Whilst I agree with the general tone of the article, I dispute thoroughly its generalisation.
I don't lknow about Lisa, but I was there, born just after the war, and believe me I had a very strict, secular upbringing, and learned a whole heap of values, individual aresponsibility, and growing up among them. I am familiar with others of my generation who also did so.
You are missing the major point. Some of that generation bought into the crappy Humanism and post-modernism philosophy, took it to Universities, Labor Unions, the media and so forth, and made it grow like the noxious overpowering weed it is.
Those who could have poisoned and killed it before it got out of hand stayed silent or were silenced by the vituperative nature of our opponents. To this day there are writers who cant get published by mainstream publishing houses or newspapers because they write against the philosophy that is destroying our culture and our world.
So, dont try the "blame everybody" technique, look for the real cause. Otherwise you wont know what to use you anger to fight against.
Ditto -- don't assume that everybody born between 1945 and 1955 is a hedonist nitwit. Many of us were the first in our families to graduate from high school, let alone university, and we were impressed very early in our lives with this fact and with our responsibility to the world that came with our attaining the good things of the world. We passed this along to our children although the world made it tough, and we hope that they will do the same in their turn.
You hate being termed "slackers" and "Generation Why" as a lumpen group; give us the same consideration.
I basically agree with the article. In the same way we conservatives make generalizations about "all" liberals, this article makes the same generalizations about "all" boomers and equally about their parents.
Nobody believes it includes "everyone". I'm certain there are many liberals who can use a similar defense about their strict, secular upbringing. The truth is that, measured as a group or entity, liberals are polar opposites of conservatives and are "guilty" of our generalizations.
The article speaks in the exact same way about boomers and their parents generations, and if any of us are part of those groups, we should just take our lumps but mostly be grateful that we broke tradition from our peers and became part of the conservative majority of today.