[wardaddy]

I think the problem young folks have with a lot of boomers is that the ones you describe didn't make great parents. Nothing worse than a preening self obsessed parent.

The Boomers were also the first generation that had it easy...(sans Vietnam for those that went)..relatively speaking and their large numbers have tended to expand everything unrealistically....

...the economy and culture.

It just sort of gobbles up everything.

Leftist culture never really took off where I'm from.

We got a bit of the dope and sexual revolution stuff.

The Civil Rights movement at which I was at ground zero is more honestly attributable to pre-boomers.

[HitmanLV]

I agree with you. Leftist culture didn't take root in my household, though it took root in nyc where I was raised.

[Black Tooth]

With all the bumps and bruises, the Boomer generation was much better than what we have today. In the 60s I never heard of daily drive by shootings, or tens of thousands of murderous organized gang members, mass murders, and school and work place massacres at a regular rate as we have today. A few of our cities had riots over the race thing, but that was generally the young against the older establishment. The boomer generation was pretty tame compared with today. And without a doubt, the boomer generation put out the best Rock n Roll ever.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

The boomers were decimated by drugs, Viet Nam, the pill, the untimely deaths of Presidents and poets, and the break-up of Lead Zeppelin.


Some of the fortunate ones found their way back home.


PRESSING ON


Well I'm pressing on
Yes, I'm pressing on
Well I'm pressing on
To the higher calling of my Lord.
Many try to stop me, shake me up in my mind,
Say, "Prove to me that He is Lord, show me a sign."
What kind of sign they need when it all come from within,
When what's lost has been found, what's to come has already been?


Well I'm pressing on
Yes, I'm pressing on
Well I'm pressing on
To the higher calling of my Lord.
Shake the dust off of your feet, don't look back.
Nothing now can hold you down, nothing that you lack.
Temptation's not an easy thing, Adam given the devil reign
Because he sinned I got no choice, it run in my vein.


Well I'm pressing on
Yes, I'm pressing on
Well I'm pressing on
To the higher calling of my Lord.