Why Gen X Doesn't Trust Institutions

They called it cynicism. They called it apathy. They said your generation didn't care about anything. But you were paying attention the whole time — to Watergate, to Three Mile Island, to the AIDS crisis, to Enron, to 2008. In this video, we look at the psychology behind Gen X skepticism: where it really came from, what it actually built, and why the generation that stopped trusting institutions ended up running most of them anyway. If there was a moment growing up when you realized the people in charge didn't have it as together as they claimed — drop it in the comments. The year, what happened, what shifted. Because this generation has a long memory, and it's worth comparing notes.