Baby boomers: the consciousness movement

Wthr ^ | 7.11.11

[InvisibleChurch]

just tossin' it out there

[familyop]

Today was a day to run an errand for supplies in the nearest town: a tourist stop. Baby Boomers of about 60 years of age and older were finely dressed, well rested and driving new vehicles. Those under 60 were driving old vehicles, wearing rags and looking tired. Along the way, people of foreign cultures were in construction areas on the highway, holding signs or holding tools.

[Jack Hydrazine]

A FReeper posted recently a study that showed women are more miserable now after women’s lib than before.

Men are more irresponsible since sex, marriage, and divorce are so easy these days.

Each proceeding generation seems to stay more childish for longer periods of time resulting in adults acting like a bunch of idiotic, unmotivated, visionless children only concerned about themselves. Now it is to the point where the children aren’t leaving mommy and daddy (or daddy and daddy or mommy and mommy) and staying home instead of starting their own lives and living independently.

Some things the Baby Boomers were okay but other things such as the 1960s counter-culture, free love, STDs, moral relativism, and such have thrown our society into such chaos I’m not sure how long it is going to recover from that social FUBAR.

[MrEdd]

Odd how pundits and academics can never agree from month to month, year to year just when the babyboomer generation started.

In my reading for decades most (but not nearly all) pundits considered the war babies born in the wake of pearl harbor to be the start of the boomers. In the last couple of decades you don’t see that window as often (although you do still see it).

All of this conspires to make the term rather meaningless.

[screaminsunshine]

Well there is a Cockeyed Moon rising.

[Tigermoth]

Those born between 1960 - 1964 used to be called ‘tweeners’ rather than boomers. They were considered to be those born between the baby boom ‘boomers’ and the baby bust ‘busters’.

[Thrownatbirth]

Maybe kids today would be better behaved if we brought back “Duck ‘N Cover”. Contemplating nuclear incineration at a young age builds character.

[familyop]

"Well there is a Cockeyed Moon rising."

Yep.

[screaminsunshine]

Have you seen it?

[familyop]

"Maybe kids today would be better behaved if we brought back “Duck ‘N Cover”. Contemplating nuclear incineration at a young age builds character."

I grew up in a very conservative area near a large Naval Air Station far from the east and west coasts, so we weren't traumatized by that.

[familyop]

But then I’m well under 60, too.

[familyop]

Have I seen it? To be honest, I didn’t have a clue as to what you were referring to. Is it a movie?

[familyop]

And no, not too young to have participated in the air raid drills every month. There were many, and they are easy to remember. They were a short break from class. ;-)

[screaminsunshine]

No the Moon tonight. Take a look.

[Thrownatbirth]

We always lived within five miles of a Polaris submarine base. The nuns told us first graders we didn’t have a prayer of making it to the fallout shelter in time.

[Major Matt Mason]

I've seen three different versions of what I'm supposed to be - a Boomer, a Tweener, and the vanguard of the Gen X'ers. Best of three falls, so I'm officially not a Boomer, thank goodness.

[ansel12]

Along the way, people of foreign cultures were in construction areas on the highway, holding signs or holding tools.A

That is the result of the 1965 Immigration law of JFK's that was pushed through after his death. The oldest boomer on the planet was 19 then.

[ansel12]

You are a boomer if you were born from 1946 to 1964.

[ansel12]

Some things the Baby Boomers were okay but other things such as the 1960s counter-culture, free love, STDs, moral relativism, and such have thrown our society into such chaos I’m not sure how long it is going to recover from that social FUBAR.

The 1960s was a creation of the "silent generation", born 1925 to 1945. Think the Beatles, the Doors, Jane Fonda, the Chicago Seven, William Ayers, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, etc.

[familyop]

I have noticed a few things in the sky that seem different, lately. ...will search around and look into it. Thanks.