Actual Boomer here just to say; 1000% THIS. I am sick to death of my smug, clueless, generational peers who only seem capable of shitting on other people whilst constantly bitching about every little thing they don't like. I am ashamed to be a member of a group that history will judge as being the WORST generation, that took everything, gave nothing back and destroyed the society, infrastructure and possibley the planet. (Assuming we survive long enough to have a future history).
EDIT: Thanks for all the comments and awards, kind strangers!
Yeah, it feels like a lot of Boomers want to take credit for "changing the world", and now think nothing should ever change again. For all the "I want my kids to have it better than I did" talk I heard growing up, it seems like a lot of older people are galled that their children and grandchildren actually want to have it better than they did.
Well, they had to prove that they were “better”than their parents generation, who fought and died as heros in 2 world wars, came fighting back from the Great Depression and oversaw some of the most sweeping cultural and technological changes we’ve seen to date. It’s weird to think about the complete swing from ending WWII to a whole generation of teenagers running away to join communes 20yrs later. Those teenagers are the ones running the country now.
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u/ashleyriddell61 Mar 12 '21 edited Mar 13 '21
Actual Boomer here just to say; 1000% THIS. I am sick to death of my smug, clueless, generational peers who only seem capable of shitting on other people whilst constantly bitching about every little thing they don't like. I am ashamed to be a member of a group that history will judge as being the WORST generation, that took everything, gave nothing back and destroyed the society, infrastructure and possibley the planet. (Assuming we survive long enough to have a future history).
EDIT: Thanks for all the comments and awards, kind strangers!