During the 60’s, my parents were clean cut folks raising a family of four kids. And during the disco craze, I listened to country music, hunted deer, and worked the farm.
And frankly, if we are all going to take on generational identities, the Greatest Generation has a lot to answer for. They introduced socialism on a massive scale, ruined the school systems, apparently raised a bunch of dope heads, and ran up an enormous national debt.
They aren’t the greatest generation.
They are the most uneducated on a grand scale, as, I believe, they were the first generation to be publicly educated.
When they hit tough times, then dropped freedom in exchange for socialism so fast that we are still fighting the after-effects.
I’m not for knocking old folks, so I will leave it at that. If they were younger, I’d call them on their deeds, but no point in doing that now. Let them collect their social security checks (more unequal wealth distribution there) and die breathlessly unaware.
“And frankly, if we are all going to take on generational identities, the Greatest Generation has a lot to answer for. They introduced socialism on a massive scale, ruined the school systems, apparently raised a bunch of dope heads, and ran up an enormous national debt”
What Brokaw called the “Greatest Generation” is what I call the “Suburban Generation”. Much of what defines suburbia- supermarkets, fast food, backyards, television, traffic gridlock, subdivisions- became ingrained in our culture after WWII by the young people who had been on the front lines. The Presidents from Kennedy to Bush Sr belong to this group.