Posted on 06/21/2009 5:28:54 PM PDT by JoeProBono
As a BB myself (although barely — b.1964), I say “FAIL.”
May I suggest human nature?
Any very large group of people, born into certain circumstances, will act pretty much the same way.
Lots of kids, lots of money, rapid technological advances, the seeming security of a traditional culture....trouble was coming, but society could not see it coming.
I remember our high school social studies teacher, a PhD and a socialist, saying to a group of high school students in 1969 that most of the girls would be married and have children by the time they were 25. Even highly educated people who wanted change could not imagine the change that was to come. It takes a lot of imagination to see the possible consequences of seemingly benign ideas.
Why? What generation are you?
We’ve (I’m a 51 model) much to answer for I’m sure, but I’ll hasten to point out that the ones who got all the press were not the whole generation. Many of the people who used us as political pawns when we were dumb kids were members of what has been beatified as the ‘Greatest Generation’ (Timothy Leary, Herbert Marcuse etc.) Please don’t think I don’t have reverence for what they accomplished and endured because I do, but spoiled and hedonistic as many of us boomers were (mea culpa), we were not the creators of the leviathan state which has become such a monster in our time. When I measure myself with men like my father, I find myself wanting in so many ways, but I’ve known many my age who could have played in his league.
Ah, the boomer generation.
The generation that received the “better life” our folks worked and fought for — and then, as a group, squandered it. Turned away from God, (worse) turned our CHILDREN away from God, squandered the blessings of liberty and freedom our parents gave us and taught our children to squander them too.
I’d grade us an “S”. It can stand for “we Suck”, “Spoiled”, “Spendthrift”, “Secular”, “Stupid”, “Shortsighted”, your pick.
And, yes, I’m right smack in the middle of that very UN-greatest generation.
Please don’t take my rant personally — of course I’m generalizing. Like a lot of freepers I’m trying hard NOT to fit the mold. But I can’t deny that my generation as a group lacked the character and wisdom of the one that came before.
That's exactly what I was thinking about myself.I consider myself to be basically "respectable" (by today's standards,at least) but I could not now...and have never been able to...hold a candle to *either* of my parents.
>> I consider myself to be basically “respectable” (by today’s standards,at least) but I could not now...and have never been able to...hold a candle to *either* of my parents.
+1
Boomers were in fact the worst generation. Not being one, I feel free to call a spade a spade.
Ugh... where to begin. The boomers were the worst thing that ever happened to the USA. They contributed nothing and laid waste our future because of their failures as human beings.
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