RSSThe boomers were the ones who disrespected their elders. Of course the world always had problems, but no one saw their generation is “special” and needed to name their own generation before the boomers. The boomers gave young people the idea that its smart to tell older generations “you old people just can’t understand me!!!”
At worst the boomers are merely getting a taste of their own medicine and seeing what they did to disrespect the ancestors.
We lost connection with a lot of ancient wisdom because the boomers were dumb enough to think there is anything such as a “new era” or a special generation. Life and the laws that govern it are eternal, boomers disrespected that and future generations will have to repair that.
No one is saying everyone in that age bracket is bad. In the boomers defense two generations of American fathers had been lost fighting Europe’s wars and the boomers were raised by a lot of men with undiagnosed PTSD.
So reject it. That was a vocal, if well-placed-- minority anyway, smaller than the contemporaneous cohort that served in Vietnam. Or even died in Vietnam.
The boomers were the ones who disrespected their elders. Of course the world always had problems, but no one saw their generation is “special” and needed to name their own generation before the boomers.
Again, just a minority. And that phenomenon had been seen earlier, e.g., in the Jazz Age. "Progressivism" caught on in the 19th century, not the 1960s. Before that, it was called "the Enlightenment". (Thomas Fleming of the Rockford Institute calls it "the Endarkenment".)One of my two favorite Michael Medved columns* described just how square 1969 really was. Look at the best-selling songs of that year. For every "Whole Lotta Love" there was a "Love is Blue". Nixon's "silent majority" reached well into the younger generation. I was a junior-high kid in a college town, and saw the phenomenon close-up.Popular music really went to hell in the 1970s. And got worse in each decade which followed. Even the "tasteful" stuff suffered-- from Andy Williams to the Carpenters to Barry Manilow to Rick Astley to... is anybody left?
The boomers gave young people the idea that its smart to tell older generations “you old people just can’t understand me!!!”
If Trump had not run, Jeb Bush would have been president, not Hillary. Either way, even people who hate Trump owe him some gratitude for that.
Did Obama get thrown out of office for abusing NSA data… or did he suddenly become wiling to illegally invade Libya and Syria right before the story disappeared?
Did Clinton get thrown out of office for perjuring himself in an assault trial, obstructing justice and threatening underlings…or did he suddenly become willing to repeal Glass-Stegal, bomb innocent Serbs and civilian infrastructure and withdraw inspectors from Iraq so he could start bombing Iraq again (Operation Desert Fox)?
I am not saying one way or other for sure, but past history is not in your favor. Your analysis is the standard assumption most people would make about what is going on. It may be right, but doesn’t seem to fit what has actually happened the last two times we went through all this.