The boomers have destroyed (in my lifetime) the family, marriage, sex, objectivity, morality, piety, a sense of shame, privacy, community, personal responsibility and the economy. Is there anything left the eternal adolescents wont destroy?
This is a one depressing article.
You forgot the dollar. That’s kind of a biggy.
The United States as an independent country.
The boomers have destroyed:
Turn off the TV. Rarely, rarely take in a movie. Borrow books from Boomers who have wonderful libraries that don’t follow the current culture.
You don’t have to be an over-the-hill hippy type to live simply, mostly stay out of debt (low mortgage), enjoy your family, find your fun by working hard...
I’m 63, and strongly influenced by my parents and the way they lived after going through the Great Depression.
My husband and I think very carefully about accumulating things we need, and not accumulating a lot of stuff for the heck of it.
If you want to have a happy life believe God is who He says He is, fight for your family, resist the culture, love what is good, be good to your neighbor, love your country. Remember, life is short, pack it full of good deeds, hard work and happy memories.
There are a lot of us Boomers that live just like my family does. We’re just not making a lot of noise.
It’s not a matter of taking us back to the wonderful,mystical ‘50’s. It’s being your best, and doing what is right in the midst of current events, and the times you’ve been given.
The boomers have destroyed:
Turn off the TV. Rarely, rarely take in a movie. Borrow books from Boomers who have wonderful libraries that don’t follow the current culture.
You don’t have to be an over-the-hill hippy type to live simply, mostly stay out of debt (low mortgage), enjoy your family, find your fun by working hard...
I’m 63, and strongly influenced by my parents and the way they lived after going through the Great Depression.
My husband and I think very carefully about accumulating things we need, and not accumulating a lot of stuff for the heck of it.
If you want to have a happy life believe God is who He says He is, fight for your family, resist the culture, love what is good, be good to your neighbor, love your country. Remember, life is short, pack it full of good deeds, hard work and happy memories.
There are a lot of us Boomers that live just like my family does. We’re just not making a lot of noise.
It’s not a matter of taking us back to the wonderful,mystical ‘50’s. It’s being your best, and doing what is right in the midst of current events, and the times you’ve been given.
...”The boomers have destroyed (in my lifetime) the family, marriage, sex, objectivity, morality, piety, a sense of shame, privacy, community, personal responsibility and the economy. Is there anything left the eternal adolescents wont destroy?”...
Correct! Ironically, the boost to end all of those good things we had came initially from academia in the 60s. Of course, the Progressives were at work before that but the decline really took off in the 60s. Unforuntately, with wealth redistribution being the big push now, there is plenty they can still destroy. Anyone with children, especially boys, who pays attention to the education system has to be horrified. And, the bullying is unreal..No one wants to take responsibility for this government system which has reeled out of control on every front. It all just seems like a corrupt mess.
It’s quite the accomplishment when you think about it. Usually it takes centuries to accomplish what the Boomers have in just forty years, under forty when you think about it. I wonder if it will ever be rebuilt, or if this country will have it’s own “Dark Ages.”
ErnBatavia- You get a lot of credit in reply number two. Makes me sort of jealous that I was born too soon to be a real “boomer”. Next you boomers will destroy, apple pie, base ball and motherhood.
DaleReed- We don’t get any of the credit!
If you knew any real history you'd know that most of the changes you decry were instituted by the Greatest Generation and the Korean era generation, and NOT by boomers.
Most changes began before most boomers could even vote. They were simply in their youth as the GG began changing many traditions and institutions. Boomers were never in most positions of authority until the mid-'80s to the early '90s. The changes had been taking place long before then.
SCOTUS handed down the Rowe vs. Wade in 1973. How did the boomer SCOTUS justices vote on that? How many voted for the War on Poverty in 1965? That's when much of the deterioration began. The oldest boomers were 20 in 1965.
Blaming boomers for all the changes you list is like blaming today's teenagers and college kids for tattoos, Obamacare and the financial crisis.
Someone stated, during the recent riots in London, one terrible consequence of war.
Too many of our best and brightest men fight our wars.
They cannot be replaced. Think on the impact on society?
Who will the women marry? Who will father the children?
Who will take charge of the nation?
This is not to insult men to do not fight, but to think on the great loss to the whole nation for all those men needed and gone.
Trace the downgrade of the nation, any nation, and society after a war.
During WWII women went to work and nothing has ever been the same.
Now, having said that, let me qualify. There ARE plenty of hard-working, solid and patriotic Americans in the boomer generation (please lower your hackles) and they have brought honor (even in failing times) to themselves. On the whole, though, our generation, it's leadership and it's “movers and shakers” have been post-modern secular idiots; in short, the identifying character of our generation was, is, and always will be that of a self-serving collection of clueless Marxist dolts. All charges made in the opening post are true and boomers have delighted in the destruction of this country with glee like Russian soldiers in 1945 Berlin.
If you don't count yourself in the above classification, great. Welcome to the post-American world forged by the rest of the imbeciles in our g-g-generation.
Oh, BTW, peace.
Is that like saying all Catholics are pedophiles like the priests who shamed themselves, or like all Protestants are whoremongers like the ministers who got caught? How about all whites are racist because of the KKK?
I doubt they could ever destroy your credibility, as you have none.