I bought into the grunge movement big. The age group that was and still is maturing was looking for a way to cope with growing up in a more and more dysfunctional and violent society. Divorce, AIDS, and drug use have run rampant throughout society causing a repressive nature in our upbringing. Just say no, abstain, use protection. We are taught that everything is bad before it even becomes a thought in the back of our mind. At the same time we learn about how great the sixties were, and how much fun our parents had, but at the same time no blame is accepted by those same people for the results of their actions. Many of the results are those very things that plague our society today. And I was pissed about it. So was everyone else. And the music by our age group reflected that anger. A mass group therapy session for the generation that was suddenly labeled Gen X. We were told that we were slackers and would never amount to anything by the same people that were told the same thing thirty years earlier. As our demons were exercised, we learned new behaviors. A motivation to prove those who would label us wrong using technology that we also were the first to grow up with. While all of us sat at our workstations and played our video games, we became too occupied to complain and our music virtually collapsed. They failed the way we were told we would. So we worked harder and harder. And forgot how to deal with people. We turned psychological disorders into the new plague. Namely Social Anxiety Disorder. So we now take a new drug. Paxil. False happiness in pill form. All the lessons, the just say no bullshit, the AIDS scare is for naught. We've all ended up addicted to one thing or another. There are lessons to be learned here.