Andy Crouch highlights the “Generation-X Aptitude Test” on Culture Making:
The first question on the GXAT [Generation X Aptitude Test, better known as the G-zat] is this:
1. Do you want to change the world?
A. Yes, and I’m proud to say we did it, man. We changed the world. Just look around you!
B.
Yes, absolutely, and I promise I will get back to doing that just as
soon as interest rates return to where they’re supposed to be.C. Omigod, omigod, changing the world and helping people is, like, totally important to me! I worked in a soup kitchen once and it was so sad but the poor people there had so much dignity!
D.
The way you phrase that question is so . . . cheesy and absurd that I
am not even sure I want to continue with this pointless exercise.That’s the only question on the GXAT.
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This test is also quoted in X Saves the World — How Generation X Got the Shaft but can Still Keep the World From Sucking by Jeff Gordinier. It is a very funny book that just drips with Gen X bitterness.His aptitude test is the same but does not use the word “cheesy.” The language is a bit more colorful.. By the way Gordinier’s account of visiting “Woodstock 94” as an Xer columnist is pretty humorous in a dismissive, angry sort of way.