Cake, Entropy, and Fuck the Hippies

A little deeper conversation about the grunge music scene, second wave gen-xers and fuck the hippies.

You could argue that grunge’s anger would eventually devolve into emo, and that the second-wave Generation X sub-culture would eventually degenerate into hipsterism… you could argue that, and you might even be right. But goddamn it, the Baby Boomers have romanced Woodstock ’69 into fucking the second coming of Jesus and the return of classic Coke all rolled into one; I feel entitled to a bit of indulgence, to pointing out how cool things were while ignoring what they’d eventually become. Maybe you could argue that this trend, this cultural entropy, is part of why Generation X has been largely ignored—I leave that as an exercise for the reader. Hell, make a blog post about it, and I’ll link to it, if you write that article…

Also check out his guide to gen-x.