X Saves the World

<b>Read Jeff Gordinier's posts on the Penguin Blog</b> <p/>In this simultaneously hilarious and incisive manifesto for a generation that's never had much use for manifestos Gordinier suggests that for the first time since the Smells Like Teen Spiritbreakthrough of the early 1990s Gen X has what it takes to rescue American culture from a state of collapse. Over the past twenty years the so-called slackershave irrevocably changed countless elements of our culture-from the way we watch movies to the way we make sense of a cracked political process to the way the whole world does business.