BDBoop
Platinum Member
- Banned
- #21
he's right.
boomers - get.the.fuck.out.of.our.way.
Not so fast, child! There are just a few things you and the author of that piece of drivel seem to have forgotten. To begin with, not all of us were a bunch of spoiled, tie-dyed, long haired, drug-abusing, hippie, wannabe rebels in the first place. We weren't all raised according to the Doctor Spock permissive school of child rearing, and we weren't mindless followers of this trend or that. Some of us were and are actually achievers and leaders; we served our country, even when it was unpopular; we were too busy doing that, and spending our college days actually going to class and learning, to have time to attend protest marches, go to Woodstock, or drop acid. We left that, and the politics that came with it, up to our angst-ridden, true-believing, "let's all run amok" co-evals, (obviously the sort who raised you). We didn't sell out; we never "turned on, tuned in, and dropped out" in the first place. Instead of wandering about trying to "find ourselves", we found jobs, went to work, and raised our kids in a decent home, not on some free-love commune.
Eventually, some of our hippie brethren figured out that we must be doing something right after all, and decided to grow up and join the real world, too. Of course, being a little behind the curve, many of them are still trying to figure out how to save enough to retire on. As for us, we DON'T eat tofu and bean sprouts, we DON'T wear Birkenstocks, Tilley hats, and Crocs, and we are too busy enjoying life to worry about the futility of trying to live forever; in the words of Jimmy Buffett, "I'd rather die while I'm living, than live while I'm dead!"
As for your generation, most of you seem to be as spoiled, clueless, aimless, and slack as the worst of our generation; hell, some of you are in your thirties, and still living under your parents' roof! Don't fret too much, you will eventually have your turn at being in charge, when (and if) you ever grow up. As it is, the "Greatest Generation" is pretty much gone, we are at the age where people acquire money and power, and it is likely even the older ones of us will be around for a while yet, so I'm afraid you will just have to wait your turn at the levers of power. Meanwhile, enjoy that exaggerated opinion of your self-worth and abilities that Mommy, Daddy, and your professors at college gave you; the rest of us know better, and at this point, Junior, most of you have not actually proved diddly squat.
The "Greatest Generation" made its mistakes, we made our mistakes, and believe me, your generation will make your mistakes; you are NOT perfect, either, nor do you know it all, nor do you have all the answers. In time you will learn that wisdom comes as much from knowing just how much you don't know, as it does from what you do know. In the meantime, I suggest you sit down, shut up, pay attention, and try to learn something from those who have had just a bit more life experience than you; it is just possible we know a few things you do not.
Please tell me you have written a book, that I may purchase it.