Boomer Bust

Nietzsche is Dead ^ | 17 oct 08 | foutsc

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I guess I'm not the only one wishing Boomers would just shuffle off quietly to Hippie Valhalla. The whiniest, most self-absorbed generation is apparently wearing out its welcome among others as well. And with good reason.

This is the generation that brought us Viagra commercials on TV during family hours, introducing our youngsters new and interesting phrases. This is the generation that mainstreamed porn, marketed slutwear to our daughters and encouraged our boys to be pimps.

I know, boomers are not the authors of our current social dysfunctions, but they were the libertines who stormed Bastille, unleashing the corrosive social forces that made these dysfunctions possible. Oh, and then as grownups they agnostically market this trash to the masses in worship of the almighty dollar.

We are now suffering through the ill effects of the "anything goes, if it feels good do it" culture this adolescent, incontinent generation has foisted upon us. Our political, social and religious institutions are crumbling. The level of vulgarity in everyday life is unprecedented and our inflated sense of egotistical self-entitlement knows no bounds. Instead of building upon the foundation of the Greatest Generation, boomers took a bulldozer to it and left a giant Woodstock-like mud pit in its place.

Baby Boomer Richard Berry gives this irresponsible, self-indulgent generation a good lambasting in his latest American Thinker article.

The current market turmoil is a product of every bad trait the Boomer Elite has long exhibited in other social and political contexts: unbridled greed and hubris, exorbitant self-regard, breathtaking recklessness, insatiable appetite for immediate gratification, and a rollicking sense of entitlement.

Our efforts to be responsible citizens in this crisis are ridiculed and shouted down: exclude from the bail-out the pork and the payoffs to interest groups? How dare we! Include measures that might actually spur badly needed growth in the tough times now surely coming, like cuts in capital gains and corporate taxes? Leave the room!

This is all merely typical of the smug, cocksure Boomer Elite. This is a group that breaks things. It has set the wrecking ball to institutions that are the essential glue of our society (marriage and the family), the basis of our political system (federalism and the separation of powers), the engine of our prosperity (the free market), the guarantor of our freedom (the military), and the glory of our history (the Constitution, participatory democracy).

Unfortunately, we haven't heard the last of the Boomers, and they are sure to continue wreaking their self-righteous destruction for another 20 years or so. Meanwhile, we can only take solace in well-written pieces that lampoon this most worthless generation.

[Paved Paradise]

I just realized that my story made it look my the Black single mom gave 10x what the directors were MAKING but I see you got the gist; that she gave 10 x what they gave.

Duh - it’s late and I’m tired but can’t sleep.

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“If this doesn’t describe you then it doesn’t apply to you.”

Your diatribe painted all boomers with the same brush, so don’t give me that. Why don’t you search for one of the many other boomer bashing threads on FR and tack your whiny little comments on them?

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I am criticizing the generation, not every individual in it.

[foutsc]

Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I like ideas and I like conversation, especially when it involves differing points of view.

The Baby Boomer era did indeed usher in big changes for this country. Civil Rights and Women’s rights were about the only good things that came out of it. The rest is junk.

The problems featured in the news are just symptoms of a deeper problems. The deeper issues and ideas interest me more than the he-said, she-said of partisan politics.
Thanks for your story about hippies. I enjoyed it and I learned something.

I guess from now on I should just stick to “Gee, isn’t President Bush great!”