12-29-05 I’m teaching a unit on Malcolm X & Frederick Douglass to my high school juniors… and the following week I am discussing the extent to which we may expect Gen X to save the world – or at least America…
Harmonious convergence. (I have no idea what harmonic convergence means.) It just falls together. The X as the signifier of choosing one's own identity, rather than mindlessly accepting that which was otherwise thrust upon us.
Gen X seems to lack the identity that the generations before us had – the defining moments, the character-forging experiences – so we have to create it for ourselves. We also have to create the world for ourselves – to change it for the better, even though so many of our age-mates don’t think that’s even possible.
We are making it on our own, and yet not quite stepping up to leadership in the ways we will need to in the very near future. (Name a few prominent Gen X leaders who are not entertainers!) Leadership will be the next important step for us...
How old is Barak Obama?
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Look to some of the pioneers of the information age. There are many things going on in Tech, that will be just as impactful on the country and the world as the civil rights marches were.
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