Gen X here. We are the last generation born outside The Matrix.

Latchkey children.

We got sucked in like everyone else.

But we remember:

- playing outside, going in adventures with our friend, lakes rivers forest
- riding our bikes all day getting lost not coming back until sundown
- tv literally had to make a commercial “it’s 10pm do you know where your children are?”
- hanging out at the mall was cool
- cars with no seatbelts
- we got into fight, fell off bikes, broke our bones
- having to remember your moms and your girlfriends/ boyfriends phone numbers
- and you better have a quarter for the phone
- we owned our record and tapes and CD music collections it was cool
- it was always a threat that your mom could be listening on the other phone on the house
- you had to actually talk to someone face to face to get a date , no tinder
- free internet porn wasn’t crushing male sex drives and testosterone
- young people actually had sex just like your body is raging to do
- social media wasn’t sucking our attention and souls



We had youths

These children now are incubated.

Born inside the pods.