and try to save the poor misguided X'ers from their inevitable fates.

The plea found at the top of this page is a quotation from an essay entitled Generation X - A Prevention Parable, A Call to Insight, in which someone's mom tries to get through Generation X's "tough, prickly, dissociated exterior aura." I'm not kidding. Carol Lobes rambles on for a few pages about the forces that formed the generation and why it is so important that people like herself need to bridge that good old generation gap. It would probably lead one to wonder how that gap got there in the first place, but I digress.

Some of you out there may recognize the name Ted Rall. Others may not. It really doesn't matter. The man has written a little tiny essay on the Social Security drama that is facing many X'ers these days, as the eldest of the group enter their mid-30's. This essay, Have to Die Before I Get Old: Generation X Faces Old Age, addresses the Social Security thing by way of a happy little Kurt Cobain reference. RIP. The Concord Coalition of Pennsylvania has also published a little something about this very topic, including actual facts. It is called Listen Up, Generation X and includes the following sentence: "...members of Generation X should stop their whining about the entitlement burden because it will not be very large." (Read it and see what they mean.)

What crisis would be complete without the Christians? The lost members of Generation X are a prime target for the kind and compassionate souls of God's very own army, snatching the doomed from the clutches of demons everywhere. Whether by poetry, tracts, or old-fashioned ministry, one thing is for certain, this generation of X'ers is the focus of some pretty Aggressive Christianity.

When you're finished converting your young, come on back here and we'll get down to business.