Then what about the previous boomer mantra of "Trust No one over thirty"?
Not that it matters, but that trust nobody over thirty quote was by Jack Weinberg who was not a "baby boomer" at all. Weinberg was born around 1941. He made that quote in 1965 when I was 6 or 7. I'm not going to take the blame for that quote, nor should all the people I know in my age group who have always been solid conservative Americans. In this country, we've always idealized individualism. This judgment of generations strikes me as something out of Old World socialism and struggles between classes. In America the only class or generation that matters is the one you see in the mirror. That's what we all have to answer for.
Don't think a statement by Abby Hoffman the militant typlifies the boomers......any more than Micheal Moore typlifies the xgen.