Whilst the comments you make are obviously true, for the most part, so they are true for the ills of all generations. Go back to the Great Depression during the thirties and the war that followed it, which generation do you imagine got the blame for that. Go back still further to the first world war, a truly stupid waste of life and time, which generation do you imagine got the blame for that. Selfishness is a hallmark of the world we live in. So is making mistakes and dare I say it generelisations. Once again the press and the media are behind setting people at each others throats. In contrast to the current wholesale condemnation of the Baby Boomer generation, I think you should remember, that they fought for America in the Vietnam war (and many died) they have lavished more on their children than any generation previously (interestingly according to an American by the name of Rob Gettemy, a highly religious man running a site called 'A million people for Jesus', the baby Boomers are all child haters) and they have contributed a great deal of money in tax. They were also the first generation to realise that the human race was polluting the planet, not something America accepts I know, but it is so never the less. I feel that bashing the Baby Boomers has become a new topic, probably because those who like to write articles and spout for a living, have begun to realise there is limited millage left in bashing the Gays. I am a Baby Boomer, getting on for eighty million people were and you need to ask yourself, can you really lump such a large number of people together and write them off in this way, no of course you can't. They have not lived in isolation from other generations. They have shared government and industry with other generations, their progress or otherwise has been influenced by other generations. During the good times there were plenty of people from an older generation than the boomers, that enjoyed the comforts of retirement given to them, care for the elderly has improved overall during the boomer generation, at least it has in Europe, nothing much seems to improve in America, education health care research and gift aid have all grown during this time. It is high time we stopped this nonsense and realised that there are people good and bad in all generations. Speaking as a Baby Boomer I shall be glad when my time is done. I shall at least hear no more of the eternal belch of the press, the christian right wing and above probably all the self righteous American laying the blame at the door of everybody else.
The Shallowest Generation [View article]