I have predicted this for quite awhile, now. We Boomers will have a lot to answer for, and when we get old, those younger than us who reaped the worst of what the Boomer generation wrought, will be glad to bump us off. Boomers maybe didn't invent them, but they massively popularized (among other things) divorce, sexual promiscuity, abortion, and structurally simplistic, angry, chronically adolescent negative music -- NOT LYRICS, but MUSIC.
Newer generations haven't yet comprehended that truly horrific musical legacy and its long-term psychological effects on a nation's psyche. On the other hand, listen to the music (who cares about the lyrics, I'm talking music) of the WWII generation. It's music for grown-ups. It's complex, optimistic, INTERESTING, and inspiring -- No wonder they won the war.
Another Boomer boomerang is their liberal stalling and objecting to further space exploration and pioneering ("We need to solve problems here on earth, first!" Like that day will ever come). Our future survival as a free nation will hinge on our capabilities to master space technology. The country that dominates space, WILL dominate the rest of the planet. Just like England, a little tiny nation that nonetheless mastered the seas, and thereby built an empire on which "the sun never set."
But, Waterleak, don't blame me! I was ten years old in the Summer of Love (1967) and even then knew college-age hippies were shallow sheep, rebelling out of peer pressure and for rebellion's sake. I was especially pissed off at the protesters of the Viet Nam war (click on my screen name) because I believed that Communism was as cruel as the grave. As a teen in the '70s, I didn't fit in with my generation, not with the politics and not even with the music -- aside from a few interesting groups like Jethro Tull, the Beatles, the Moody Blues, Santana, and others, I found the music tedious, predictable, whiny, negative, juvenile, and boring. And now the stupid idiotic liberal Boomers are advocating euthenasia, mercy-killing, etc. They are signing their own death warrants.
The boomers are stereotyped by the hippies. But if I remember the stats from the last election, they weren't all democrat.
There are boomers in the red states too.
In probably every high school, there are divisions, usually on racial lines. But my HS was entirely white. Just no minority students anywhere in range to bus.
So the division in our school was between the "hippies" and the "cowboys" (although that wasn't the name we used, a name that I'm told remained at that school until at least the late 80's). I'll have to admit today that I side with the philosophy of the cowboys. But back then, many of them were the litteral "slow" guys from special ed. There's no way any self respecting guy who had designs out for the girls would hang out with THEM.
And the worst part was that I lived in Oklahoma. And if you traveled out of state and told anyone where you were from, the very next sentence out of their mouth would be "Oh, you're an Okie from Muskogee"! (thinking they had made up a new joke) Talk about embarrasing.
So, I'm a proud "hippie", that gew up and discovered I was conservative. And I can't stand country and western to this day.
"And now the stupid idiotic liberal Boomers are advocating euthenasia, mercy-killing, etc. They are signing their own death warrants."
And the paper they sign it on will be filed by me, while they are led down the hallway by a Gen Y'r to be evacuated.
You forgot one major item...The drug culture. In 1955 I graduated from the 3rd largest 3 year high school in the country and I had never even heard of drugs.