Y fight back

I was born in 1989. Like many of my Y generation peers, I have only recently learnt what that means. I am subject to abuse. As I was born post cold war, I clearly have no idea what solidarity, fear and apprehension mean. Bullshit.

I just about clawed my way through this article today, which let me know that my generation is the first to have no impact on culture. My generation is letting the preceding streams of groundbreaking generations down. Well, let me tell you my perspective (not that I expect anyone to navigate to this page).

This article opens by calling the Y generation one of moaners. My generation suffers the gripe of twenty years of poor economic planning by the government. Despite never seeing a war on British soil, save a spate of terrorist attacks, generation Y has been given a voice by the

The article then attempts to hurdle music:

There really is no debate about the lasting contributions of the music of this era. Although everyone want to distance themselves from Vanilla Ice, which everyone in generation x agrees about.

Agreeing with this slightly, the Y has produced some extremely crass music. However, can I remind you of great artists from previous generations, such as Adam and The Ants? Despite producing an almighty cacophony of ''music'', our generation has had some musical poets shine through the insanity. In fact the point that our generation can be summarised by Fall Out Boy and pop-punk is offensive. Our generation has produced incredible artists such as Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Biffy Clyro et al - and that's just going through my music library alphabetically.

Next we are blamed for movies. Seriously? Generation Y has produced some of the greatest films of all time. Disregarding box office figures, which would invariably back this case, the incredible writing of some of the latest cinematic releases, twinned with the finest actors of all time have produced masterpieces. Pan's Laberinthe. Walk the Line. Memento. Léon. Requiem for a Dream. American Beauty. Criticizing the Y's films is easy when looking at the rubbish that has been produced by it, however beneath every Finding Nemo is a work of genius.

Reality Television? Has there ever EVER been any form of culture in that? Next...

Hmmm.... That's funny. The blog post stops there. It seems that the most culturally significant item has slipped this talented non Y-er's untainted grey matter. Whatever could it be? Literature? The Y has tried it's arse off to produce some quality reading. There are, as always, a few absolute gems produced by the Y (or at least what we have claimed as our own). Lionel Shriver directed an almost hypnotic piece named We Need To Talk About Kevin. If you don't own/ haven't read this yet, you need to. It is a masterpiece that would quite happily top any preceding epistolary novels. Alice Walker only trumps it due to the race card. Dan Brown has done his bit, producing nice holiday reads. We havn't had the time to really produce a Naked Lunch, but i'm sure, give it time, we'll have a few masterpieces put through the works.

The comments of this article are, therefore, utterly rediculous. Despite this post being based entirely on opinion, the other is also based upon opionion. I'll be the first to admit, the Y hasn't done as much as other generations, yet. We're working on it, give us some time. We're busy fighting foreign wars, sorting out the banking system, fighting off debt. The Y is occupied in saving the planet's cripped environment, fighting terrorism, saving the third world, being faster, stronger and more capable than ever before. The Y is indipendant, romantic, ingenious, sympathetic, yet retrospective. We have been subject to as much tragedy as any other generation, and wear our scars with pride. I'd go as far to say that for the next five or so years, the Y is unbeatable.