Posted on 10/05/2008 6:21:45 AM PDT by vietvet67
Spot on! Well said.
They identify with the Hopper character in Easy Rider.
Too bad they didn’t learn the overall lesson of the movie.
My 15-year-old son came home from school the other day and said “thanks, mom, your generation has screwed up this country so bad that mine is going to have to spend decades fixing it.” I had to tell him he was right. I also told him it was no accident that our two candidates for president are a pre-Boomer and a post-Boomer. We had Boomer presidents for the last 16 years and they messed up everything that Reagan and Bush had fixed. My son said he wants McCain to be elected because the generation before the Baby Boom knew what it was doing. I guess his school has done a lousy job of indoctrinating him!
This generational crap is just another bigotry; another way to avoid addressing reality.
Boomer = Jew = Black = Irish = Italian...
All boomers think alike. That’s the intellectually lazy position of this would-be pundit.
Three words: “We blew it.”
“Boomer = Jew = Black = Irish = Italian...”
Huh?
.....thanks, mom, your generation has screwed up this country so bad that mine is going to have to spend decades fixing it......
Is your son named Calvin? Did he have a pal, a tiger called Hobbes?
His statement is pure Calvin and Hobbes.
Alas, they are gone from the comics, but perhaps they are alive and well
Which part didn’t you get?
Bookmark. Of course, this is not true of all Boomers (as I am one), but it true of the ones that control the machinery of state and finance. We are the generation that had all the advantages and should have known better.
None of it.
bookmark
Note to boomers from the generation coming right after you: Payback’s a...well, you know.
spot on!
i noticed that the boomers sucked when i was in college.
my friends and roommates grew up on green leafy streets with doting moms.
their parents’ money paid for their educations and constant travel.
i grew up with nothing.
i noticed they hated working people. visiting our family farm they laughed at the manure and the hard work. they were above that.
The author, Berry, displays a collectivist mentality, groupthink. If there is a problem then there is some group to blame for it. In Germany they blamed the Jews. In the US many have blamed some ethnic group. Or the rich. Or the white people. Or the men. Or the Boomers.
The generation before that gave us Lyndon Johnson ,Water Cronkite,Mao,Stalin Hitler to name a few.
Note to your generation: ditto the next generation. So you'd better leave this a perfect world.
BTW - you enjoying that personal computer?
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