"Not shit sh*t again....."
Posted on 10/17/2008 10:18:20 AM PDT by foutsc
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
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.
"Not shit sh*t again....."
Generalizing is not always good. Many of the things than happened in the 60’s had nothing to do with Boomers who were in their teens for instance.
I can think of so many radicals that were already in their 30’s during the hedonistic, drug-hazed 60’s (Kerouac, Leary, etc.) Even Bill Ayers, who has dominated the news so much of late was born in 1944. I was always of the understanding that the boom was post WWII and that would mean 1945 and on so even he missed it by a bit.
Frankly, as a college student at age 50 I see so much scarier stuff than anything, even the “tuning in, turning on and dropping out” crowd can’t hold a candle to these narcissistic kids who now worship at the altar of relativism and secularism.
If you think it’s rough on you guys, you should have taken the hit in the face with a frying pan we took in 1968. I have been a pair of brown shoes with a tuxedo ever since. I actually sat out an entire decade because I couldn’t reach anybody through the loud heavy metal noise or purple haze. No cheese required with the whine, but it was brutal.
I still get a stomach in knots when my son asks something about it (so does his father). We go pale and say something like they used to say on All Hallows Eve — put the food out on the doorstep and bolt the doors and shutter the windows — something evil this way comes.
Are you going full time? What are you studying?
But ignorance masquerading as truth is always entertaining.
Thats all I'll say about that.
Yes, obviously.
But what can we accomplish?
I would be careful painting with a brush that broad. I had a hard time being self-absorbed when I was flying ammo into a hot LZ in RVN, or teaching another pilot how to fly the weapons bristling North/South Korean DMZ, or facing down East Germans flying Russian helicopters across from the Fulda Gap in Germany. I never had a chance to party with any libertines who stormed the Bastille. I and many of my friends were too wrapped up in learning how to fly the latest and greatest (no thanks to Jimmy Carter) to gain the best advantage over whatever enemy may appear over the horizon. Just like any generation, including yours, there were and are good and bad citizens of this country. To characterize a generation one way or another is disingenuous on your part.
Oh great, another ignorant boomer basher. There must literally hundreds of threads on FR devoted to boomer bashing or threads that were hijacked into boomer bashing. And you post another one.......
*smothered laughter*
What kind of hysterical idiotic crap is this?
Blame an entire generation because some slackjawed strango is sitting in his basement in Hacksaw Arkansas distributing porn on his computer?
The government and this leadership has all but driven the country over a cliff...But hey, lets blame an *entire* generation.
Sure getting tired of these cry baby, whiny wimps attempting to blame their difficulties on the American middle class tax payers, who are screwed daily by this corrupt government.
Don’t worry too much about the Boomer Bashers...they just show how LITTLE intelligence and how MUCH ignorance they truly have with posts of this nature.
Relativism and secularism are the product of the 60s cultural revolution (gone pop). It's all about liberation: from the taboos of the church, from any type of restraint or moral authority. The outcome is a relativism which sees all authority as culturally bound and equal in status or truth. There is no supreme authority above man. Hedonism and the selfish pursuit of the self are the rule of the day -- pursue your vices unimpeded.
True!
The me generation helped raise the “look at me” generation.
While I don't disagree with a lot of this, I feel constrained to point out that the first Viagra commercials featured Greatest Generation icon Bob Dole.
“Down boy” funniset damn commercial
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