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We suffer, said Seneca, more often in imagination than in reality.
The Stoic philosopher could have been talking about the generations.
Members of Gen Z, born between 1997 and 2012,
say that social media ruined their childhood.
Millennials between 1981 and 1996 complain that they cannot buy a house.
Baby Boomers, between 1946 and 1964, groused that they face an uncertain retirement.
Many forget about Generation X, which is made up of those born between 1965 and 1980.
Proxied by Google searches,
the world is less than half as interested in Gen X as it is in Millennials,
Gen Zers, or Baby Boomers.
There are few podcasts or memes about Gen X. Aside from Douglas Copeland's Generation X,
Tales for an Accelerated Culture,
a novel published in 1991 which popularised the moniker,
there are few books discussing the cohort.
In Britain,