Here’s how I think of it.
Boomers: The Satanic Generation, quite literally the embodiment of a multitude of sins that has effected the world negatively for generations.
Millennials/X: The Loser Generation, they had good opportunity but no guidance and so some did quite well and others didn’t.
Zoomers: The Sacrificial Generation, all the fuckups and kicking the can from the previous generations are coming to a head and now the Zoomers must be sacrificed so Boomers and Millennials/X can continue their gay retardation.
I think thats a little uncharitable
Boomers are the result of silent generation raising clashing and melding of post war modernity. Boomers seem too often to be perceived outside of their paradigm. Yes they did things disregarding consequences, it was the new modernity,
consequences did not exist anymore. Arrogant? Maybe, but that was the cultural paradigm of the time. This of course does not excuse any of that, nor their behavior after the fact, but calling them "the satanic generation" is uncharitable. He who would act well in unimaginable prosperity, throw the first stone.
When Gen x came, they partook and grew in that prosperity that still remained (this was the 80s mind you), but saw the beginning of the decline, the first inklings of the consequences the boomers assumed would never come, and thusly are less reckless and more conservative (in lifestyle) than their boomer forebears. Most of them are at the height of their careers now. Many of them have done quite well, even if the world they were able to start life in wasn't quite what their parents had. Yet, they fail to see that things have worsened even more, because they were able to get theirs before it happened, and are thusly insulated from the world around them, almost disconnected. If the sin of the Boomers is greed and egotism, the sin of gen X is apathy and insulation.
The millennials were raised in a world where the last of that prosperity petered out right at or before they entered the workforce. They grew up with a rich childhood, but one that changed to feeling the greater consequences of boomer meddling. They saw 9/11, and experienced the pains of the financial crisis. They saw the prosperity disappear in real time during their adolescence. When they grew up, both because of college radicals and their childhood, they raged agaisnt the boomers. How dare their parents take away (in their view anyway) that great prosperity? How dare their parents take away their children's success? They had access to new tools like the internet, and became even more aggravated as those above them could not even use this most basic and powerful tool. Thus, they chose to subvert, maneuver, polticize, as a coping mechanism to strike back at what seemed like a rigged and unfair game, and indeed they succeeded, as we can see from the cultural paradigm we live in now. Yet, they never really built anything afterwards. They rammed through their "generation 1" mindset without regard for the consequences, much like their boomer parents. The sins of the millennials are the destruction of culture, and hypocrisy.
That brings it to us zoomers. We never saw the prosperity, only heard about it. We never really got to experience the great cultural touchstones, since the millenials had subverted and deconstructed all of them. Now every generation has said this after all, in the words of Tony Soprano
"It's good to be in something from the ground floor. I came in too late for that, I know, but lately I've been feeling like I came in at the end, the best is over." Yet, this does feel like the hallmark of Gen z. Then before many of us even went to college, Covid happened, the world shut down for a year, taking for many of us a critical time in our adolescence, and forbidding any of us from socializing with eachother. Everything became hidden behind a screen, and that in of itself was incredibly destructive to young minds. Ask any zoomer, they'll tell you about at least one, if not several people they know that the covid shutdown changed, and how they never really recovered. Zoomers hide behind cynicism and irony, because there's no other way to engage in a world where there's nothing left.
TL;DR The boomers started the fire, Gen x didn't care to put it out, Millennials raged at the boomers, and tried to stop the fire by starting their own fire, and zoomers stand in the ashes of it all, unable to take anything seriously, because there is nothing left to take seriously
