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Boomer Bust
Nietzsche is Dead ^ | 17 oct 08 | foutsc

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 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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: boomers; generations
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To: lasereye

Yes, in fact I am going full time. My friends told me I was crazy to do it. Crazier still - I plan to teach. We need more conservative teachers. Sadly, the public school system is overrun with liberals. If I get a job after graduation, I hope to be teaching language arts or science to 6-8 graders.


41 posted on 10/17/2008 12:22:42 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: Paved Paradise
Well if you trace the sixties back you can see the influence of the German immigrants — mostly professors escaping the Nazis — who brought Nietzsche, Weber and Freud to unsophisticated America. Nietzsche was always the darling of artists and the self obsessed. But relativism and secularism goes back to the beginnings of philosophy and Greek culture. Socrates was put to death for not believing in the city's Gods (he preferred Reason over Revelation) and there where many sophists in Athens who believed in relativism. Plato addresses the problem in a number of dialogs — the most famous perhaps is Protagoras, who states “man is the measure of all things.”
42 posted on 10/17/2008 12:23:44 PM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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To: skeeter

I will have to add a rousing “amen” to that myself. There absolutely IS nothing new under the sun.


43 posted on 10/17/2008 12:24:15 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: skeeter

I’m an early boomer — almost 60 now —

Oddly, I guess, I never once participated in any of the 60’s/70’s antics. I started working right out of high school — at age 17. While marches against Viet Nam carried on, I was at work. The (older) boss said I was part of the “establishment” which never bothered me at all but was a real insult to some back then.

I recall the march in L.A. against Viet Nam war when Lyndon Johnson was visiting. All dressed up I went over to the site after work just to see what was happening. It was horrifying. I did not relate to my so-called peers at all.

My like-minded friends and I have never felt a part of the typical boomer generation. Always said we were born too late; would have preferred being born in the early forties.

I watched with amusement as many same age people grew up a bit and out of the “hippie” stage and became the great consumers boomers have been known to be for a long time. A few “hippies” remained the same — one is a relative of mine. Always a misfit, a real failure, always on the dole. Pretty pathetic.

So please don’t lump boomers together in any way — everyone had a different experience and it’s unrealistic to talk about boomers as if we are all alike. Nothing could be further from the truth.


44 posted on 10/17/2008 12:35:23 PM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: Blind Eye Jones

You are making MY point. I am sick and a little weary of people trying to trace “every problem under the sun” back to the boomers. I know a lot of bad stuff came out of the 60’s but it was not invented by boomers and many never embraced the lies of the 60’s. However, as you state yourself, these ideas are not new. Certainly a lot of the boomers were brainwashed by the colleges they attended and those profs were no boomers, my friend.

As a side note, the Jesus movement started in the 60’s as well and took on full steam in the early 70’s. That was a good thing.


45 posted on 10/17/2008 12:36:26 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: ladtx

Thank you for your service. You have my deepest gratitude!


46 posted on 10/17/2008 12:37:56 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: Blind Eye Jones
Well if you trace the sixties back you can see the influence of the German immigrants

Boy, have you got that right. I don't think there is any city in the nation with more German influence than Milwaukee, up until the Mid-Western "Rust Belt" decline of industry in "America's machine shop" & the emigration following the loss of a lot of the city's big employers to parts in the South.

The first Socialist sent to the House of Representatives (Victor Berger) was from Milwaukee, a city that had a Socialist mayor (Frank Zeidler) who served three terms from 1948 to 1960.

47 posted on 10/17/2008 12:40:06 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: dragnet2; foutsc

Boomers mainstreamed porn?

Uh, ever hear of Hugh Hefner, the man who launched the mainstreaming of porn? He was born in 1926. Hardly a Boomer by a long shot; in fact, if I’m not mistaken, he would be considered one of the “greatest generation,” yeah, right.

Another great in the halls of porn is Larry Flynt, another pre-Boomer.

Seriously, now, have facts to back up your claptrap Mr. Foutsc.


48 posted on 10/17/2008 12:40:48 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: Major Matt Mason

Uh, earth to Major Mason, earth to Major Mason:

If, and if, Obama gets into office, one of the biggest reasons will be the youth vote which they have worked very hard to get out this year.... so if we end up with a socialist for POTUS, I’d say they can take a big chunk of the blame.

Quit your bellyaching about Boomers. What year were you born?


49 posted on 10/17/2008 12:43:52 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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Does that narrow things down enough?

You would think so, but you probably ought to ask the people who keep pitching a fit every time "boomers" get slammed.

My "boomer" parents slammed "boomers" while I grew up, however, so I don't have any problem with it.
50 posted on 10/17/2008 12:44:23 PM PDT by beezdotcom
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To: skeeter

Precisely. Being a full time college student myself, I can vouch for that. The only solace I will have if Obama gets in office is that the little brats who all voted for him are going to have a heck of a time getting jobs post graduation which will happen during Obama’s “reign.”


51 posted on 10/17/2008 12:45:16 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: Graybeard58

Aww. Look at those beautiful eyes. They look blue. I know it’s not color but blue eyes look different in B&W photos.


52 posted on 10/17/2008 12:46:17 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: ladtx

Well said.


53 posted on 10/17/2008 12:46:46 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: Paved Paradise

Thank you and believe me, it was a true honor to serve this country.


54 posted on 10/17/2008 12:47:26 PM PDT by ladtx ( "Never miss a good chance to shut up." - - Will Rogers)
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To: ladtx

You are why our military wans and remains so great. I’ve heard people bash our military and that gets my “Irish” up for sure.


55 posted on 10/17/2008 12:50:02 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: ladtx
I had a hard time being self-absorbed when I was flying ammo into a hot LZ in RVN

Hey, I am not part of the problem either, but I don't take it personally when folk point out what I have said about my fellow boomers for a long time.

56 posted on 10/17/2008 12:54:34 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: CaliforniaCon
It was horrifying. I did not relate to my so-called peers at all.

As a child I too had a gut reaction to leftists that has not changed.

Question is how a minority of leftist wackos could become so over-represented in society today. I don't really know why - perhaps those with a totalitarian bent are drawn to positions & professions which have authority & influence over others, while the typical conservative minded American - obviously the majority in every American generation - seeks only to take improve himself and take care of his family.

57 posted on 10/17/2008 12:58:09 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter
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.

Yes, and it is going to be a pretty big mess to clean-up, from the looks of things. Maybe the non-elitist Boomers can pitch in, if they really care. Sadly, I'm not seeing much of that in this thread.

58 posted on 10/17/2008 1:00:09 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (A happy member of the New Media.)
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To: Major Matt Mason
Maybe the non-elitist Boomers can pitch in, if they really care. Sadly, I'm not seeing much of that in this thread.

If you could see me through your flat panel you'd know thats simply not true.

To infinity, and beyond!

59 posted on 10/17/2008 1:03:17 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Paved Paradise
I know a lot of bad stuff came out of the 60’s but it was not invented by boomers and many never embraced the lies of the 60’s.

"We didn't start the fire", eh? Maybe the Boomers didn't start it, but they certainly have taken the ball and advanced it to the goal line. Obama will do a QB keeper over the top to finish the job.

60 posted on 10/17/2008 1:03:46 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (A happy member of the New Media.)
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