I have to agree to some extent with the OP. While no generation is without its faults our society really began to go off the rails with the arrival of the boomers on the scene. The last generation that I had much use for is the so called “silent generation” those between the so “greatest generation” and the boomers. My experience with these people is they generally kept their heads down worked hard, raised families, with many serving in Korea with little fanfare and lived honorable traditional lives. While the boomers in many respects represent a historical break in our country’s history it’s not like any of the succeeding generations are any better, in fact I’d argue they’re all much, much worse. The so called millennials, of which I’m ashamed to admit that I’m tentatively a member of, are a verifiable Frankenstein freak show.
On a related note somebody on here posted a quip about how the “greatest generation” is really the “statest generation”, they voted for FDR and his New Deal and then voted for LBJ and his “Great Society”.
Yep. And I relish all the moments I spent with the folks who were born in the 1880s-1910s. Talk about a much heartier, and vastly more sane worldview. There’s almost a day-and-night division, culturally and mentally, with that demarcation point that occured with the baby-boom crowd. Not that I put a great onus of blame on them, as they were cultivated by all sorts of technological, demographic, and social trends. But we’ve been turned into a screwball nation of self-absorbed headcases ever since, getting worse with every passing year.