Quite right. I spoke to my mom today about this very topic. She pointed out that the Boomers had been fed a huge load of crap while they were in school. In the late 60's and early 70's they were trying to live the life they were taught to lead. She said that it wasn't until the 80's that many of them began to see that it was a complete bust and start to pull back. In her opinion, the greatest damage to my generation was done by the feminists. "They're the ******* who convinced impressionable young woman that we were garbage if we stayed home to care for our children." Maybe we just figured it out faster. Xers, I don't think we can lay the whole load of social scum at the feet of our parents. (The Liberal Dems just lapped up the insanity that was being spoon-fed to them) So who, in the Greatest or Silent Generation, started all this sh*t?
I've heard this before, things like: 'you're the future leaders of this country and the world', and 'the future depends on you', 'you will be the generation that leads the world...' and other grandiose stuff. Any boomer care to verify or clarify? If it's true it would be in stark contrast to what the x'ers were 'fed'.