Posted on 12/15/2004 3:05:45 AM PST by dandelion
Get ready for a real trip down memory lane - no, not the an LSD trip, we mean a nostalgia trip for the old days and the old folks kind. Ah! Nothing reminds one of people stuck in the sixties like the smell of patchouli and three-day body odor, and that smell will be present at George W. Bush's second Presidential Inauguration. These wizened weedwhiffers will once again crawl out of their Vanagons and totter to protest publicly for whatever reason they are hallucinating about this time - in this case, to turn their back on the President at the Inaugural Parade in an attempt to - to - I don't really know.
Now, I know what you're thinking. "Oh, here we go again: how many years have we had to put up with these pathetic geezers peeing and moaning about how the world is going to hell?"
Thirty? Forty?
Who cares?
Let them enjoy their little day-trip from the GreenBud Nursing Home for Aged Hippies. They won't be around much longer for us to taunt, seeing as how we are taking over the country now.
Yes indeed: according to Ann Fishman, Generational Marketing Guru, Generation X is wresting control from those ancient denizens of the Mid-Last-Century, the Yuppie and Hippie Boomers:
(Generation)'X' Will Mark the Spot Again in 2005
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Stay-at-home moms are "in," and so are genuine heroes. Putting career ahead of family is "out," and so are laissez- faire attitudes toward planning for retirement. These are a few of the important Cultural Trends to watch for in 2005, according to Generational expert Ann Fishman. She says they are the product of a turning point in American society that began in 2004: a shift away from the idealistic, "Me-driven" lifestyle of the Baby Boom Generation, and toward more traditional and results-oriented values of Gen X. Based on Fishman's research into the habits and values of American consumers, Generation X -- the more than 93 million Americans born between 1961 and 1981 -- 2005 will be the year in which Gen X fully asserts itself as the leading force for change in American life.
Fishman said, "The re-emergence of traditional values of stable home life and civic participation that began when Generation X assumed the mantle of leadership in 2004, will continue in 2005 and beyond."
Give it up, old timers. Aww, how cute, look at them attempting to hang on to relevancy. They would do well to look at their peers - the Vietnam Vets, the working stiffs, the pluggers: the "Busy" Boomers who actually grew up and managed to be something besides "me-driven" yuppies or sad anti-war relics. Those Boomers who actually did something with their lives (besides toke them away) are still vital members of society. They may be older, but they are not old. They understand how the world has changed, and they have changed with it. But not these Leftist fossils from the Sixties...
Why, even the ELDERS of the Boomers, "The Greatest Generation" and their little siblings "The Silent Generation" are more vital than these washed up backwards-looking Boomers. At least they changed with the times, man. My mother, born in 1927, is a real 21-century lady, and still going strong.
So what happened to these protestors? Did they not get the memo? Did they miss 9-11?
Why, sure they did. They were so busy tripping on their Che Guevera tie-dyed T-Shirts they forgot to WAKE UP AND SMELL THE NEW CENTURY. Geez, do they even catch the news anymore? Do they even know Walter Cronkite retired?
No. Evidently not. From all accounts, they don't even know the election is over.
Sure, these dried-up Flower-Children know how to use the internet, and maybe how to forward some e-mail. But if they knew how to Google the news of the day, they'd see just how much the rest of us have moved on to not giving a damn about them or their protests any more. We have a war to win, we have a Nation to save, we have families to raise, and we no longer have time for their little control-freakouts or Leftist tantrums.
They are SOOoooo last century.
They are to pitied more than scorned, except for the fact that they still somehow think they are even remotely vital to society. They are the left-over Establishment. They are the Old School. They are just plain old.
And they are fading, fading, fading from power.
Farewell, hippies and hangers-on. Sure, you have some "younger people" in your midst. But they are so stoned, and so busy destroying their bodies and minds, they'll be old as you guys are before you know it. And they'll be just about as important, too. Which is to say, not very.
See you at the Inauguration, geezers! Don't forget to stock up on Depends and Zig-zags, and make sure to remember your canes and walkers. After all, we love our old people, and you guys sure are adorable in your granny gear and roman sandals.
Old people! Gotta love 'em. Oh well - back to taking over the country...
"Yuppie and Hippie Boomers"
The Generation that hope they died before they got old and then didn't.
Good read!!
Flower children. My mother used to call them bloomin idiots. LOL
One good thing, if they turn their backs at least we won't have to look at their ugly faces.
Good read, but only partially true; they still control the levers of influence in the media and academia . . . but that's slipping too.
What is REALLY pathetic about these liberal geezers is that they will agitate like h*ll for the younger generations to keep them alive...stem cell research, ANY kind of research, just to keep them breathing...because they, as ever, think the world can't revolve without them. What in the name of heaven was the WWII generation thinking when it raised these spoiled brats, who are now wrinkled, spoiled brats? If it weren't for educational institutions, government agencies, and the churches these misfits would have been unemployed homeless folk. But they found "meaningful" employment there with not enough to keep them busy, so they have the time to show up around the country bitching and moaning and being covered by their soul-mates in the media. Gack! They can't bury them fast enough! Not one tax dollar should go to keeping the Boomer generation going.
FINALLY someone makes the distinction between hippy boomers and others born during that era. There are those on FR that paint with an excessively broad brush and tar and feather everyone based on the happenstance of their year of birth. THis person gets it!
Thankfully, some of us Boomers didn't drink 60's Kool-Aid....I was too busy working my way through school and learning Motown tunes....
I think it's because they are so afraid of death. It's tragic, really.
Wow.....I was a trendsetter. Who know I was so ahead of my time in 1990?????
Good read, but only partially true; they still control the levers of influence in the media and academia . . . but that's slipping too.
5 posted on 12/15/2004 4:00:09 AM PST by Vigilanteman (crime would drop like a sprung trapdoor if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
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Just as the Communists took over institutions of higher learning in the '50's and '60's, so to will this generation take the reins in the years to come.
I believe the leftists will be totally marginalized in my lifetime.
Praise God!
I not only love it, I used to be one of those students. When I had time, I would audit these classes just for the sheer joy of showing this bloviating leftists as the fools they are. My graduate studies program gave us the right to audit. You could feel the change in atmosphere when the students from the real world walked into the room.
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