One thing I do find curious, just like the author, is that I don't see that many people figure out where Generation X - that is, people born 1965-1984 - fit into the equation. Back in my high school days I remember reading a lot of literature whose main theme was the generation gap between *that* generation and the Baby Boomers.

As a matter of fact, I notice in everyday life that whereas both Boomers and Gen-Yers tend to think very much in terms of high-minded abstract ideals, Gen-Xers value everyday common sense and a type of post-modern folk wisdom more when it comes as a foundation for their worldviews. In other words that they are more skeptical of the "grand ideological narratives" that the Boomers are perceived as having lost faith in and a lot of us Gen-Yers/Millennials seem to be in the process of re-constructing as displayed in something like the Occupy Wall Street movement.

This article touches on some of the same points, and also adds that much of the most influential art from the last many years was distinctly the work of Generation X's distinctive zeitgeist outlined above - making it so interesting that Gen X gets lost in the shuffle during the formation of that grand narrative. Perhaps generation gaps are just more readily apparent among artists than the rest of the population? See also people born *during* WW2 getting lost in the shuffle when it came to the Greatest Generation/Baby Boom culture clash in the 1960s/1970s...