Posted on 12/26/2005 5:07:49 PM PST by AZRepublican
The valiant generation of Americans that fought World War II to preserve our liberty and western civilization was followed by the worst generation in the history of the country: the Baby Boomer generation born from 1946-1964.
The elite Baby Boomers turned the United States from the most prosperous countries on the planet to a country heading toward bankruptcy. It acquired a massive foreign trade deficit that will take generations to pay off. It deconstructed U.S. industries and the invited the invasion of millions of illegal aliens.
The Baby Boomers declared the Constitution to be a worthless piece of paper. It derided the notion that United States was unique place among the nations of the world and declared that it was only the equal of other countries, if not worse. The Baby Boomers mocked the nation’s Christian heritage and forced ordinary citizens to fight to keep Christmas in public places.
In David McClelland’s 1961 opus, “The Achieving Society,” McClelland shows that rises or declines in the “need for achievement” precede the economic rise or decline of a society. For him growing societies have a great deal of “need for achievement” This need for achievement plateaus as the society becomes wealthier and eventually declines. This precedes the eventual dissolution of the society. He notes that the wealth of the society prevents parents from developing self-reliance in their children. This lack of self-reliance leads to the children having a reduced need for achievement. Describing Athenian society, McClelland says,
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Affluent? Do you see many advertisers pushing Buicks and Depends? What popular television shows exist that cater to the WWII Generation?
Ostensibly written to eulogize the soldiers of WWII, it does nothing of the sort. It undermines their patriotism to the United States and willingness to risk and give their lives in its defense. Millions of Americans fought for in World War II, but it was not to enable their buddies to go home to their mother."
Great observation (although it was Tom Hanks whining soliloquy about returning to his "wife" that was so wretched.)
When it comes to serious topics, Spielberg is consistently wrong.
That's RIGHT! I mean really! If someone had told us we didn't HAVE to "donate" to SS in our paychecks, there wouldn't BE a SS crisis!
Right?
/heavy sarcasm for the kids
I apologize if I sounded a bit rude.
I just think every generation is good in their own way.
And every generation defines AMERICA.
Um. I thought our generation was FIGHTING that war, not giving it to us...
What do you think the real estate boom is about? Look at how many loans are co-signed by the Greatest Generation. Huge transfer of wealth from the WWII generation to boomers is currently underway.
Advertisers don't reach the Great Generation via TV. They have other ways.
Well, both of you are incorrect. Going with the typical measure of a generation being eighteen years, here are the 20th century generations:
1908-1926- Greatest Generation
1927-1945- "Silent" Generation
1946-1964- Baby Boomers
1965-1983- Xers
1984-2002- Yers
Using that calculation, the Greatest Generation is made of people actually old enough to fight in WWII. The "Silent" Generation has actually uo to its name: it has passed on much of the blame to Baby Boomers. Many of the most hated so-called "Boomers" on this board are actually in the "Silent" generation.
Was this written by an unemployed Gen X'er ?
You mean the generation that created that phenom known as Rock and Roll and the term "teenager"?
Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
--Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato
He he. (post 27)
There were plenty of professors and even high school teachers I had as a Baby Boomer in the 60s and 70s who were from the previous generation and they were commies and taught us to be as close to commies as they could get us. This is BS and I am tired of this kind of crap masquerading as some sort of "Historical Bible" of the "evil" of my generation. Every generation and group of people has problems. My parents went through terrible hardships that I can only imagine but when the hardships were over they paid little attention to what was going on in the public school system that was trying to destroy their children.
The only picture of the BB generation that succeeding generations get is from the MSM. Is there any wonder that they should think this way?
Most of my generation are a bunch of whining, spoiled, cool-aid drinking, bed wetting wimps. I too will have to apologize to my children before I die.
You are full of it .The boomers elected W twice and Ronnie . Clintoon wouldn't have won without the third party draw of chicken man .
The majotity of boomers are not libs or old hippies . The maority have great jobs, are near retirement, and have stock portfolios that are the envy of many people. If you believe in " trickle down " ,it trickles from the affluent boomers .
We don't deserve to live.
We're scum and we've wasted the generous legacy bequeathed to us by far superior humans that came before.
Let us wail, collectively...."We're not worthy...we're not worthy"
Where the H#ll is the mega puke alert?!
Too much common sense....
In a lot of ways the Boomers were a product of a culture created by the prominent representatives of the two earlier generations. What people forget is how liberal the intellectual enviroment of the early Sixties -- which the boomers didn't create -- really was.
That is to say, the early Sixties weren't that liberal in policies, but were more open to liberal ideas than the country has been since. "Liberal" had been a good word to many in the New Deal generation, and they weren't sufficiently skeptical about liberal claims and demands. You can't blame the people who were kids then for that. Here's a fine -- if too respectful and reverential -- article about the atmosphere of the Kennedy years.
A lot can be said against the boomers, but there's nothing like an exaggerated, easily refutable indictment to make them actually look good.
I don't know about that. My late grandfather was born before WW1 and he told a few sordid tales to me before he died. It certainly sounded like there was some major pipe-laying going on back in the 30's and 40's.
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