Posted on 07/24/2008 8:53:08 AM PDT by Incorrigible
As us Gen Xers used to say in the 80's.... "Gag me with a spoon!"
Generation Reagan Bump!
Hey--I like that. "The Reagan Generation"--
Duh ... the media and its advertisers are following the money bubble that is part and parcel of the boomer generation ... who'da thunk.
You ain't seen nothing yet, wait until they start inheriting the wealth of their aging parents.
To be fair: Generation William Ayers, Huey Newton and Angela Davis bump.
That's the problem. About 50% of the boomers never recovered from the insane ideas of the 60's. Today, they are the establishment, still keening away about multiculturalism, political correctness, hate speech, Amerika, homophobia, racism. All of that crap "ripened" in the 60's and it's getting pretty smelly; but apparently a whole new generation has bought into it and is about to help America put a shotgun in its mouth and pull the trigger.
And in 30 years, when this insufferable generation of narcissists finally passes, the headline will be: "Dying is now chic."
In about 15 years the boomers are going to start dying in significant numbers. I wonder what they will turn to when their mortality hits them squarely between the eyes. Will we see a sudden upsurge in religious practice? Will we see some form of fatalism? Maybe a kind of generational dementia or frantic flailing about for some reprieve? It will be interesting.
Why does this bother you so?? I’m turning 50 in six months and people tell me I look like I’m in my 30’s. I work hard at it and it’s a great feeling. I feel and look better than I have in my whole life.
fat and decrepit will never be chique
There’s already an upsurge in religion in this age bracket. I see and hear about it everyday.
Yeah, me too. And I have also found that I can store my spare change in the cracks in my face. Too cool.
Of course. Except for the psycho part, these middle-aged actresses are not believable as adults. So now they play themselves; pathetic, over-aged, adolescents.
That’s a good one.
Being lazy and out of shape is what they are talking about.
This article is not about being fit a vigorous in older years, is is about validating the destruction of the body cause by the hedonistic hippy lifestyle of the woodstock generation.
About celebrating the wrinkles and skin degeneration cause by pharmacuetical recreation. About celebrating weakness of the body by lack of use. About celebrating the weakness of the mind caused by intentional ignorance.
Funny -- I've always heard a different version of that idiom....
This boomer's parents had seven kids - even a big inheritance doesn't go far divided that many ways
That's a good one too. ;)
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I disagree. Madonna is not ageless. But I'm not going to say that to her face, because she looks like she could beat me up.
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