Move over, boomer bastards
The Airing of Grievances says what we’ve all been thinking, but couldn’t say when we were home at Christmas:
The one thing you won’t here any pundit say is the simple fact that the Baby Boomer Generation is fucking bankrupt - politically and intellectually bankrupt since at least Watergate, but probably back as far as when they booed Dylan off the stage for “going electric” and “selling out”. This election is about nothing more than whether or not America can stand another minute of leadership by the “Selfishest Generation.” And that is what the AofG is gonna talk about right after the jump…
The Boomer Generation. You hear the platitudes everywhere from Dennis Hopper waxing poetic for a financial planning firm to the History Channel talking about the way America changed for good in 1946. But the thing is, it’s true - for better or worse, our economy, our lifestyle, and our future has been tied to them for 60 years now.
However, for all the talk, The Boomer Generation has done nothing for this country but consume since they were conceived. The computer revolution, you say? Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were born in ‘55, 10 years after the true Boomers, and were teenagers in the 70’s, not the 60’s. 80’s prosperity? Driven by yuppie bankers and lawyers. The internet boom? Come on - the Boomers were already middle aged by then and still don’t get what it’s all about. Hell the hippie movement was intellectually derivative of, and lead by the Beats, most of them 10 years older than the Boomers - even Dylan was born before WWII. Nope, the Boomers just provided the bad clothes and the easy chicks to make it saleable.
And maybe that’s the point. Maybe a generation so concerned with “fighting the establishment” in a quest to do basically whatever the fuck it wanted to is ill-equipped to lead. Maybe it’s great leaders tuned in and dropped out too early. Maybe these guys didn’t have a chance, since they had the world handed to them by their parent’s generation - you know, the ones who grew up during the Depression and then saved the fucking world, and their kids decided to spend those riches on whatever the first national marketeers could sell them.
Fuck you, Mom and Dad.
