Posted on 09/07/2004 8:49:33 AM PDT by qam1
Yep, and so is Rush.
(And me, too!)
"The boomers are Woodstock, Watergate and Haight-Asbury. Its LSD and Timothy Leary, its the Berrigan Brothers and Howard Zinn, most of us werent even alive (really we were babies when these nuts were hitting their stride.)"
I wasn't a baby during this time, I turned 13 in 1970, but still, I didn't understand what all the protests were about. The people partaking in these events were college students and they seemed AGES older than me. I did know though, that my father, Marine of Korea era) was angry about what the students were doing and saying. I remember being happy when the soldiers came home, but mostly just because I was concerned for their safety (a neighbors boy had been injured quite badly.) I dnd't understand all the anger directed at the soldiers returning, and believe it or not, the teachers in my public school never addressed it,one way or another.
Just keep telling yourself that and go back to sleep.
Spent all your days escaping to the office, did you?
Growing up means taking responsibility, including the decision whether your dollars are worth more to your family than your time and attention.
There's room to disagree on that score.
Before the women of Gen X reach menopause, something needs to be done to promote having more children. The Boomer effect will be like "Groundhog Day" - the Boomlet are largely chips off the old block and if they don't reform, they will further propagate the madness. Gen X needs to doubly replace itself, averaging 4 plus kids per couple and then some, to account for the barren. Adopting from other countries can also help.
Have 3 or four more.
If you can, have or adopt more kids. Our values need to be propagated. There are 70 plus million Boomlet kids, who are chips of the hippy block. Our offspring need to be more numerous than we are.
It is wonderful you have been blessed with three. May they live long, be fruitful and multiply!
You are truly blessed!
While it may sound harsh, it is going to happen. There is no avoiding it. Anyone now over 50 who believes that the welfare state will or should help them (or should do anything at all beyond what it did 150 years ago) is truly deluded. I pray for their souls.
During the 1960s the subversion (directed by the KGB) was naturally, of the college students and the inner city blacks. We all know what happened then.
I was lucky. I just happened to go to some of the last schools that used corporal punishment. SWATTTTTT! [any questions?]
This sounds just like my Gen-X family. Thing about it is, I am completely unsurprised by this. The era in which we grew up was about a rebirth in traditional values (mostly under Reagan). It also doesn't surprise me that the "experts" completely missed it...again.
This Gen Xer does not intend to have any kids. Society is sick, getting sicker and one in which I don't intend to raise children in.
All I can say is, don't forget to vote. You are the salt of the earth, the classic flyover Boomers. Too bad there are so few of you.
They are still stuck in the "Thirtysomething" mentality (FYI, I really hated that show!.....)
I had the same thought after 9/11 when my wife and I were discussing having a second child. We asked ourselves why we would want to bring children into a world where people do these sorts of things. After some reflection, I decided that people like us are exactly the ones who should be having kids otherwise it will only get worse.
"Discipline returning".
Gen Xers like myself have probably read the book: "The Epidemic. The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive Parenting and the Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children." By Robert Shaw.
Excellent book, I devoured it.
Yep...my X'er is a great Mom!!!
If you narrow your focus to those who have wealth, influence and power, the generational definitions make more sense. The 60s counterculture essentially run the world now. Even the so called "conservatives" among them, in the halls of power, are far to the Left of even some Democrats of the 1950s. Walking as I do, literally in the heavy wake of the Boomers (born, '62) I have made a career of cleaning up after their messes. The only difficulty has been just the sheer amount of career competition - I always have many people, 10 - 30 years older than me, competing against me directly. I just makes me get even better.
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