From Jeff Gordinier’s “X Saves the World,” I present the Generation X Aptitude Test:
- Do you want to change the world?
- Yes, and I’m proud to say we did it, man. We changed the world. Just look around you!
- Yes, absolutely, and I promise I will get back to doing that just as soon as the interest rates return to where they’re supposed to be.
- Omigod, omigod, changing the world and helping people is like, totally important to me! I worked in a soup kitchen once and it was so sad but the poor people there had so much dignity!
- The way you phrase that question is so fucking cheesy and absurd that I am not even sure I want to continue with this pointless exercise.
That’s the only question, and you know what the correct answer is if you’re truly Gen X.