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.
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.
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.
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’.
Maybe kids today would be better behaved if we brought back “Duck ‘N Cover”. Contemplating nuclear incineration at a young age builds character.
The boomers were the last mass warrior generation, producing almost 9.5 million vets.
More than anything else, birth control pills launched the "sexual revolution".
For goodness sakes, people, after reading some of the comments, I have to say it wasn’t the Boomers that screwed up this country or the world! It was frickin’ liberalism that did that. Most of us grew up in good families, got jobs and raised our own good families. We paid taxes and played by the rules. In other words, we lived and live conservative lives. You can say the same thing for other generations as well. Lumping everyone into some kind of “ behavioral group” by year is damned foolish.