Generation X

post-Baby Boomer generation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X born from 1965 to around 1982

• Generation Jones is the social cohort[1][2] worldwide and micro generation cusper segment[3] of the latter half of the baby boomer generation to the first year of Generation X.[4][5][6][7] The term Generation Jones was first coined by the American cultural commentator Jonathan Pontell, who identified the cohort as those born from 1954 to 1965 in the U.S.,[8] who were children during Watergate, the oil crisis, and stagflation rather than during the 1950s, but slightly before Gen X.

The term was first used in a 1964 study of British youth by Jane Deverson.... In 1976, the phrase was picked up as the name of a punk rock band featuring Billy Idol...

was later popularized by Douglas Coupland's (1991) novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, which describes the angst of those born between roughly 1960 and 1965, who felt no connection to the cultural icons of the baby boom generation... Coupland took the X from Paul Fussell's 1983 book Class, where the term "CategoryX" designated a region of America's social hierarchy, rather than a generation.

• Neologisms: http://web.archive.org/web/20061102192545/http://www.scn.org/~jonny/genx.html Architectural Indigestion: (page 75) The almost obsessive need to live in a 'cool' architectural environment. Frequent related objects of fetish include framed black-and-white art photography (Diane Arbus is a favorite); simplistic pine furniture; matte black high-tech items such as TVs, stereos, and telephones; low-wattage ambient lighting; a lamp, chair, or table that alludes to the 1950s; cut flowers with complex name.

Jeff Gordiner defense:

• http://www.jeffgordinier.com/x-saves-the-world/
• http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1731528,00.html?imw=Y
• http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2008/05/interview-with-jeff-gordinier-how.html

followed by Generation Y?