>movies like "dazed and confused" and "wet hot american summer"
>are about transferring and communicating that experience from
>people 'making' the culture to the people defining what their
>generation means at the time. dazed and confused wasn't for
>linklater's people. wet hot american summer wasn't for the
>people who went to high school will the folks on the state.

So you define a generation by the films/shows made by people from the previous generation about their own generation as long as they touch on timeless feelings/emotions that can be felt by EVERY generation?

Generation X is around 1965 to 1981. By your definition, a show like Happy Days is a Gen X show. Wonder Years is a show that Gen Xers watch but that doesn't make it the definitive Gen X show (since it doesn't define Gen X at all).

The bottom line is that if someone watches Dazed and Confused, That 70's Show, or The Wonder Years, it doesn't really tell them anything about Generation X or the time they lived in.

EDIT: Also, I didn't follow your first link. Chuck Klosterman is Gen X. Do you think he didn't like those movies? Do you think Gen Xers don't enjoy his writing?