Please, no more 1960s

The Guardian ^ | 6/9/04 | Jonathan Freedland

[qam1]

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[steve8714]

As a boomer, I have to agree..our generation is the most self-centered in history and will bankrupt this country when they start to hit 65. This is the generation personal websites were invented for because of the illusion that anyone really gives a flying crap about our "greatness" or "revolution. I hope the country survives us.

[steve8714]

As a boomer, I have to agree..our generation is the most self-centered in history and will bankrupt this country when they start to hit 65. This is the generation personal websites were invented for because of the illusion that anyone really gives a flying crap about our "greatness" or "revolution". I hope the country survives us.

[Servant of the 9]

exactly right

[Paul Atreides]

Except for the part about homosexuality and abortion, this is a great article.

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>>>>>To put the question simply: has any other generation ever banged on about itself more and with less merit?

Probably not.

[King Prout]

boomers... never has any generation crowed so much about accomplishing so little.

[GunsareOK]

Well, I do like the short skirts! Mary Quant ROUAWH bump!

[Agnes Heep]

I spent the weekend in Normandy with veterans of D-day, a group who can list saving the world among their collective achievements. They were studies in stoic modesty, depicting themselves as frightened lads who had only been doing their duty. Yet their children, the baby boomers, born at war's end, have no such reserve. They claim for themselves much greater accomplishments, constructing nothing less than a new society.

The baby boomers were to their parents as Commodus was to Marcus Aurelius.

[Graybeard58]

will bankrupt this country when they start to hit 65.

I suppose that you are just speaking for yourself. I am 58 years old and have been retired for almost 5 years (Not on social security) and I personally had nothing to do with starting and perpetuating the social security system that I assume you are referring to that's going bust when all us "boomers" hit social security retirement age.

Social security started before I was born. I have voted for conservative candidates since I have been old enough to vote.

I didn't do it Steve, if you want to accept responsibility for the mess, that's your call

[hispanarepublicana]

Uh, it's Gen-Reagan, now, according to Cinnamon Girl. Can you please add me to your Footloose-dancing, After-school Special-watching, Gen-Reagan ping list.

[hispanarepublicana]

Rush has a Gen-Reaganer on right now!!!

[Willie Green]

Next time you see the smug face of a 60s veteran, utter these two words: Englebert Humperdinck.

Why is this supposed to rattle me?
Humperdinck wasn't a Boomer. He was born in '36.
When his songs hit the pop-charts in '67, it was a clear vindication of the axiom "don't trust anybody over 30".
Jonathan Freedland has absolutely no idea what he's talking about.
Humperdinck was more popular with the Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dean Martin generation of music fans. Same with Ed Ames.

[hispanarepublicana]

All that the Boomers ever did for me was make the '70s atrocious to live through, make me watch "The Big Chill" in class and sing "All we are saying is give peace a chance" IN CHURCH (!!!), and then the same crowd that disavowed corporate America in the 1960's and '70s were hogging all the jobs just as I was getting out of college and looking for one. And then, they had the audacity to call me a SLACKER!!!

[Psycho_Bunny]

As far as I can tell, only two events of the 60s warrant any mention at all.

I was born and some guy walked on the moon.

>:P

[hispanarepublicana]

PS: They also earned me detention by filling my Elementary School English and "Reading" textbooks with stories by African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans, who seemed incapable of writing about anything BUT BEING African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans. I DARED TO ASK my Boomer Teacher why these writers were incapable of writing about anything but one issue, and I got detention.

[DumpsterDiver]

"sexual intercourse began in 1963"

Well, for some people, it did. (No names, please.)

imagining their bedhopping was a genuine innovation.

And for some people, bedhopping was never part of their repertoire.

[Billthedrill]

The 60's youth was the first generation that managed to fool itself into an assumption of moral superiority and actually manage to hang onto that illusion into maturity (if you can call it that). It's a sort of cultural arrested adolescence, and is the reason so many of them cling so desperately to adolescent politics, adolescent morality, adolescent self-images. It's the reason so many indulge in such grotesque behaviors as frying their epidermises on tanning beds and injecting bacterial toxins into their faces to prevent the honorable signs of age. And yes, I'm "talkin' about my g-g-g-generation..."

[KC_Conspirator]

Please add me to the Gen X list.