A simultaneously hilarious and incisive manifesto for a generation that's never had much use for manifestos. Gordinier suggests that, for the first time since the Smells Like Teen Spirit breakthrough of the early 1990s, Generation X has what it takes to rescue culture from a state of collapse. Over the last 20 years, the so-called slackers have irrevocably changed countless elements of popular culture - from the way people watch movies to the way they make sense of a cracked political process.