Speaking as an early Xer (1967) with Boomer parents I'd like to give my own observations about the Boomer generation from my personal perspective.
My parents and all of their friends jumped on every popular "bandwagon". During my lifetime I watched them go from embracing the hippie lifestyle to becoming bikers, then on to the Disco scene followed by becoming swingers, then on to being Urban Cowboys- which ultimately led to divorce for all once that became common. While all this was going on the kids were all either being raised mostly by grandparents or fending for themselves and their younger siblings.
Our parents loved us but loved themselves more, we were abused and neglected, we were expected to be adults from a very young age- and then they have the nerve to wonder why we're so nihilistic and apathetic.
Why should anyone have expected Boomers to treat the world in general any better than they treated their own children? It was always only about appearances and never substance. Did they build some stuff? Sure, but only so they could get credit and accolades rather than out of a true desire to better the world.
That is MY truth and the truth of the majority of the people I grew up with.
My parents and all of their friends jumped on every popular "bandwagon". During my lifetime I watched them go from embracing the hippie lifestyle to becoming bikers, then on to the Disco scene followed by becoming swingers, then on to being Urban Cowboys- which ultimately led to divorce for all once that became common. While all this was going on the kids were all either being raised mostly by grandparents or fending for themselves and their younger siblings.
Our parents loved us but loved themselves more, we were abused and neglected, we were expected to be adults from a very young age- and then they have the nerve to wonder why we're so nihilistic and apathetic.
Why should anyone have expected Boomers to treat the world in general any better than they treated their own children? It was always only about appearances and never substance. Did they build some stuff? Sure, but only so they could get credit and accolades rather than out of a true desire to better the world.
That is MY truth and the truth of the majority of the people I grew up with.
As an American it's your responsibility to have your own strategic duck stockpile. You can't expect the government to do it for you.
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