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Perhaps I'm the only one out here who thinks Generation-X bashing has lost its sheen of originality, but that's just what Kinsley indulges in with his reference to the "particular generational self-pity" of Gen-Xers.
Then Schmidt retreats from us, lost in a cloth that Begley throws over him, and what began as a sharp examination of public restraint and private release dwindles into a self-pity which seems not merely Schmidt's, but Begley's.
“I felt right from the start [that] if I wallowed in self-pity about being fired and having my belongings piled in the gutter that I would never understand why all these things were happening.
Since losing the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the Serbs have been "seasoned haters raised on self-pity."
But, because it serves their particular generational self-pity, Gen-Xers seem more willing than older folks to grasp the essential truth about Social Security, which is that it is a Ponzi scheme.