Part 2: Mark, GenX, and Why the 1980s Playbook Isn’t Cutting It Anymore
Meet Mark. Born in 1972. Age 53. Raised on U2, cheap beer, and the smell of sea salt from the ocean breeze. His parents? Half a world away emotionally. His grandparents? Together, performing their daily rituals with stoic survival instincts passed down like a cursed family heirloom. Childhood wasn’t about hugs. It was about not pushing the buttons on the spoken or unspoken rules, and figuring out that feelings were either weapons or liabilities.