Posted on 10/22/2025 7:02:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Hippies, we have to talk. While for years the generation born right after you has been lumped together with you because of similarly high birth rates, the reality is that generations are defined by shared formative experiences, not just numbers. Baby-Boomers were born between 1946 and 1954, whereas those born between 1955 and 1965 had very different formative years, coming of age during the late 1970s and 1980s. As the Hippies hold onto their failed ideas, this generation urges them to step aside so the problems they created can be addressed.
For years, it’s been assumed that Boomers and Hippies all came from the 1946–1965 period, grouping together those with very different experiences. In truth, a silent generation born in the late 1950s and early 1960s had formative years in the late 1970s and 1980s, sharing more with Generation X than early Boomers.
We will grant that not every Baby-Boomer ended up as a Hippie. It’s an unfortunate fact that it’s part of the stereotype. But it’s time that this generation parted ways from being considered Baby-Boomers, and specifically the Hippie generation, especially after all the insanity and violence they’ve wrought over the years.
While by outward appearances, they might seem to be the same, a lot was changing during the formative years of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, with just a few years making a big difference between the two distinct generations. Those born during the initial Baby-Boomer cohort came of age during the 1960s and early ’70s. Hippie formative experiences were the draft, the Vietnam War, Woodstock, and the rest of the counter-culture of the 1960s.
The later generation came of age after the Vietnam War and the draft ended, with events like Watergate, the energy crisis, inflation, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Ronald Reagan’s election, nuclear...
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Since I was born in 1943, am I a pre-boomer?
Beatnik....
Yet another attempt to start a conservative feud, on the order of the Catholic-Protestant food fights or interventionists vs. isolationists.
I was born in 1962 and never could abide the mess I inherited from the boomers.
Generation Jones: 54-65
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones
https://youtu.be/4-X01D2oIcY?si=CF_y9e4mXnt4Fy7Y
“Now that we’ve established that there is a distinct difference between Baby-Boomers with Hippies and the Reagan Generation or Generation...”
No, neither “we” nor he has not established that and this is one of the most clumsy articles I have read from that platform.
Also, hippies were a very tiny percentage of the Baby Boom generation.
I agree wholeheartedly. There is a Grand Canyon chasm of difference between early Boomers who became Hippies and Later Boomers who have no Vietnam War era issues.
The Term Generation Jones was coined to describe the latter years of what was once considered the Generic Boomer Generation.
The distinction is a valid one. I and my wife, siblings and friends are all of Generation Jones. We have nothing in common whatsoever with the early Boomers/Hippies.
We have no empathy for anti-American Radicalism. No affinity to Socialism/Communism.
We admired President Reagan. We are hard working Capitalists. And, we all support President Trump 100 percent.
I’m GenX. I just want to be left alone to live my life as I see fit. Damn government can’t even do that.
CC
“early Boomers who became Hippies and Later Boomers who have no Vietnam War era issues.”
How about us Boomers that fought and survived that war democrats started and sabotaged?
Hear hear!
Trump is a boomer too. He’s going to clean up a lot of it. But the institional rot runs deep. It will take a generation or more to undo the work of the communists over the last three generations since the 1960’s.
I think they have the “generations” wrong, there certainly is a lot more to it. End boomers and old X are certainly a lot more similar compared to old boomers and young x which are more similar to those that came between.
Maybe it should be hippies, x, and dippies.
The funny thing is, people our age didn’t even identify with each other as “our generation,” and we didn’t blame the older generation for everything. We just lived our lives as individuals.
Later, we were named ‘Generation X,’ which at first started with 1960 births when the birthrate dropped. But, then, someone decided Gen-X shouldn’t start until ‘65. Now, even if we were born a few weeks before that year, everything in the world is our fault. lol
I am Gen X. It was our generation that was the foot soldiers who kicked the crap out of Sadam during the first Gulf War. We didn’t dodge no draft but signed up willingly.
I didn’t make it to the Gulf as I was in Korea. It was over so quick that I was not needed. But I knew damn well why we were on a ship in the Pacific. If it escalated the war games would have been canceled and we would have sailed to the Gulf instead of Korea.
And yes, I want the government to leave me the hell alone. And all those pinko’s on the left.
Two years earlier for me, but I agree 100%.
I have nothing in common with the aging hippies haunting the halls of Congress.
Born in 1960.
Cast my first Presidential vote for Ronald Wilson Reagan.
Let me be the first to tell you that you, too, are a boomer. The boomer generation extends to 1964.
Oh, and the "mess" you inherited was the most prosperous country the world had ever seen.
It is so wrong to assume that every Boomer was a Hippie. I was born in 1950 and came of age in the ‘60s. The vast majority of people my age I knew, were conservative, didn’t smoke pot, and detested Hippies.
That small percentage ended up having a wildly disproportionate influence on every generation of students since.
As one of my taglines say: "Hippies who said 'Question Authority' are now the authority saying don't question them."
They don't even have the decency to die off fast enough to spare us further damage.
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