> If the WWII generation was the greatest generation, as Brokaw put it, then the baby-boomers are the worst since the Dark Ages. For all their high-minded ideal

> If the WWII generation was the greatest generation, as Brokaw put it, then the baby-boomers are the worst since the Dark Ages. For all their high-minded idealism they've created a society, at least in US, that is more divisive than it's ever been. I've been waiting for a substantial book to come out on this subject. Browsing through Amazon.com I don't see much that really nails it. It's a cultural thing too- for instance I see the whole Leno/Conan debacle as a generational conflict that the Baby Boomers won because of sheer numbers and technological dispositions. Instead there are a lot of books about how the Baby Boomers "are changing everything...again" in retirement. EDIT TO ADD: Obviously the Occupy Wall Street protests are another manifestation of this with BBs' refrain of "what are they protesting?"