Greatest Generation, No...

But perhaps the most important. 

This article about Gen Xers made me emotional.

The world without question is going mad. And I think Gen Xers are just about the only reliably sane demographic left. We just need to do the thing we're most uncomfortable with: exercising authority.

PS - This is the part that got me: 

Inspired by the D.I.Y. ethos of the 1970s punk movement, artists decided that, in today’s online parlance, you could just do things. “The wave I rode up on was, ‘Even if all you’ve got is a ukulele, get up onstage and say your truth.’ It was like a post-punk testifying,” says Phair, whose debut began as three self-produced cassette tapes she recorded, under the name Girly-Sound, in her childhood bedroom. “There was a certain amount of, ‘If you have something to say, you’re as legitimate as anyone with all this money,’” she adds. Says Stephen Malkmus, 59, the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of Pavement, whose debut album, “Slanted and Enchanted” (1992), was made in the home recording studio of the band’s drummer: “Just being able to talk about your art in a smart way was as much as what it was itself. So you could have something a little threadbare and shoddy and held together by gum and string, but you could defend it intellectually. That gave me some confidence to maybe not be so professional.”