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
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.
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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