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.