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Boomers are romantics with the full force of nihilism driving their boats onto the rocks. The sirens song means death is attractive — and it is necessary to think so growing up on romantic existentialism — while at the same time they crave special entitlements, special pleadings to live the live forever dream of the 60s hippie youth crowd. They are a mixed bag to live such a mixed up life, a life that is narcissistic and shallow, and luxuriously decadent at its core.

As a boomer who has fought this all my life, I think your assessment of boomers is spot on. This is a group of folks whose moral compasses gyrate wildly on their axes, influenced by greed, ambition, stupidity and the fear that if they point a finger, one will be pointed straight back. They all live insipid lives of meaninglessness.

The latest mantra, if "professionalism," which seems to be an invocation that you stop trying to do the right thing because it will cause dissention and hurt feelings.

WFB once wrote that principles have sharp edges which cut deeply. How can a generation grow up never having been scarred by having to reconcile an action with principle?