Infantile America

Men's News Daily ^ | 8/16/07 | Thomas Brewton

[Constantine XIII]

tl;dr

[grellis]

I’m in mid-Michigan also. The only folks I know around here who come under the heading of “free love, flower children, commune living hippies that never outgrew that era” are the profs at MSU—and very, very few of them are from this area. There are plenty of GenXers and GenYers who would fit the bill, but very few Boomers.

[Clemenza]

It was the boomers who brought us the most prosperous era over the past century of American History. It was the boomers that designed the leveraged buyout (allowing companies with poor credit to raise necessary funds, while adding greater competative efficiency within doddering industries), and overall liberalized the economy through innovation and the repeal of Depression-era restrictions.

I'm sick of this BS about the boomers being "evil narcissists" and their parents being heroes (the WWII generation had plenty of socialists and racists too, and gave us Democratic dominance from the 1950s-early 90s).

[Clemenza]

BRAVO to your comment #4. Wasn’t Richard Pryor in “Wild in the Streets” or was it the “Strawberry Statement” I’m thinking of?

[Clemenza]

The purpose is clear: to sufficiently undermine our currency through infusion of worthless dollars from the fed, purportedly to shore-up bank liquidity, but in reality to bring the dollar even with the peso, so that we can be merged with Mexico.

Yeah, don't get me started on how they want to corrupt our "precious bodily fluids."

[sauropod]

review

[wtc911]

Pryor was in Wild in the Streets...big movie then, silly now.

[GOP_1900AD]

I could see this coming during the 1980s. Today’s creaky boomers were doing coke and driving Beemers, buying espresso machines and going gaga over “The Big Chill” and “30something.” I realize this is a broad brush, only applicable to well edumacated, middle to upper class boomers, the working class ones were and are different (mostly, due to fighting in Vietnam, or, at least, having accepted the possibility of fighting overseas between ‘75 and say, ‘80, due to other issues). That yuppie mentality now reaps its bitter harvest.