"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.
You know, instead of just mouthing your opinions, why don’t you back up your statements with actual facts. You are starting to sound like the Obama supporters: no substance to what you say.
Not only did we not start it but I don’t even believe MOST took the ball. The term Boomers is really a marketing term anyway and to even try and say that everyone born in the U.S. between the years 1946 and 1964 are somehow corporately responsible for “taking the ball” shows just how simpleminded you are being. For instance, take a woman born in Alabama in 1946 and compare her to a woman born in 1960 Los Angeles. How similar do you think they’d be in almost anything?
It’s patently ridiculous. Again, a marketing ploy. Sure, I think there are a host of cultural things that many of us can rhapsodize nostalgically over - for me these are things like roller skating; The Little Rascals; living in a time when the door was not locked at night; eating supper together as a family with no television allowed; thinking a TV Dinner was cool... I could go on and on. However, these are not deep philosophical or spiritual things that inform our ideals.
For every bra-burning, Woodstock attending, LSD-dropping person from this period, I bet I could find 10 to 1 who didn’t participate in any of this nonsense. And not only that, I would submit to you that many, many people that did these things were born in the 30’s and using this time as an excuse to do crazy things.
Do you think the 20’s were sedate? Do you think the stuff Poe, Shelly, Byron and their crowd were sedate? Be honest sir.