Dear Boomers: hurry up and DIE ALREADY! WE'RE SICK OF YOU!
(I was born in '61, but that doesn't make ME a boomer - it makes me "Generation W"! :0))
Now there's Jane Fonda's,John Kerry's,Ken Kessey's, Timothy Leary's,John,Paul,George & Ringo's,Elton John's,Abbey Hoffman's,Martin Scorceses',Bill & Hitlery's,Bella Abzug's,Gloria Steinem's,Alfred Kinsey,Margaret Sanger's epitath.
Boomers have backed Bush, and his tax cuts, and his war
::whining:: It's Bush's War, it's Bush's war!
Memo to Ms. Malanowski: Screw yourself.
ROFL!
Good Old Brokejaw. What courage.
LOL
The--let me get this straight--"Great Moral Leap Forward?" From the 1960s? Okay, you really want to place morality and the 1960s together? But if you're going to do that, I guess it makes sense to compare it to a communist revolution.
Never much noticed it before that none of the boomers' leaders were boomers. The boomers are followers. I was born near the end of WWII and not quite a boomer I noticed when growing up how each year younger than "us" were softer and more pliable.
This is nothing more than a Baby Boomer leftist screed that does nothing but advance the GenX/Y position that Boomers are, essentially, a waste of skin.
rather than waste newsprint and bandwidth "socializing" the notion of downplaying the effects of the Baby Boom generation, why not leave that to history?
One of the things that struck me the most was the fact that the artcle focused solely on the liberal agenda and the 60s as the era of social progress, while ignoring everything else. Most astonishingly, the author (ptrobably a Gen X or Yer) and most others fail to give boomers credit for doing anything of note - such as developing the Internet, to name but one of our accomplishments.
It is unfortunate that so many people feel obligated to bash the boomer generation and tar us all with the same brush. While many boomers might have been "working on growing their sideburns", the rest of us were working hard to make the American dream a reality for ourselves and our fellow Americans.
I'll close by quoting the lyrics from Mike and the Mechanics' Song "The Living Years"
Every generation blames the one before
And all of their frustrations come beating on your door
I know that I'm a prisoner to all my father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage to all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
More crumpled bits of paper filled with imperfect thoughts
Stilted conversations, I'm afraid that's all we've got
You say you just don't see it, he says it's perfect sense
You lust can't get agreement in this present tense
We all talk a different language, talking in defense
Say it loud, say it clear, you can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die to admit we don't see eye to eye
So we open up a quarrel between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future, it's the bitterness that lasts
So don't yield to the fortunes you sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective on a different date
And if you don't give up and don't give in you may just be okay
Say it loud, say it clear, you can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die to admit we don't see eye to eye
I wasn't there that morning when my father passed away
I didn't get to tell him all the things I had to say
But I think I caught its spirit later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo in my baby's newborn tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years
Say it loud, say it clear, you can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die to admit we don't see eye to eye
Notice how it wasn't the 'Greatest Generation' who came up with that title - it was the later grateful generations who did - the WWII generation was simply doing their duty and would not think of such self-promotion....
compare that with all of the 'Boomer' bloviating...the only person who is a 'Boomer' is one who is idiotic enough to identify himself as such...the rest of us merely have birthdates and refuse to be lumped into any categories...
In short, some blame the greatest, most free, complacent, accepting, strongest, happiest, most wanted by others, deserving of progress, lifestyle for this political way of life, is to blame for the phrase, "life's a b!tch and human progress is to blame for it"!
However, if any of you thinks the next word could possibly be something other than “but,” I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.
This line is so overused, it's so hackneyed. She is out of ideas, plain and simple.
Steinhorn's “but” is a big one, and justly aimed. He points out that the Greatest Generation came home from World War II to an America that was racially segregated, restricted by sex roles, bigoted against gays and environmentally ignorant, and that it wasn't until the flowering of the Boomers in the sixties that progress in these areas became a reality. And in that progress, he stakes the claim for his generation's superiority.
Steinhorn is an ardent and impassioned Boomer-booster, and in an era when liberal has become a label that even liberals wear reluctantly, he is providing a very useful service. The change in America that has accompanied this generation's march through life has been profound, and because America changed, the world followed. For all the sideshows that encumbered the '60s—the sex, the drugs, the music, the hair—the ultimate legacy of the period is a Great Moral Leap Forward, such that America is now more publicly committed to equal opportunity, diversity, fairness and environmental preservation than at any time in our history. And the fruits of this progress are among our country's greatest ornaments.
Great moral leap forward? What's that, the moral leap recently reported of 74 out of 100 pregnancies in NY resulting in abortion? The moral leap of elevating barren, disordered homosexuality to parity with fecund and restorative heterosexuality? The moral leap of at least half the population going back on its pledge to 'love, honor and obey, till death do them part?' The moral leap of a decline in literacy, and the fact that an elderly woman riding any mass transport today can count on catching an ear-full of 'effin' this or 'effin that?
She hasn't a clue about what a moral leap is.
You think the Battle of the Bulge was bad? You should have been there when they popularized birth-control pills.
Bump
Only in sense of sheer numbers...
No doubt some opportunistic right-wing scribe is energetically pitching Regnery Press on the merits of prosecuting Boomers for their various crimes against humanity
Yup...
One million dead in Cambodia, and a million boat people from Viet Nam.
Ignoring the genocides in Bosnia, Ruanda, The Congo, Angola, Mozambique etc.
40 million abortions
Neglecting children so you can "do your own thing"
the death of marriage as an institution
I don't think anyone would dispute the suggestion that the Boomers are the "navel gazing" generation. Self-help books, therapy, psychoanalysis, Oprah Winfrey, the explosion of methods to look inward has only increased only time.
Regards, Ivan
The generation responsible for killing over 100 million babies, that's how they will be remembered.
They also popularized the drug culture. Today we have elementary and middle school kids taking drugs.
I never bought into what went on during the 60's, the free love, drugs, etc. I can remember driving through Hait Ashbury and seeing all the hipies and just shaking my head. I didn't understand it then and don't totally understand it now.