Take it easy on the guy.
As a Boomer, OBVIOUSLY he thinks the entire schtick is about himself.
Beyond that...I don't see anywhere the bashing wasn't deserved. There is the whiny little bit about a generalization not applying universally at the individual level that Boombers (and liberals) like to drag out. Otherwise...let the bashing continue until the sons of bitches support Social Security Reform and legal options to opt off the rolls.
LOL, obviously.
You're an antagonist. LOL!
Take it easy on the guy?
I did.
I wasn't completely satisfied to leave it at that...but I did. I was behaving, trying to be polite, in the face utter rudeness.
That's all going to fly out the window now. I'd love to oblige, really I would, but first and foremost I just could not yield to the temptation to let #11 go.
Nor could I yield to the temptation to let go a smackdown of Boomers and this "Fourteenth Generation". Generalizations drive me nuts.
There are plenty of fellow Boomers and GenXers who stood with me on the Parade Grounds at Parris Island last year watching what was referred to in the article as the "Fourteenth Generation" earn the title as their 'kids' volunteered to protect each freaken generation. Imagine.
With all due respect, the social security, etc., issues don't really matter a rat's ass if SOMEBODY isn't the appointed guardians of 'liberty's century'...if SOMEBODY isn't somewhere in the nation’s wings, ready to act. And who is it? The "Fourteenth Generation".
The little squirt (the author Zeiger) wrote:
"America is unique in the world. We can view that uniqueness as a product of ourselves alone, or of something higher, something that in turn gives us meaning. To choose the second vantage would mean revival to a dying civilization. Such a revolution of intellect, morality, culture, and spirit would be the reversal of the prior revolution that even now attributes its aging breaths to retiring Baby Boomers on college campuses, in the old media, in liberal churches, in public high schools. Slow fades the flicker on the marijuana joint..."
Zeigler's correct (as generalizations go)- many in my generation (Boomers) and other WERE and are responsible for the silent majority, and more. Many brought ill upon the US. Providentially speaking, we have an opportunity to right a wrong in that regard. The most fascinating aspect of the piece to me is that many of the 'late Boomers' (young boomers/late parents) and GenX bore and raised this Fourteenth Generation. That was too obvious, though. It is quite telling that rather than lift up our youth, in the face of an opportunity to bash others-someone had to grab a club.
The callous disregard for this new generation- taking away from them in what I see as purely selfish terms and losing the concept of a hugely thought provoking discussion to blow one's own horn while looking in the mirror and trumpeting the wonders of one's own generation just pissed me off. MEMEMEMEME. I watched in horror those I lived with in my generation, heaped shit on this country and I watch this new generation as they shovel it off, leave their families, bury their peers, and comfort Boomers and GenXers.
Last I knew, we were all in this together. The rest of us, like the best of the "Fourteenth Generation", should act like it.