"Not shit sh*t again....."
"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.
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.......
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.
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.
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.
Obamas and the Clintons: Apotheosis of the Baby Boomer Generation.
Oh, I think it’s a particularly fine rant. A bit too general and it ignores that the WWII generation is responsible for worshipping FDR and raised these kids. As a kid in the 50s I was perticularly traumatized the the constant threat of nuclear war so I think the boomers can be forgiven a bit because we really didn’t believe we would survive past 1980 or so. I do know a bunch a whining liberal boomers who fit the description thoufh. But I also know people of all generations who have drunk the commie kool-aid and believe they are owed a comfortable life without having to work for it and expect the govt to solve all their problems.
Actually I think the WWII generation relies on govt more than boomers. Plenty of boomers I know are emphatically NOT like this. The AARP is the prime example of the WWII generation becoming looters of the clearest water.
Maybe if the word “boomer” was changed to “liberal” the rant would be more accurate.
Mommy didn’t nurse you long enough did she? Poor baby.
There were plenty of boomers who were conservative, despised the hole hippie - yippie thing, fought for their country, and tried to carry forward the principles of this nation.
And there were plenty of people born before the boomer generation who were happy to see the flowering of the seed they and their predecessors sowed.
Don't forget all the fellow travellers, the Reds of the thirties and forties, and before them the eugenicists and "scientific" types who viewed matrimony as a lingering remnant of an archaic religion.
Yeah, I'm a booomer.