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This emotional pathology is shared across an entire generation. I know few who feel differently about the boomer generation.

The real emotional pathology that needs investigation is the astonishing narcissism of the baby boomers.

I assume from your response that you are a baby boomer, because everyone else has at least a basic understanding of just how horrific the boomer legacy has been. Boomers themselves, self-absorption being their defining trait, would naturally be ignorant of this.

Take a step back and see what you are suggesting. Murdering 40 million children is not a pathology, but well-justified anger over it is? That's no different in nature to suggesting that the problem with the Holocaust lies with the Jews.

You're kidding yourself and seem deeply troubled. The violent ideation that your posts contain indicate that there is much more going on with you than some self-congratulatory sense of outrage over abortion. (btw, how many boomers sat on the Supreme Court and decided on Roe v. Wade?)

Your obvious anger, thirst for revenge (your word) and the violence in your vision for the future of your parents' generation taken with the troubling comic book art on your profile page paint a picture of someone with too heavy an emotional burden. I sincerely hope you work things out.

Good luck.

I think that is a big part of it. What do the generations BB's produced feel they have to support. BB's are directly responsible for the state of affairs we live in today. I mean the cultural climate. I am 30 something and my brothers are 20 something. Our parents still use us to fight between them. I nearly passed out after my nasty father said something so horrendous recently. Self-centered, egotistical jerk and I know plenty of others my age who feel the same thing. and for those who think we just hate our elders. Rubbish. I loved my grandparents, all 4 of them. They were wonderful folks who I admired greatly. They had a great devotion to their families that somehow their children did not. I really idolize my now deceased grandparents. I don't see anything in my parents character that even compares.

The real emotional pathology that needs investigation is the astonishing narcissism of the baby boomers.

Excellent point. Ironically, I believe this narcissism is rooted in nothing more than accidents of history. Baby Boomers were coming of age just as monumental changes were occurring in our economic, political, and social order (the civil rights movement, space travel, the movement of large segments of our population from the cities to the suburbs, etc.). What makes these "accidents of history" from the Baby Boomers' perspective is that they really didn't have anything to do with these things, but they are the defining moments of their formative years.

This, by the way, is one reason why I refused to pay a nickel to see the movie Saving Private Ryan -- not because this self-described tribute to "The Greatest Generation" wasn't worthwhile, or well-deserved, but because a jack@ss like Steven Spielberg did us all a great disservice by making a movie like this instead of making a blunt, accurate movie as a "tribute" to his own generation.

The only thing I am suggesting is that your over the top need for "revenge", your violent ideation and your all too apparent anger is indicative of a deeper personal problem; one that I hope you sort out before you do have children of your own.