The intermediate category "generation" provides a means to explore such complexities. In this chapter, shall demonstrate the workings of the sociological hence nation in postmodern times through a study of arguably nonexisting and peculiar intermediate social grouping called "Generation X." If in the last chapter our attention gravitated to the problem of wrong children and hence to the meaning of in postmodern times, in this chapter we shall attend especially to the problem generational "common destiny" and hence t the meaning of history as it intersects with biography. Although I focus on the phenomenon of Generation x, concern is really to discuss political and cultural significance of all post-baby my boomers-Generation X, Generation Next, Generation Dot Com, The Digital Generation, et cetera, ad nauseam and to situate this segment of the population within the historical social structures that define postmodernity. On this basis, we can then make sense of these phantom generational categories and suggest ways in which the use of the sociological imagination can help to define the political challenges squarely confronting today's "young.