Posted on 09/27/2011 12:02:34 PM PDT by Kaslin
FDR and the Progressive movement sowed all of their deadly seeds before the first baby boomer was even born.
The “Greatest Generation” kept a solidly Democratic congress in place for 30+ years, which did even greater harm.
I also might add that it was the “Greatest Generation” that managed to raise a bunch of winer self-absorbed children.
Look at who was voting and when.
Tarring an entire generation with the same brush is beyond stupid.
I think it is like what William James called ‘moral fighting form’
Are we turning a bit liberal-simple-minded here?
My boomer compatriots (from one of the service academies) are largely doctors, lawyers, pilots, and generals. Very very few demonstrate the sub-human IQ which appears to have infected a large part of the MSM boomers.
So please, let’s not indict the entire generation with the afflictions of those who had the misfortune to smoke their life away in Berkeley or Columbia.
How in the world did they go from building all those beautiful ships and aircraft in 43-45, straight back to building the same horrible ugly cars and houses the day after the war ended and for three decades afterwards???
Dr. MLK Jr was born in 1929....
Not sure what the boomers contributed to the civil rights movement.
I totally agree. The Internet stands as one of mankind’s greatest accomplishments. In fact, it’s all the greater because we take it so much ffor granted.
I think Woodrow Wilson started the whole think. The man was a snake.
Cindie
They jumped in at the end, when the battle had essentially been won, and gave themselves all the credit for the accomplishments they did so little to bring about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generations_(book)
You beat me to it.
Everybody knows what he means by “The Baby Boomers.”
It’s a short-hand way of describing the dominant tendency of a large group.
I can find examples of fine upstanding (not to mention clean and articulate) character in any group which has dominantly negative characteristics. This doesn’t make the generalization inaccurate, it only demonstrates the fairly obvious fact that all generalizations have exceptions.
I’m right dead center in the group and I agree 100% with everything AK says here. It’s just that I never felt part of the group and have consistently opposed its dominant tendencies all along. That just makes me an outlier, which is exactly where I want to be.
Yep, it's about time someone lowered the boom on the Boomers. (full disclosure: I am one)
Same for the "Greatest Generation". The lowest generation IMO.
There is no excuse for squandering the richest legacy ever bequeathed to a generation, throwing away the sovreignty of the greatest nation on earth, and spending borrowed money like there's no tomorrow.
Can generation "X" pull our fat out of the fire?
An indictment of the Boomer generation like this usually originates from a member of Gen X or Gen Y.
I was born in 1948 and those my age whom I know seem quite normal. The dopers and demonstrators of the late 60’s were and are of another planet. Hate to sound Kerrylike but I served in Vietnam and saw what drugs did to people over there so I wasn’t insulated from all the turmoil of that time.
JMHO but the boomer misfits the author describes have now pretty much segregated themselves into liberal superghettos (southern California, NY/NJ/MA) and smaller `progressive’ enclaves (Austin TX, Madison WI, Asheville NC).
Here in South Carolina things are mostly copacetic except Lindsey Graham did get reelected.
But yes, depicting all Boomers as aging adolescents is to smear with a broad brush.
“Willpower” - a rather Nietzschean-sounding term. I’ve always preferred “self-control” or “self-discipline”. (Wasn’t it Thucydides who said, “Self-control is the chief element of self-respect”?)
Then again, a book titled “Willpower” probably sells better than one called “Self-Control”.
While much of the article paints with a broad brush, I agree with the basic premise.
The "Greatest Generation" was determined that our generation had it better than they. While it is a reasonable sentiment shared by every generation, they lost sight of the fact that it was the deprivation of the Great Depression and the sacrifices of WWII that made them great.
Unfortunately, they were also wildly successful in seeing that we had it easier, and it was resulting lack of challenge and purpose that turned so many of our generation into self-absorbed, self-loathing whiners.
Greedy Geezers, as Rush would say.
Andrew Klavin can speak for himself. Maybe he is the suckiest of them all but as for myself and my same age friends and relatives we are patriots all and never took a handout from the govt or anyone else. We all worked our azzes off to make a living for 40 plus years, paid our taxes and raised the kids. By the way the vast majority of these kids are now productive hard working Americans.
Blame the Progressive movement which has hijacked our educational sytem and our mainstream culture.
Hey Klavin you dipstick, who do you think the Tea Party is? Its the suckiest generation.
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