The End of Boomer Weirdness?

I am trying to have an argument, but the fat-gutted gutless wonder wardaddy will only call names and not debate the point in contention - namely the toxic cultural baggage carried by boomer leftists, which is the point of the article.

Great contributions of boomers - let's see:

Unix - oops that was create by Ritchie et al, who were pre boomers.

Oh, the integrated circuit - whoops - Robert Noyce - born 1927.

Oh - Genetic engineering - PCR and Kary Mullis - whoops a pre boomer.

But that great boomers Bill Gates did invent Windoze. Wonderful product. Absolutely wonderful - not.

Actually, I have not denied that boomers have done things. But political leadership? Common. Name one. And I dare you to toss out the easy skeet shot GWB and the good ol boys he brought to town.

The leftists of your generation are just as unsane and I do believe there are more.

While I am awfully tempted to let your attacks ad hominem just lie there, I am concerned for the state of your soul and that of others who might be suckered in by your glib accusations, and therefore I am going to address this. It is not clear exactly where to start, since you and your partner in warcrimes here have put an awful lot out there.

First, if you want to evict me from your milieu - even though I date from the early 1950's - that is just fine with me. I consider my generational colleagues to be a hugely and embarassingly parasitic and foolishly deluded lot and wish I could repudiate the generation I was born into.

But the real issue is the philosophical poison that our milieu has put forth, that has seeped into the canals of our ears and courses through the blood flowing through our brains. And, when I say my milieu, I grew up with and went to school and college with those who are among the worst of the leftist radical leadership. They were born into radicalism, baptized into radicalism, and live and breath radicalism. These are the folks who deliberately rejected classics as texts written by dead white males and the bible as just one point of view. While their/our teachers were schooled in Karl Marx, our radical generation rejected even reading Marx, whose writings are densely academic, instead reading 2nd and 3rd generation derivative slop. These are the guys, who when they were done not serving in Vietnam trashed our military, tried to make common cause with the Soviet Union against Reagan, and make common cause today with Radical Islam. These are the guys and gals who were masters of the spin-cycle we experienced under Clinton, where what dominated the senior levels of the DC establishment was not substance, but control of what appeared above the fold in the Washington Post. It was a poor substitute for the thrill of the 60s, but you had to take your action where you could get it.

And this same philosophy, based on a generational self-referential temper tantrum against the WWII crowd, cast loose from the anchor of eternal truths, redefined modern economic life, organizations where productivity matters much less than Dilbert like jibber jabber, where the risk off too much debt is offset by too many derivatives, and invented the service economy, and the information economy, all built on new finance which involves getting folks overseas to do the heavy lifting while we stuff their bank vaults full of green tinted paper with pictures of dead white males on them - such is the value of our dead white males.

That it all came apart in the last couple of weeks, with the hangover of Bear Streans, the hair of the dog of Freddie and Fannie, and a young lady wagging here moose killing trigger finger and speaking a few words of common sense.

It wasn't you baby boomers that brought down this house of cards, but someone much younger, with guts, fire in her belly and some common sense.

So expel me if you want. I am sick to death of your kind of whining gut-shot caterwauling. I will happily join her generation. While I may be a bit old for moose hunting, a generation of fattened squealing over-pampered pigs should be an easy target and require minimal hunting skill.

Whenever I have conversations with my son about this stuff - and believe me, his generation knows what we have done to them - all I can do is try to explain where it went wrong, apologize, pass on some lessons about what it is going to take to undo the mess, and ask him not to order up euthanasia - or worse - against his own parents. Oh, by the way - while our generation was draft-dodging, his generation is over in Iraq bearing arms honorably, except that when a 19 year old comes back, having killed some terrorists, he has to face charges preferred by - guess who - more screwed up Boomers, overseen by senior officials and a President who are also baby boomers.

Yes, we boomers are just Great.

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