I guess I didn’t make my point clearly in my quickly-written original post, which was in response to the poster who considered Gen X/Y to be “pathological.” My attempted (but I guess badly made) point was that, to me, the pig vomit who wrote the WSJ article read much more like a typical boomer justifying his own greed than a Gen Xer, and that if there is indeed a pathology in Gen X/Y, it is because some members of those generations have inherited the way of thinking espoused by a too-large percentage of Boomers. I do agree that by and large, X has better values than the Boomers (I think this comes from the fact that a substantial number of Gen Xers being offspring of Depession and WW II Babies - if you buy the original definition of Gen X, which didn’t include those born in the early 80s). BUT I teach Gen Y college students, and let me tell you, too many of them appear to be miniature carbon copies of their self-centered and self-satisfied mid-to-late boomer parents.
I’d just like to say that, as one on the tail-end of the baby
boom, I’d never treat someone who raised me like this self-centered Gen X-er. Nor would the majority of “boomers” that I know.