The young are forever in conflict with the old—just listen to Socrates bewailing Athenian youth: “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.” Them and the Millennials. And our already gaping intergenerational divisions have been deepened by the mix of a pandemic that threatened the old, and a lockdown that did special damage to the jobs of the young. But in the clamour to apportion blame for everything, from looming environmental calamity (the fault of those greedy Baby Boomers) to allegedly killing sex (thank you, risk-averse, porn-guzzling Millennials), one group is all but invisible: Gen X.