Generations come and go. Often it isn't until one is gone that the true scope of it's culture can be interpreted and defined. It is easy to see the negatives with the younger generations. Youth always expresses itself more with passion than wisdom. Older generations are strapped down by a life lived and struggle to reconcile their decisions against the sometimes irrational nature of the younger. Definition is often dependent on the extremes of each generation. The generation that sent man to the moon. The generation that fought world wars. The generation that discovered the world. As things get done, one might sit back and say that the best is behind and the future is bleak.
Often the rules we are taught are to avoid the short comings of generations past. To accept the wisdom that has proved to be true. These are based on assumptions about life that are not promised. If you could plan your whole life out, subtracting all the "bad", would you? Get married, have perfect kids, endless money, travel the world. If the world was your's how would you live?
I have always struggled with the status quo. Why do we all need to play by the same rules? Why should I care about money? Why define people by something they bought? Tyler said it best "Your not your f@cking khakis". Each day is a new day and will never exist again. Step up and be nice to someone for no reason, take care of your self, sculpt your life so that you walk around content with the fact that it could all be over without you getting a vote. You define your life, not some distant douche bag that will assign your generation a intellectual title. X Y Z? You don't know me Bro!