Finally, the Boomers’ Comeuppance Begins

I have an essay and letter I send annually to separate the Woodstock types from the guys I knew who joined the 58,000 named on black stone walls.

Celebrating Woodstock highlights the worst generation this country produced until it formed breeding pairs. This Baby Boomer vision ignored those qualities which made the United States the Arsenal of Democracy. Their parents were the Greatest Generation, but too few looked to emulate the noble character traits that saw parents through the Depression and WW II.

These same parents were responsible to the extent they applied the misguided teachings of Dr. Spock. His definition of common sense could not balance love and affection with requiring standards for behavior, self-control, and respect. For too many parents, common sense meant providing every advantage they had missed. In the process of catering to children’s feelings and preferences, they raised defiant, narcissistic offspring who viewed gratification as a right. Rather than examples to emulate, parents were merely vending machines required to fulfill material desires during a time of unimagined plenty.

These Boomers have an unprecedented focus on self. With them the divorce rate first exceeded the marriage rate, and there was first enacted a Federal Support Enforcement program to track deadbeat dads. Prior to the 60’s, syphilis and gonorrhea were the widely known venereal diseases, but the virulent strains exploded until only professionals could keep track. This generation achieved self-actualization through moral exhibitionism and militant self-absorption.

These Boomers adopted civil rights as their signature cause once the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law and expressed a popular virtue. This law was enacted just as the first Boomers graduated from high school, and therefore provided them numerous opportunities for costless compassion. The generations which achieved maturity in the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s were those who triumphed for human rights against formidable opposition.

Instead many chose to distance themselves from hard adult realities by calling this fight an immoral war, and thereby implied that they would be the first to volunteer for a moral war. However, the WW II veterans who were their fathers and grandfathers, related to these children through reticence or stories that service can only be a duty and never moral. Instead of recognizing their turn had come the Woodstock children sought safety by choosing to regard the war as an unjust, barbaric imposition. Jane Fonda and John Kerry were there to affirm this delusion by leading the mob which regarded those who served as lunatic, drug addicted, baby killing, fascist pigs.

When the Woodstock generation obtained position of power they sought policies of moral diversity/perversity and material comfort to transform the country into just another Gulag of apostasy, greed, and dependency. As they look to retirement, Boomers demand continuation of unsustainable entitlements in a manner freeing them from financial worries, and from the need to engage the specter of national bankruptcy.

Worse than their simple existence is the fact they begat through multi-generational psychological incest a legacy of ideologically mutant children and grandchildren. These Woodstock offspring have become popularly known as the “Snowflakes” of present times. These descendants are contra-educated to abhor the Constitution, the virtuous and valorous founding of our country, and classical liberal principles found in values of the Enlightenment. They are perpetual children are without essential humanity; empty, ignorant, feckless, emotional, overactive, and under challenged.

The Vietnam War gave the Baby Boomer generation a chance to sacrifice in a noble cause. Because here a small country (including ethnic Chinese, Catholic Vietnamese and others fleeing Communism), and newly free from colonial rule, sought United States help in establishing self-rule and the means of self-defense against a totalitarian neighbor (Tonkinese) bent on conquest. Instead many chose to distance themselves from hard adult realities by calling this fight an immoral war, and thereby implied that they would be the first to volunteer for a moral war. However, the WW II veterans who were their fathers and grandfathers, related to these children through reticence or stories that service can only be a duty and never moral. Instead of recognizing their turn had come the Woodstock children sought safety by choosing to regard the war as an unjust, barbaric imposition. Jane Fonda and John Kerry were there to affirm this delusion by leading the mob which regarded those who served as lunatic, drug addicted, baby killing, fascist pigs.

Regardless of what one's opinion might be of the Vietnam War, the outcome was a cataclysm for the people of South Vietnam. A decade earlier we fought the Chinese to a standstill in Korea. Who are better off today? The Vietnamese or the South Koreans?

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