Boomers are romantics with the full force of nihilism driving their boats onto the rocks. The sirens song means death is attractive — and it is necessary to think so growing up on romantic existentialism — while at the same time they crave special entitlements, special pleadings to live the live forever dream of the 60s hippie youth crowd. They are a mixed bag to live such a mixed up life, a life that is narcissistic and shallow, and luxuriously decadent at its core. The kids of the boomers can`t be like them, even if they wanted to... and that is a good thing.
Kids of the Boomers will be the next greatest generation because they carry the scars left by the abandoned of their narcissistic parents. Kids today will not repeat the mistakes of the Boomers because the pain it caused to them.
What are these boomers doing today? Are they taking their grandkids to the park? Are they passing on their wisdom to the youth? Are they leaving future generations safety & security?
No! They are spending like mad in a final party before their time is up. They don’t attend little league games - they are too busy on their trip to Vegas. They don’t offer to baby-sit, that would conflict with their dinner party plans they use to relive their youth to simulate a dating atmosphere. Are they leaving any money or property to their kids or grandkids? Nope they are selling everything to finance a luxurious retirement.
If you’re a Boomer about to go on a vacation. STOP! Laying on your deathbed that vacation you took a few years prior will be meaningless. Instead grab your grandkids for a week or two this summer and just spend time with them, teach them something they will never forget. Offer to take your grandkids to their sports practices and stay and watch. If you don’t then don’t be surprised when you look down upon your corpse laying in the casket and the room is not hardly full and the only tears being shed are by your kids over the funeral bill you stuck them with.
We now have several generations of red diaper doper babies and a cultural reversal in which they have have become the new establishment yet still pitch themselves as being "revolutionary" and "outsiders".
You'll hear more derision in the media if you claim to be a Christian than a Communist.
As a boomer who has fought this all my life, I think your assessment of boomers is spot on. This is a group of folks whose moral compasses gyrate wildly on their axes, influenced by greed, ambition, stupidity and the fear that if they point a finger, one will be pointed straight back. They all live insipid lives of meaninglessness.
The latest mantra, if "professionalism," which seems to be an invocation that you stop trying to do the right thing because it will cause dissention and hurt feelings.
WFB once wrote that principles have sharp edges which cut deeply. How can a generation grow up never having been scarred by having to reconcile an action with principle?