Posted on 06/10/2004 9:21:50 AM PDT by qam1
Add me to the ping list too!
"I hate the Sixties"... heh, heh, heh.
I do hope that comes to a TV screen near me soon. I'd enjoy watching it with my parents (Boomers both), although I have a sneaking suspicion my mother would get snaky and stalk off after my first cackle.
"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)."
Noooo..... the scariest thing was that they managed to fool their ELDERS into thinking that 'the kids' were the wise ones... that authority was illegitimate... the keepers of the civilization just threw wide the doors to those who wanted to trash it. And trash it they did.
Who the heck is David Bailey?
Me too! I'd LOVE to see that.
I'd like to see that too. Unfortunately here in America we are also going to have a baby boomer love fest T.V. special called "Boomer Nation" and they are going to praise Oprah Winfrey as being the ultimate boomer.
I do hope that comes to a TV screen near me soon. I'd enjoy watching it with my parents (Boomers both), although I have a sneaking suspicion my mother would get snaky and stalk off after my first cackle.
Good Luck, I love to show my baby boomers parents, Though they know their generation was screwed up (but they still think the WWII generation was the worst) so they wouldn't be too pissed off about it, If I laugh I already know what my mother would say which is what she always says since I was in Kindergarten when I bring up the Baby boomers which is "Hey, We are the reason you were allowed to wear blue jeans to school"
I guess fighting for and winning the right for kids to be allowed to wear blue jeans to school is the Baby Boomers biggest accophishment according to my mom. But I guess that's where it all started, If the WWII generation didn't give in the Baby boomers wouldn't have been egged on to protest later.
I read that one, too. I have pretty much the same memories as she listed. Reagan was the first president I voted for. I was in college and remember stagflation and gas lines.
By strict definition and by many measurements, I am a Boomer. But by CG's definition, I am Gen Reagan.
I'm just afraid that if I say I am Gen Reagan, everyone will substitute "Gen X" and take me for a spoiled-rotten slacker.
OTOH The Xers get to trot out Clinton as a boomer (he was leading edge) as well as the then-important-now-self-important overaged hippies so emblematic of the Boomers.
I'll wait and see how the defintion emerges. If it makes any Gen-Xers feel any better, I am not figuring on seeing a dime of Social Security that I have contributed into for 25 years and will have put in almost 50 years before I am done.
And yes, Gen-X is viewed as slackers. Its Gen-X kids that seem to be getting their act together.
You are both added, Welcome to the ping list
I just counted the number of people on the list and there is now 105,
Wow! I never expected to have that many when I started the thing.
And only one drop out so far(Well really 3 but the other two left freerepublic entirely).
Anyone know the freeper ping list record?
I rest my case.
1967 was the last full year my parents were together before divorcing. I (an only child) turned 6 (and both my folks 30 fwiw) that summer of love. We always had the local MOR station on in our house. On which I remember hearing songs such as Ed Ames's "My Cup Runneth Over" and Al Martino's "Mary in the Morning". Plus Petula Clark's "Don't Sleep in the Subway". I always associate songs like those with '67 than "Sgt. Pepper", which I didn't hear for the first time until around 1970.
foreverfree
Somethin's happen here, boomers are getting theris!
Some Gen-Xers were "slackers" because there was a block on hiring "young kids". When I got out of school, they were asking for 2-5 years experience.
What were the boomers in the late 1960s who didn't work when they got out of high school/college? Drifters? Free spirits?
"Has any generation in history ever banged on about itself more and with less merit than the baby boomers?"
This is all I need to see! This is what I've thought for ages - well, specifically the "real" baby boomers of the Hippie Generation.
They've celebrated themselves forever, in public. I get so sick of all the self-righteous "yeah, those protests were great about independence and free speech and not conforming to a selfish greedy society", that frequently appears on movies and TV shows, etc.
Truth is they are the Selfish Generation. Yet immediately they had the *gaul* to tag the slightly younger crowd the "Me Generation" (Disco Gen, or officially the latter part of the baby-boomers). It was THEY who were the G-D "Me" Generation. All that sound and fury about how great they were and loving and caring and freedom-loving signified nothing. It was BS.
Hey Gray, don't take it personally! ;-)
We ARE generalizing, but any idiot knows not every individual person of the subject generation was either at all involved in any of the '60s mess, or that even that 1 generation did everything that was ever bad/wrong (SS) in the world! ;-)
Hey, these are great singers!!!! >:(
Yeah, and in my case those happened in the same teeny month!
The majority of us went to Viet Nam when our country called us. The majority of us had to work immediately during and after high school because we did not have elistist mommies and daddies that could sent us to college. If we did go to College, we worked our way thru.
The majority of us were not hippies, war protestors, college students, we were just simple people that love our Country, died for our Country when asked, and never asked nor expected anything from anyone. We worked hard for everything we have. It is time that the baby boomers stop being represented by war protestors and hippies.
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