6518

I think Boomers are fucked up because of lead. My grandmother grew up in the depression, my Grandpa emigrated from Poland to the US in the 30s to flee from Nazis. My mom is the 2nd youngest of their kids, born in 61.

My mom used to be cool. She grew up in the 60s and 70s. She smoked weed. She had Sabbath and Zeppelin records (She still has them because she’s a hoarder). She watched cool movies.

Now in she’s pushing 60 and is in the total Fox News bubble. I grew up going to church but the church became more and more about hate and less about love as I got older. As the WW2 generation died and their kids took over, all the lessons about love thy neighbor and give unto Ceasar disappeared and was replaced by “Roll call in Hell” and “Democrats are in league with Satan”.

Really I think it’s the lead. Unleaded gasoline started getting phased in during the 70s so I largely missed the lead poisoning. The boomers formative years was like peak lead saturation. That shit makes you violent, paranoid, crazy, and mean. It’s gotta be the lead poisoning just slowly turning them evil.

6519

The GI Bill has been avaliable for millenials as well, if they choosed and were able to serve honorably in the military. It saved my life.

6520

I’m 60 in a year and a half and I’m an entrenched liberal who likes cool, geeky stuff. I haven’t changed that much, although a “cool movie” to me now is a character-driven film. How did your mom vote when she was younger? She may have always been a bit conservative politically. There are plenty of people who smoke weed like it’s going out of style, listen to metal, and are hardcore conservatives.

6521

You can’t tell me what to do. :)

Look, I know you guys are generalizing and don’t really think every boomer is some evil Gordon Gecko loving midwestern racist homo hating misogynist. But just like millennials aren’t all lazy scrubs not all boomers are evil environmental hating hicks.

I find it sad and a waste of time for any group to “blame” another group for all their problems and the problems of the world. That usually isn’t true and it usually doesn’t work out so well.

6522

Well now, ain’t that just a convenient position for you to take, considering your group is to blame for all the problems in the world! ;)

6523

I never really thought that. But I came out of the 60’s with a weird kind of “trauma” I guess. I was 13 in 1968. There was political assassinations taking place in America in a way it never had before, or since really. There was JFK, RFK, MLK…then later Wallace and Ford. To this day the first thing I think of when a TV show is interrupted for “Breaking News” is that the president has been shot, or someone of importance.

6524

Everyone younger than me is an idiot, and everyone older than me has their head up their ass!

6525

My momma didn’t raise no fool. :)

6526

Similar to what George Carlin said about drivers: “Everyone who drives slower than you do is an idiot, and everyone who drives faster is a maniac.”

6527

What’s absolutely DELICIOUS right now with the “prevent a shutdown” negotiations is that in the House, the Republicans have a majority and don’t need the Dems at all, yet they have to go begging to them because the Freedom Caucus be cray.

6528

The primary issue here is the Millennials are not in charge. Gen X has some control but they’re small. The state of the country as it is today, is because of the Boomers. It’s that generation that’s in control. I certainly won’t fault any generation because they don’t hoard pennies, resew socks twenty times, hide money in their mattresses and didn’t fight in WW2.

There is something seriously wrong with the group, as a whole but not necessarily down to each individual, when we have collapsed bridges, like shit just rusting out and falling apart, and people dying as result and the response is let’s give more money to the rich and not fix our infrastructure. It’s literally watching what their parents and their parent’s parents built fall apart and shrugging.You can’t blame Gen X which I think will be largely overlooked outside of ownership and creation of certain companies, and Millennials for that today. It is the Boomers.

And I think someone above said something about the great generation didn’t solve racism. I am just going to say what the hell… no one has solved racism. No one. It’s not solved.

6529

That was me. Of course it’s not solved. Blaming them for not solving racism is like blaming boomers for not solving climate change. Neither problem is going to be solved by a single generation.

So instead people point fingers at boomers for “not doing enough”… in which case you can also point fingers at the greatest generation regarding racism. But George Carlin had it right when it comes to finger pointing.

6530

This is what it comes down to.

The world that we see today, is largely the result of the Boomers’ leadership.

What probably makes me most annoyed, is that they have the balls to blame young people for the problems.

The Boomers mortgaged the future of everyone else, in very real and concrete ways.

Maybe some day some future generation will be blaming Xers and millennials… But I think not, because we are at the point where if we don’t fix it, we are fucked.

6531

ROLLEYES

Sorry, can’t help it. I’m GenX

6532

Again, I would blame the generation that caused WW1. It was their leadership that led to almost everything you see in the world today. Industrialism, militarism, communism, the Great Depression, and eventually WW2. The world as you see it today was shaped by those events and no generation has figured out how to escape those repercussions.

6533

All I know as an older Millennial is that I’ll at least be able to afford my avocado toast habit as I watch the Boomers in control of government and corporations burn the world down around us all.

6534

I don’t think that’s equivalent at all. You look at developing countries and you see rivers of garbage. Here, in the states, we had rivers actually catch on fire, because of the dumping from companies. I think trying to solve climate change will largely be in the same ballpark as the war on terrorism. As mentioned above, you cannot win a war against terror. There is no ending point. We’re not going to solve racism, or population, or terrorism. We can largely address it though.

Boomers tried to address racism and now a splinter group of theirs is wallowing in it, trying to unravel their legacy for a few more bucks in retirement.

6535
6536

No, dude. It doesn’t work like that.

Boomers were in control of the world for decades. It was your job to fix that stuff.

6537

So each generation is responsible for the shit the generations before them created. Except for boomers, they were supposed to solve it all. Gotcha.

A situation that was much improved by Boomers taking over from the greatest generation and adding some responsibility to environmental protections. :)

So for how many years are the boomers supposed to be the controlling factor of the world. A generation is what, 20 years, yet boomers get the blame for the last 50 or so. Seems fair.