(sigh) Where to begin? First of all, try to wrap the fact that the hippies were a relatively small minority of the boomers around your hatred. If I had to guess, I'd toss out a number like ~75% of boomers WEREN'T hippies!!
Most of the boomers I knew, hung out with or saw travelling across the country were pretty much like me - relatively clean-cut, straight-laced and trying to figure out what life was about. We didn't have the time or interest for any of that hippie nonsense. And, just because there are a lot of us doesn't make us an intrinsic evil in society. Let me ask you - you like the computer you're typing on? Thank a boomer. We didn't invent computers, but we did develop desktop and laptop computers. And, what about your DVD player? You like that? Thank a Boomer. The same with the VHS players that were the forerunner of DVDs, the Internet, cell phones; all of these are among the contributions to society made by boomers.
Boomers have ruined everything in this country — the church, government, medicine, science, movies, books, TV, the news, education — everything that makes America America. You name it, the Boomers have raised their collective leg on it and destroyed it.
Well, on behalf of all Boomers, allow me to apologize. I don't know which one peed on your cornflakes to make you so hateful and ignorant but here's a little thing you might want to consider while you point your finger at the Boomers: Your generation is responsible for 8 years of Clinton, 8 years of Obama, has the highest bankruptcy rate and is the slowest genweration to launch.
So, while you blame all you problems on the Boomers, remember that in about 30 years, your kids and their kids will be blaming you!
The Living Years lyrics
Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door
I know that I'm a prisoner
To all my Father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage
To all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
Crumpled bits of paper
Filled with imperfect thought
Stilted conversations
I'm afraid that's all we've got
You say you just don't see it
He says it's perfect sense
You just can't get agreement
In this present tense
We all talk a different language
Talking in defense
Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye
So we open up a quarrel
Between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future
It's the bitterness that lasts
So Don't yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective
On a different day
And if you don't give up, and don't give in
You may just be O.K.
Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye
I wasn't there that morning
When my Father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say
I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye
Wish I’d seen yours first. You said it so much better than I.
“Hateful?” Typical touchy-feely, Boomer-dominated public education Boomer-speak. Very Lincoln-Douglas Debates of you. (Oh, and your opening (sigh)... that’s a perfect example of why a Boomer can never win a debate.)
“Ignorant?” Please point to a factual error. And you didn’t offer one rational refutation to anything I posited.
And I didn’t say all Boomers are hippies. But all hippies were/are Boomers.
For your buddies on this thread who are chest-thumping about their military service? The Boomers are the ones who made sure their own country lost a war. Actually, two — Vietnam and, any minute now, Afghanistan.
Boomers are in charge of America, its government and its industry. Can you argue with a straight face they’re doing a good job?
They’re dragging us the rest of us into socialism. Unemployment is at its highest it’s been since the Depression. A committed Marxist — a Boomer — is President.
That’s on the Boomers.