I don't have the answers yet, but I have learned enough to be dangerous, and ask better questions..

What is the X Generation, you wonder? Some say it's the generation that started after the Baby Boom generation, which seems to have officially ended (according to whom?) about 1960 or so. Generation X has been pegged at 1960 - 1977 - though some are giving it a shorter window of time. I am not sure about this, or how the people in authority get to be in authority to decide such things...but I was born in 1968 and I have noticed that I do tend to think rather differently than anyone born before about 1966. I have also noticed key differences in our demographics and likes, etc.:

1. Pop Culture: Many of my peers born in 1965 and before tend to be '70's reminiscers. They tend to love the disco era, pine for Aerosmith (before the 90's comeback), squeal over anything from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and generally remember the 70's with longing and nostalgia. My generation, on the other hand, tends to view the 70's with disdain as the time of particularly bad music, crappy clothes, worse hair, and dreadful films...until Star Wars came out. We were thrilled with Blondie, Gary Neuman, the New Wave music, followed by Alternative music, and punky hair and clothes.

2.  Career choices: Baby Boomers tend to be career ladder climbers, wanting stable and long term employment, company loyalty, benefits, and will work day and night to take down some corporate objective. Xers, on the other hand, value more egalitarian office arrangements, see that career advancement comes through movement within an industry rather than through a company, and regard anyone promising them the moon with a suspicious eye. The 'Demotivational Series' was created by an Xer, one who was likely turned off by the "Motivational Series" posters hanging on our Baby Boomer middle managers' offices. The 'Demotivational Series' accurately reflects the Xer view on the corporate world. They also reflect another Xer penchant: mocking the establishment, not like the Baby Boomers did, with protests, but rather with wry cynicism. Here's a good site to look at the Demotivational Series.
http://www.posters-artprints-pictureframes.com/demotivational-posters-1.htm
I like Strife, Idiocy, and Discovery the best.

I thought about why Xers feel the way we do about the world, which is radically different than the Boomers. Some of our sense of things has been passed along to the Yers. I came up with a sorely limited data set of events that would have shaped Gen X ideas on how the world REALLY works:

1. The Great Hippy Sellout: The Boomers were the generation that supposedly changed everything...
...and then went off to work in big corporations in suits, dresses, and BMWs. Even their biggest feminist went off and got married.
Moral: Everyone sells out their ideals. That's why the world will never change.

2. Big Corporate Downsizings in the 80's: Companies were supposed to take care of you forever in exchange for your hard work and loyalty, but then reneged on the deal when you hit your 40's and 50's, and were pretty much unemployable with just one company on your resume. Suddenly people with 20 years in one job couldn't find an equivalent position of "Middle Market Southwest Regional Communications Sorting Manager" in any other company (as they had also ejected such positions).
Morals: There's a severe penalty for company loyalty, and a worse penalty for getting boxed into some narrow and obscure position. You'll do better if you follow your career by getting promoted within an industry, and by taking jobs with recognizable titles like "Product Manager", "Director of Development", or "Marketing Specialist", rather than sticking it out with one company. Any title beginning with C (CTO, CFO, CEO, COO) is good. Even if it's a one-person company. Never trust anyone who says they'll take care of you.

3. The Collapse of the American Ideals in Politics: It used to be that to be American meant citizenship in a great country that put a man on the moon, a country powered by huge idealism...but during the 70's and 80's, American leadership lost its vision and instead moved to a "Hold and Defend" stance: keeping a nervous finger on the trigger that would blow up the entire  world, toppling third world leaders and installing puppet governments, and unmasking the first of many a crooked leader in the White House. Catsup becomes a vegetable, thanks to Reaganomics, and ICBMs are more important than education or healthcare. Homelessness becomes a new demographic.
Morals: In a choice between idealism and power....idealism never wins. People in power are always afraid of being cast out of power, so they always look to screw others.  It never fails...

4. The Happy Product with the Horrible Side Effects: Products with 'happy' and upbeat exteriors were made by corporations that pollute the environment, destroy third world countries, rob the planet of resources, demolish productivity in the name of progress, cause cancer or other unnecessary deaths, use slave or sweatshop workers, and are just generally bad for you. (Happy Meals, Wonder Bread, the Ford Pinto, Kathy Lee Gifford clothes, Campbell Soup, Microsoft Windows, 'Chocolate' phones, etc.)
Moral: Consumption is the new god, right up there with technology, but these gods demand horrible sacrifices on a massive scale, and nobody cares.

5. Simulacrum Becomes Reality: With no ideals to hold onto, and no strong leadership to follow, a hole opens up. The center is gone, life seems meaningless.... what will fill this vaccum? Hello entertainment industry and advertisers. Advertisers learned to create a new world where one was defined by the labels and brands one acquired rather than by any intrinsic quality. Xers, and Yers, following the Boomers' lust for material wealth, developed a strong sense that the 'reality' presented by TV and film is somehow MORE real, and is of course decidedly better than actual reality. Beaudrillard commented on this in his book on simulacrum. People then begin to invest more of themselves in the image of how life should be according to advertisers and TV and film producers, than they do in the actual life itself.
Morals: 1. Celebrities' lives are always better than mine, which is why tabloid magazines fly off shelves. 2. I'm all right as long as I drive a nice car, wear the right clothes, live in a good neighborhood...wait, do I have the latest 'insert heavily marketed product here'? OH NO!!!!! (insert profound post-modern angst here)

6. A ringside seat in the fall of Christianity in the US. Molestation scandals rocked the Catholic Church, while the fundamentalist Christian movement surged in the South, with its evangelical leaders taking their cue from Rasputin. Tammy Faye's spider-leg eyelashes bat at you on the TV screen, and masses of saucer-eyed followers spew syrupy exhortations of reverence and awe. Of course, Fundamentalist Christianity was also liberally peppered with a load of sex and financial scandals, which reverent followers seemed to somehow miss. Cults also developed, based on the prophetic zeal and charisma of some Jim Morrison lookalike, and sieze on the profound post-modern angst of number 5 above, convincing their followers to either open fire on the government, or kill themselves to be with the aliens.
Moral: God is dead, but can be successfully resurrected as another 'happy' product. See number 4 above for why this is a problem...

So, that's my brief and completely unprofessional opinion on generational differences, and why my particular generation continues to take the stance of the comedic playwright Aristophanes in ancient Athenian society - poke the establishment in the ribs while quietly undermining their power, and don't let 'em see you laughing.