Posted on 09/02/2013 9:33:16 PM PDT by ReformationFan
They were the royal children; the sons and daughters of the Baby Boomers who adored and spoiled them and promised them that life would be wonderful. They were designer babies with clothing and shoes that sported logos just like their parents.
Their parents were on waiting lists to get them into the right pre-school, they were given lavish birthday parties and extravagant gifts. They were trained and brainwashed and made to believe that getting into the “right” college meant success or failure.
They were given trophies and awards for playing sports whether they were accomplished or not. It didn’t matter if they were good, as long as they “tried”.
These 18-29 year olds from all across the economic spectrum were made to believe that the world owed them something just because they were “special”. It didn’t matter if they really were “special” or outstanding, it was all about self-esteem.
Many of these kids don’t know what real work is. Their work ethic is entirely different from the one that previous generations had. Just because your mom and dad said you were “talented”, “special” and “oh so smart” doesn’t translate to what an employer might think.
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“My Generation”
People try to put us d-down (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)
Just because we get around (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)
I hope I die before I get old (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
Why don’t you all f-fade away (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)
And don’t try to dig what we all s-s-say (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)
I’m not trying to cause a big s-s-sensation (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)
I’m just talkin’ ‘bout my g-g-g-generation (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
Why don’t you all f-fade away (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)
And don’t try to d-dig what we all s-s-say (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)
I’m not trying to cause a b-big s-s-sensation (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)
I’m just talkin’ ‘bout my g-g-generation (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
People try to put us d-down (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)
Just because we g-g-get around (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)
Yeah, I hope I die before I get old (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
I remember that song, what year did it come out?
Oh wow, I just looked it up-Wiki (for what it’s worth) says that 1963 is part of Gen X-that makes me feel younger, lol (for what it’s worth:) )
If you resent the Boomers you’re very likely an Xer.
What are you if you don’t know and never cared? Can I be one and still resent us? Can I be willing for my generation in general, not every person in it, to be at fault for something? I also don’t think the Jazz Age generation (not the war vets, the ones who were just young enough to have escaped that but still took on the cynicism for their own purposes) were nothing to write home about, though they didn’t have the same technological advances (I fault the pill, or rather the way it was used to fuel the “sexual revolution”) the boomers had (though the Jazz Age had other ones). Still, that generation managed to raise the kids who answered the call of WWII. I am not a historian and could never explain why it seems as though every age has had ots generation of rebellious youth, it all seems to have gone off the rails for good, in the Sixties. Maybe because for the first time, the advances were available to every class, not just the elite. A society can handle its elite having a small decadent element-it can’t handle every class opting out of responsibility. I know that sounds unfair, but life ain’t fair.
And I’m just throwing ideas out there, I’m perfectly willing to have them shot down. That’s how I see things I missed :)
Lots has been written about supposed cycles of generations through history, and I think you’re right about the Sexual Revolution in a sense sending the working and underclass off the rails—while the middle and upper-middle classes have survived it quite fine, thank you. Charles Murray has written along that theme.
I think younger generations now are more dependent upon their helicopter parents, which is just how their helicopter parents want it. But because they thus can’t afford to rebel against those parents in any meaningful way they both miss out on full adulthood and transfer that unvented resentment to their parents’ supposed ‘generation’ instead.
That’s because they are for freedom and so don’t want to make bad choices illegal.
And, of course, one of their one of their worst dreads is being seen as judgmental!
Too bad he can’t be DRAFTED and sent to a hellhole called Vietnam to be used as “cannon fodder” for the elites in Washington.Oh that’s right! That did happen to a lot of “boomers” didn’t it ?
The resident FR boomer bashers will be here before long. They represent the absolute worst in Gne Xers and milennials. They are all pissed because they want everything handed to them on a silver platter. And the losers like to call themselves conservatives.
“... all for the factory he worked at for 27 years get sent to Brazil and we aren’t even a union state.”
The government supported the unions, the unions supported the government, the enviro-nazis supported the government and the government supported the enviro-nazis and on and on and on.
We, the people of the USA can only blame ourselves.
I’m a War Baby, born 9 months after Pearl Harbor. My little sis was born in 1950 and is a Boomer. HUGE difference between between the two of us beyond those 8 years.
I joined the Naval Air Reserves early in my Sr. year of HS, went active a year later and served on a carrier in the catapults division. I earned my AAS, BBA and MBA while married with children, working full time and getting little sleep.
The little bit of money my parents had saved in hopes of me going to college after HS instead went to my little sister, since I’d joined the Navy. ...The newly built house my parents bought in ‘43 was 800 sq. ft. and the 30 year mortgage required monthly payments of $37!!!! ...I only mention that about the house to give younger FReepers an idea of the economy at the time.
Little sis was a little kid and pre-teen in the ‘50s and early ‘60s. She enjoyed the relative ‘booming’ of the economy of those years and went on to get her college degree, help her fiancee complete dental school and then live a life as a stay at home mom. She’s never known hardship. .......She’s been a good mom (kids now grown), but is a gun hater and a ‘greenie’. Only lives about 40 miles from me but we haven’t seen or talked to each other in 3 years because of our divergent views on politics. Sad.
Sorry to all for the long posting of some personal things, but was trying to illustrate that there ARE differences in people, depending on WHEN they were born and the circumstances that existed as they were being raised and schooled.
True, but remember what was said of the Gen Xers.
What I don’t think many realize is that we have the seeds of a revolution in the Millennials. No jobs, no money, no hope of a future.
well to be fair the darlings ARE working on reading an analog clock and writing in cursive....hey...Rome wasn’t built in a day and there’s plenty of distractions in mom’s basement not only that there seems to be no time line for gettin booted out of from in there...so..
I was born in 1956 and I really don’t consider myself a “Boomer” either. I think generations are defined more by events that define them. The Boomer’s was Vietnam. By the time I turned 18 the draft was over and the war was winding down. College radicalism was on the wane and pretty much gone by the time I graduated. It really was a different experience.
In a lot of ways, guys who went to Vietnam were more heroic than the “Greatest Generation” ever was. In WWII, it was easy to be a soldier. Everyone was behind you. The girls loved you. You were a hero. It was not so easy for Vietnam vets. And remember, the GGers were running the show during Vietnam. Enough said.
I was born in 1957 and am in no way anything like your sister. Your generalizing about when a person was born holds no water. Your comments only boost the boomer bashing that is prevalent here on FR.
According to the FR open border free trade club you father was supposed to retrain to do brain surgery after being freed up from mundane manufacturing work
I think that is what she said that her father was non union. It is the height of callousness to blame everything on the factory worker when 90 percent are non union.
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