baby boomer bashing

[shootingstar]

Ok, so what happens with the next generation? And the millennials?   Are Baby Boomers a Good or Bad Generation? | Psychology Today

It's always great to blame 1 generation for the problems experienced by younger generations.  Meanwhile, enough parents are helping out with child's down payment for home.. 

Yes, I agree boomers probably are tired enough ..they don't feel like fighting ageism in the final stage.  Some just continue to ride bikes as long as they can. What can one do but live out the very best of one's life?

 

Recently, however, criticism directed towards boomers has ramped up, a byproduct of the negative feelings many younger people have about older people in general. Boomers comprise “a bloated pile of historical ego and overinflated cultural self-importance,” wrote Jason Notte in thestreet.com in 2014, a typical example of the tendency among some Gen Xers and millennials to dismiss older Americans’ contributions to society that continue to this day.

In a nutshell, according to many boomer-critics out there, the generation deserves principal blame for most, if not all, of the biggest problems of the country and the world. “Boomers soaked up a lot of economic opportunity without bothering to preserve much for the generations to come,” posited Jim Tankersley, a writer for the Washington Post, the following year, thinking that their main legacy was having “burned a lot of cheap fossil fuels and filling the atmosphere with heat-trapping gases.”

 

If boomers’ collective past has been portrayed as either much ado about nothing or environmentally disastrous, according to such critics, their future is nothing short of apocalyptic. Because of their numbers and greedy tendencies, this theory (backed up by many economists), posits that boomers will wreck the American economy and health care system as they age, with millennials having to pick up the tab. 

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More recently, boomers have failed to form any kind of significant coalition to fight virulent ageism, instead futilely trying to hang on to the remnants of their rapidly fading youth. Given their roots in social activism, this is a lost opportunity, and I urge my fellow boomers to take on the cause in their third act of living in the same way that they combated racial and gender prejudice and unjust war in their first and second acts.

[bikeman564™]

I'm generation X. I think the boomers did good.

[Prophet Zacharia]

11 minutes ago, bikeman564™ said:

I'm generation X. I think the boomers did good.

Yeah, I don’t think the argument is between boomers and gen-xers, we are their offspring and they our parents (my parents were the tail end of the silent generation, but were pretty young kids during the War). 

I think the real culture clash is Boomer-Millennial (and younger).

[shootingstar]

Methinks that the boomers had the benefit of living through very major social and technological change across 2 centuries,  which they themselves have to had to adjust to different behavioural changes/life plan /lifestyle decisions that may be different than their previous family generations. 

• Pre-computer and computers age.
• Pre-Internet and now internet dominating every sphere of life globally.
• Women working in more  numbers in wider range of occupations. And more earning better salaries in various areas.
• So on

I see it as an enormous benefit to have actually lived through the pros and cons of what life was like for the above bulleted points. It gives a person a sense of better balance /perspective IF they know and choose how to adopt to new technologies, ways of living,etc.

 

 

[maddmaxx ★]

There are a lot of assholes out there who flap their gums.

[Kzoo]

27 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

There are a lot of assholes out there who flap their gums.

A lot of them were in your LGS this morning.

[ChrisL]

2 hours ago, shootingstar said:

Ok, so what happens with the next generation? And the millennials?   Are Baby Boomers a Good or Bad Generation? | Psychology Today

It's always great to blame 1 generation for the problems experienced by younger generations.  Meanwhile, enough parents are helping out with child's down payment for home.. 

Yes, I agree boomers probably are tired enough ..they don't feel like fighting ageism in the final stage.  Some just continue to ride bikes as long as they can. What can one do but live out the very best of one's life?

 

Recently, however, criticism directed towards boomers has ramped up, a byproduct of the negative feelings many younger people have about older people in general. Boomers comprise “a bloated pile of historical ego and overinflated cultural self-importance,” wrote Jason Notte in thestreet.com in 2014, a typical example of the tendency among some Gen Xers and millennials to dismiss older Americans’ contributions to society that continue to this day.

In a nutshell, according to many boomer-critics out there, the generation deserves principal blame for most, if not all, of the biggest problems of the country and the world. “Boomers soaked up a lot of economic opportunity without bothering to preserve much for the generations to come,” posited Jim Tankersley, a writer for the Washington Post, the following year, thinking that their main legacy was having “burned a lot of cheap fossil fuels and filling the atmosphere with heat-trapping gases.”

 

If boomers’ collective past has been portrayed as either much ado about nothing or environmentally disastrous, according to such critics, their future is nothing short of apocalyptic. Because of their numbers and greedy tendencies, this theory (backed up by many economists), posits that boomers will wreck the American economy and health care system as they age, with millennials having to pick up the tab. 

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More recently, boomers have failed to form any kind of significant coalition to fight virulent ageism, instead futilely trying to hang on to the remnants of their rapidly fading youth. Given their roots in social activism, this is a lost opportunity, and I urge my fellow boomers to take on the cause in their third act of living in the same way that they combated racial and gender prejudice and unjust war in their first and second acts.

Funny in that there are a lot of snarky comments about Mellenials  from boomer too.  I also think many boomer got a hand out from their parents for their first house, I know my FIL did.

Its the age old dilemma, the kids know it all and the geezers think the kids know nothing.   

[bikeman564™]

2 hours ago, shootingstar said:

• Pre-computer and computers age.
• Pre-Internet and now internet dominating every sphere of life globally.

 

I'm glad, maybe lucky, that I didn't use the internet until I was in my mid 20s. And I had a computer in the house during the latter part of high school. Otherwise I grew up correctly IMO. Seeing how the internet is now, I would never want to be a kid and have access to it.

[Dottleshead ★]

All the made up generations get bashed.  BBers are no exception. 

[Dottleshead ★]

The good thing I can say about the boomers is that they sure did have some good music.

[Ralphie ★]

1 hour ago, ChrisL said:

Funny in that there are a lot of snarky comments about Mellenials  from boomer too.  I also think many boomer got a hand out from their parents for their first house, I know my FIL did.

Its the age old dilemma, the kids know it all and the geezers think the kids know nothing.   

I refrain from milleniel-bashing unlike some of my cohorts. It is just a schtick for some people to bash whatever. 

[ChrisL]

38 minutes ago, bikeman564™ said:

I'm glad, maybe lucky, that I didn't use the internet until I was in my mid 20s. And I had a computer in the house during the latter part of high school. Otherwise I grew up correctly IMO. Seeing how the internet is now, I would never want to be a kid and have access to it.

See that’s just the thing.  Growing up in the 40’s was different than growing up in the 60’s as was growing up in the 80’s and so on.  Kids today can’t relate to what they never experienced just as you can’t relate to kids growing up today.

The old timers say it sucks for kids today and the kids say to the older folks  your childhood must’ve sucked.  The generations just adapt to their times.  

[Kirby ★]

Every generation eventually bashes the others, and it makes for great clickbait.   And if my generation is using up all the economic resources, I want more of my share!!!!

[MickinMD ★]

I don't bash any of the generations because each one had challenges and benefits different than previous generations.

I do bash the politicians and reporters that were/are self-serving and do all they can to convince people that anyone who disagrees with them are trying to destroy America.