PJ is always right, except he never saw Generation X, (which I would now call “Generation Reagan”), who now has children in the military, guiding big-assed things, and voting when they get home.
This is still a great nation, despite ourselves and our peers.
I think of the boomers as “Generation Reagan”.
Reagan’s reelection of 1984 was the first election in which all boomers, were old enough to vote for president, for instance Palin was a Reagan girl, and he was her first presidential vote.
The Reagan years was also when the oldest boomers were old enough to be entering into the lower rungs of leadership, as a boomer born in 1946 was a 34 year old in 1980.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Fourth-Turning-American-Rendezvous/dp/0767900464
A book called “The Fourth Turning”. It was written a couple years before 9-11 iirc. It said the generation coming to age at that time was the same “type” of generation as “The Greatest Generation” - but would need an event like WWII to turn their drive towards doing great things together. And then 9-11 happened. However, I have a feeling that that “great coming together” that was kindled in the few years after 9-11 has come and gone. Islam is the religion of peace and all.
That said, they posit that we run through four generations; some weak, some strong.