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 Spirit?breakthrough 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 ?slackers?have 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.
