Gen X and other generations are still alive! AKA We need to change Freemasonry’s paradigm!
Darin A. Lahners Is something wrong, she said Well, of course, there is You’re still alive, she said Oh, and do I deserve to be Is that the question And if so…if so…who answers…who answers… -Pearl Jam “Alive” A recent blog post by the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite declared millennials as the target generation for Freemasonry. (https://scottishritenmj.org/blog/millennials-and-freemasonry) As a proud Gen-Xer, I can only say that tracks. There is a reason that Generation X is called the “Forgotten Generation,” and the NMJ AASR just proved it. While the birth years might vary between definitions, I accept anyone born between 1965 and 1982 as a member of Gen-X. Generation X is nestled between the Baby Boomers and Millennials, with each of our neighboring generations having about 5 to 10 million more members. Generation X is often called the Latchkey Generation or the Feral Generation. Many of us, including me, came home after school and let ourselves into an empty locked house. This was due to being raised in single-parent homes or homes where both parents were working, and well before the days when there were ample after-school child care options. During the summer, we were often feral,