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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 idealis
by jleyank 15y ago
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.
Note: remember your history. There was this little jungle war thingie in Vietnam (started by the Boomer parents) that sorta pissed people off and divided the country. The 2006 election showed that in full glory, leading many to comment that post-Nam people should run. And, for the most part, they did.
Boomers were the hippies, but their time spawned Quebec nationalism here in Canada, and probably had a little to do with the Prague Spring, ...
- hugh3 15y agoBoomers were the hippies But y'see, this is the problem with these sorts of generalizations. The vast majority of boomers weren't hippies. The vast majority of them were sensible people who finished their education, got jobs, got married, raised families, and lived like people have always lived. Similarly, the so-called Generations X and Y and the millenials and however you want to divide us up. Most of us have been doing the same thing. We all grow up, we all get jobs, we all have children. Half of us wind up voting one way, half of us wind up voting the other way. That's not to deny that there are certainly cultural changes over the years, these are obvious to everybody. But a few thousand people making a lot of noise in the direct sight of some TV cameras isn't a cultural movement, it's just Al Capone dancing the Charleston on top of a flagpole.