Comment by tres

I believe the Jesus Jones song, "Right Here, Right Now" has become an ironic commentary on Gen X; in that brief moment in the 90's when we thought the nuclear sword of Damocles dangling over all of us had finally been cut down...

Not a great song, but one that expresses the zeitgeist in a pretty succinct way.

We thought that we were at the cusp of a new era... one where we could overcome the injustices of the past and author a future based on the best version of ourselves.

In the end, Gen X never even got a chance to start; we watched from the sidelines as geriatric Boomers clung (and still cling) to power -- leaving less and less of that (ever more naive) dream behind.

"Right here, right now,

there's no other place I'd rather be.

Right here, right now,

watching the world wake up from history."

The song hasn't aged well & has become a cloy reminder of that time and what we didn't become.