[qam1]

In the early 90's, the boomers launched a huge media blitz calling all of generation X (a meaningless name) worthless. children included. They held themselves up as this overachieving super generation that saved the world. They also saw their parents as closed minded and uneducated.

Well said, Though they think they are the greatest and the most enlightened generation the fact is the baby boomers are by far the worst generation in the history of America, They failed their parents, They failed their kids and they failed their country.

The WWII generation saved the world for Democracy and Gen-X changed the world by bringing forth the Information age. The Boomers, Well they became lawyers.

Just like Hitler in the bunker at the end of the war blaming his failures on the German people because they weren't worthy of his genius with their self congratulatory, Elitist, I know everything attitudes the boomers blame other generations for theirs.

In pyscho-babble (another great boomer invention) it's called projection.

[metesky]

Gen-X changed the world by bringing forth the Information age.

Bill Gates, born on Oct. 28, 1955, is a Boomer and so were most of his original crew. Same goes for the Apple crowd.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"Well said, Though they think they are the greatest and the most enlightened generation the fact is the baby boomers are by far the worst generation in the history of America, They failed their parents, They failed their kids and they failed their country."

Right on. Let's be clear, we are talking about the archetype, not all.

Gen X was the most maligned generation in history. (I speak here for older X, I'm 34) That attack on us really pissed me off. My entire high school overall (nj) was hard working, free thinking, patriotic, moral, responsible, etc

We studied hard,played every American sport(sometimes in the street all day!) worked manual labor (happily in summer and even after school-work that 'is not good enuf for americans anymore-BS), thought freely and philosophically and thus more conservatively, supported usa against our enemies(russia) and kicked ass without question in the Gulf War,and most never collected a dime of any govt money. In our spare time we mastered computers and helped launch mainstream pc use in families.

We also lived a little hard, drinking alot of beer on weekends outdoors among 100's of friends, had meaningful, responsible love affairs, drove muscle cars, and carried ourselves like MEN, and did not appreciate Gestapo authorities. This was just the reality. its just my memory of my circle. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>cont