Posted on 01/12/2009 9:56:37 AM PST by 444Flyer
I never understood either how ~20 years constitutes a generation. Fads change much faster than that, so a guy 18 years older than the next guy is much different.
What a stupid definition.
Perhaps. I’m not totally optimistic, but Reagan had some kind of effect on people. Even my (stupid; no, I really mean that) Dem-based friend admitted when he was leaving that “he made it feel good to be an American, like it was OK”. (IOW, even then we were self-flagellating so much that being American was “shameful”. Such is the bottom-line problem with our society now.)
I myself an GenReagan and I was raised NOT by Hippies per the stereotype but by ‘50s-type people, who were much mature by the time I came around and were not even themselves raised by the Spock method (Baby Boomer). Mercifully I dodged that bullet.
The question is not “lasting”, the question is “good or bad”.
Unfortunately, commie hippies had and will have a huge “lasting” impact. It’s just that it’s not good.
Nominally, our current society defines an "adult" at age 18. Coincident with that age, marriage (or not) and procreation create the next generation. My parents didn't start having kids until age 28. My grandparents waited until age 43. WWI delayed the opportunity. My great grandfather married at age 25...in 1865...after serving in the Union Army. He raised 19 kids from 1865 through 1887. He actually lived until 1921.
A "generation" is a mix of biology and societal expectations.
“SPOCK” and the Commie College Professors who the Greatest Generation TRUSTED their children to....also.
I have a suspicion that it was one of these types that wrote the article. The Boomers represent traditional values to them and they rebel against that and want us out of political influence because we are old fashioned and antiquated in our non-liberal beliefs according to their own standards.
One example of this is that there are younger women asking men to marry them now and there is a new trend to either combine both bride and groom's last name or come up with a completely new one to be addressed by. It's probably from years of feminism wearing away at our young women who now no longer look at it as a blessing to become part of her husband's family, but rather want to continue on in her own autonomy even though she is taking a vow to become one with her husband before God.
Yes, other Boomers like Obama etc. are also radical, but in my opinion he and the others like him weren't raised with the same standards as the majority of Boomers. They are the ones who never grew up or out of their radical hippie phase of the 60’s and early 70’s.
But the music and fun times were the best .
Shame on me for painting with so broad a brush.
Certainly there are great people, just as there are bad ones, in every generation.
US Casualties in WWII: 400,000+
US Casualties in Korea 36,000+
US Casualties in Vietnam 58,000+
US Casualties in Iraq 4,000+
Every one of them precious.
But Obama should’ve been a “disco era” “Boomer”. He would’ve been 10yo around when hippies were at their zenith. He didn’t have any such phase to grow out of.
Did they have hippies in Indonesia?
LOL touche.
There’s so much wrong with the premises in this article it’s hard to critique it!
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