[the OlLine Rebel]

"Has any generation in history ever banged on about itself more and with less merit than the baby boomers?"


This is all I need to see! This is what I've thought for ages - well, specifically the "real" baby boomers of the Hippie Generation.

They've celebrated themselves forever, in public. I get so sick of all the self-righteous "yeah, those protests were great about independence and free speech and not conforming to a selfish greedy society", that frequently appears on movies and TV shows, etc.

Truth is they are the Selfish Generation. Yet immediately they had the *gaul* to tag the slightly younger crowd the "Me Generation" (Disco Gen, or officially the latter part of the baby-boomers). It was THEY who were the G-D "Me" Generation. All that sound and fury about how great they were and loving and caring and freedom-loving signified nothing. It was BS.

[Two-Bits]

I am so tired of the baby boomers being represented as all hippies and war protestors, etc. Who in the hell do you think went to Viet Nam? Yes, the baby boomers. Who in the hell do you think was the silent majority that put Ronald Reagan in to the White House for two terms? Yes, the baby boomers. We had to put up with the BS from the hippies and the media back then as if these idiots (not the majority mind you) representated us back then.

The majority of us went to Viet Nam when our country called us. The majority of us had to work immediately during and after high school because we did not have elistist mommies and daddies that could sent us to college. If we did go to College, we worked our way thru.

The majority of us were not hippies, war protestors, college students, we were just simple people that love our Country, died for our Country when asked, and never asked nor expected anything from anyone. We worked hard for everything we have. It is time that the baby boomers stop being represented by war protestors and hippies.