Born June 29, 1945, I was too late for the war in Europe but I was the co-pilot of the Enola Gay.
Here's a picture of me right after I made that bombing run:
Posted on 10/17/2008 10:18:20 AM PDT by foutsc
Being a hippie was great! I got myself a pawnshop guitar, learned three or four chords, and taught myself to play half a dozen songs the chicks wanted to hear. Then, I taught myself to be a good listener of the “That’s cool, man” and “Groovy” response sort. I lived out of my van for three years and got to see a lot of the country. Most of the time I went from one shack job to another. One morning I woke up, it was the mid seventies and the sixties were over. So I went to law school.
Don’t pick on Boomers so much, pal. Someone like me could be your dad.
I'm afraid it goes back a little farther than the 60s - about 5000 years further back.
Unhappy with your life?
"Sometimes the truth hurts."
so your saying in the end you sold out.
glad you were not my dad.
Um, I didn't vote for Chuck Schumer and never would (or Hillary, for that matter). What's your point?
OK, how does Elitist Boomers sound? Or maybe Liberal Boomers? Does that narrow things down enough?
It’s a wise child that knows his own father. -—Euripides
Actually, I'm quite happy with my life, just concerned at the direction the country, now firmly in the grasp of Boomers, seems to be headed. You can't keep blaming every problem in this country on previous generations, though they played a part. The Boomer generation is large enough that the good ones should be able to cancel out much of the bad ideas of the bad ones. But that doesn't seem to be happening. Why is that?
Yeah, but 5000 years ago it probably didn’t go pop.
Doesn't matter if you voted for him or not. He's the face of New Yorkers for me. Wear the badge proudly & quit "running away from blame". "Sometimes the truth hurts."
Sorry, but this country is about to elect a near-Marxist as our president. I don't recall previous generations doing this, though some might argue that FDR may have fallen into this category. The last time I checked, the largest and most vocal generation in the history of this country is firmly in control of the levers of power, whether those levers are located in D.C., on Wall Street, in our universities, or in the corporate boardrooms of America. I'm not seing much conservatism coming from those sectors, sadly. If there is a large number of conservatives in the Boomer generation, where are they hiding?
BTW, Personally I am delighted the Major has stepped up and personally guaranteed that his generation will clean up the mess as soon as the Boomers are out of the way.
Being one of the very last boomers I should still be around to benefit from his success.
If this doesn’t describe you then it doesn’t apply to you.
Our current state of affairs is only the latest symptom of a deeper problem that has roots in our culture and institutions and our attitudes towards them.
You can fix the banking industry, but how do you fix a society?
Haven’t you heard? Obama is counting on the votes of first timers to put him over the top. How do you explain that?
You are wrong. They may have become very popular in the U.S. during the 60’s but they are NOT a product of it. These things had been brewing for along time.
Frankly, in my opinion, many of the philosophies and ideologies that were promulgated and glorified during the 60’s and even the 70’s have their roots in philosophies and worldviews that were on the scene even a hundred years before. Think of Blavatsky or check on Max Nordau’s bestseller of the 1890’s, “Degeneration.”
Most of this stuff is nothing more than Satan’s lies packaged and repackaged for each new generation; it’s the same old garbage however.
As for hedonism, that’s as old as man himself and so is the belief that man is the supreme being.
The worst of your cohort has joined up with the worst of mine to to work against everything I believe & I assume everything you believe.
It's why I used your state in the way that I did earlier. I used a different grouping than cohort & then made a generalization about members of it. I know the generalization that I used was silly, but it's not any sillier than generalizations based on artificially created age groupings.
Born June 29, 1945, I was too late for the war in Europe but I was the co-pilot of the Enola Gay.
Here's a picture of me right after I made that bombing run:
I suggest the problems we now face has been in the making for a long time. From Marx and Engels, through our own Lost Generation of the 20's and 30's, up until the overwhelming relativism of the youngest generation coming into its own today. It won't all go away when us "boomers" ride off into the sunset. I'll say it again, don't paint with so broad a brush.
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