Punk Rock Earnestness
Overthrowing the system with kindness?
2 min readMay 30, 2023
I belong to Gen X. I grew up on a steady media diet of sarcasm and snark.
We were the punk rock generation — anti-establishment, non-conformist, and indifferent. Of course, generational labels are ridiculous. While my age cohort has a lot of cultural things in common, each of us is shaped by our own experiences. We, like every other generation, are not monolithic.
