[Chi-townChief]

I'm a Boomer myself and when I read through this, the first thought that comes to mind is "Man, what bullshit!!!" I'll agree with a point the author touches briefly on: the Boomers were very effective at taking credit for the heavy lifting done previously by the G.I. and Silent generations.

[quadrant]

I'm a Boomer, and the best description I've heard is The Destructive Generation.

[Radix]

I think that our parents made the world better, and that also our children are also doing such.

We Boomers are a spoiled self indulgent lot, and I doubt that writers of the future will deem us as the greatest anything.

[dangus]

Hard to figure how the Boomer scumbag generation gets credit for civil rights. Boomers were born in 1946-1964. Jackie Robinson played for the Dodgers when the oldest Boomer was only three. Brown v. Board of Education was 1954, when the oldest boomers were 8, and the youngest were a decade away from being born.

Those who fought in WWII were the ones who were adults during the achievement of Civil Right; the Boomers just turned the Civil Rights movement in an excuse to burn buildings, smoke dope, and then blame the man for the burnt-out cities and lack of jobs.

The great catalysts for the civil rights of blacks were several:
The experience of serving side-by-side with blacks in WWII;
MLK's appeal to Christianity, the religion rejected en masse by boomers, hippies, and liberals;
The national need for an end to economically counter-productive segregationist policies;

and probably several I'll be ashamed I ommitted...

None of them were the flower-powered, drug-addled, disease-infested, self-loathing scumbags who are the media-selected representatives of the Boomer generation.

[familyop]

I would really rather forget most of what we were and most of what we did. But our scumbag peers who are proud of all of that won't let us.

[JCEccles]

Boomer here. I personally loathe and repudiate the leftist nonsense that the writer lays at boomer feet collectively, although I must admit that some boomers are directly responsible for it.

And I cannot deny that the 60s were an amazing decade in which to come of age. Dennis the Menace and The Outer Limits, atomic bomb shelters and school drills, the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, Lou Christie and his falsetto pop, dickies and polka dot shirts, the Beatles and British bands, the Black civil rights movement, the Apollo moonwalks, Jimi Hendrix, Woodstock. Loathe it or love it, it was seldom dull and uninteresting.

The 70s were a superficial piffle for the most part, but the Reagan 80s were the most glorious decade of all for this boomer for the very reasons decried by the writer of this essay.