I posted it because I have become weary of the Boomer-bashers here. The way I see it, if people want to blame Boomers for the ills of the world, they should, at least, understand the roots of the 60s.
“I posted it because I have become weary of the Boomer-bashers here. The way I see it, if people want to blame Boomers for the ills of the world, they should, at least, understand the roots of the 60s.”
I don’t “want to blame Boomers for the ills of the world” — I’ve been led there by empirical evidence and reason.
And nothing you’ve posted here does anything to dissuade.
Sure, the Beats — another name for the leftists of the fifties — birthed the hippies (boomers). (And before them, the Bolsheviks. And way before them?
Robespierre and the Jacobeans. So what? There’s always a leftist subculture in every society bent on sawing off the tree branch their own little hive hangs from.)
The point is, there were a relative handful of beatniks. In San Francisco. And New York. Hollywood. At universities.
But the Boomers, in their never-before-seen numbers, millions and millions and millions, were no subculture. They became the culture. They embraced the left and all things leftist. They didn’t give it up after college; they’re still living it and taking the rest of us down with them.
Boomers have ruined everything in this country — the church, government, medicine, science, movies, books, TV, the news, education — everything that makes America America. You name it, the Boomers have raised their collective leg on it and destroyed it.
Yeah, I’m one of the ones on FR who blame the Boomers.
Well, good for you. I'm sick of the Boomer-bashing, too. The bashers ignore that it was the "Greatest Generation" that raised us. And about half of us turned out fine.
Blaming everything bad that has happened since 1968 on the "Boomers" is just a substitute for thinking. Individuals act; not great globs of generation-belongers.