Comment 62958

By Kiely (registered) | Posted May 02, 2011 at 15:17:02 in reply to Comment 62918

I believe one of the main problems with the Baby Boom generation and why it has become increasingly popular to criticize them (I'm not above it myself) is the propaganda and rhetoric that surrounds the generation and has become part of their mythos: countercultures, student protest, the beats, hippies, Woodstock, "revolutions", etc… is so askew to the modern realities that era led to. They are often romanticized, celebrated and self-congratulated for being more progressive, accepting, and enlightened than the generation before. But to younger eyes, often the Baby Boomer legacy does not warrant the celebration.

So posts like TreyS' are a predictable backlash to the media-fueled self-importance of the Baby Boomers.

That does not mean you can blame the entire generation (I would not blame any entire generation for anything). Out of that generation came some genuinely compassionate people who stayed true to their convictions well beyond the Reagan years. If you have ever had the opportunity to talk to one of them, read some of their works or listened to their music, you'll hear about fairness, free and equal education, looking out for the little guy and about beliefs and truths long buried by media obfuscation, "official histories" and the meaningless narcissistic pursuits my generation and those younger have been subjected to.

However in defense of TreyS I will say this. Having read, listened and been personally lectured to by Boomers, many of them were not without some amount of antipathy towards certain elements of their generation… and could be far more vitriolic about those elements than TreyS' post.

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