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Who's asking and why? .. and get the F out of my five bedroom house with your pinched look of disapproval. And take that Karen from Center For an Urban Future whose pacing off my kitchen sq footage the hell with you. This is not your vibrant inclusive communal space. I paid for it. It's mine. If I want to fill the parlor with hookers and blow and cover the garage with dirt and grow radishes it's nobody's business but mine. If you continue to show disapproval I'll sell it and buy a ten bedroom house and make an indoor gun range out of it. There will still be hookers and blow there too of course.
You'll be in for a sad shock, because things will be much worse by the time all boomers are gone, with no way to reverse them. And that's partly because the blame is on the wrong target, and childishly assuming that target gone will magically make everything better.
Fixing the deep problems was and is a job for all ages and groups, but should have started decades ago, in the 80s, when the messes began, at the hands of pre-boomers (people born 1910-1940). Myths of all problems being "boomer-related" will just continue with more myths, that will solve nothing.
Exactly. A very astute observation.
The trouble is, the vast majority have been totally brainwashed by the same system that began its life at the turn of the last century. Since then, this Ponzi-pyramid scheme otherwise known as the Federal Reserve System (which is not federal, nor has any reserves) has operated for 100 years, extracting the nation’s and the people’s wealth, slowly, but surely, leading to what was predestined right from the moment of its inception.
The so-called “boomers” didn’t create this system … they just flourished in it because of two basic reasons … the first is, the timing. The system hadn’t accumulated enough debt at that point in time to impede financial prosperity for those willing to work and produce and enjoy the benefits of their labor. Secondly, people were not indoctrinated into these Marxist false beliefs that socialism was the answer to society’s problems. In fact, the kiss of death was inextricably tied to even the rumor that a political figure was a socialist, because we could all see the degradation endemic to socialism, because we witnessed it, first from the National Socialists of Germany (Nazis), and soon after, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic.
Fast forward to today, and half of the nation have been brainwashed into being favorable to socialism. Hell, the Democrat Party might as well rename itself as the Communist Party of America, though the name is already spoken for by the small contingent that still manages the organization. They failed, but channeled their support to the democrat party.
When I fist started reading some of the posts on this thread, I first thought it was a parody, like something you’d find on The Onion, until I realized it wasn’t. So, here is a list of things that are much higher on the blame schedule than just idiotically assigning it to a particular generation referred to as “baby boomers”:
1) the complete lack of knowledge and understanding of history by those generations coming after the boomers.
2) the arrested development of young males who spend more time on skateboards, playing video games, and looking for the latest trend in metro sexual fashion, and how to twirl their hair into man buns.
3) the belief that a carefree, work free lifestyle is owed to them, simply because their mothers got pregnant and didn’t abort them out of pure convenience.
4) those whose ultimate career goal is to be the worlds greatest snow boarders, signing lucrative endorsement contracts so they can live their entire lives as permanent teenagers, or become instagram influencers who teach others all about life, even though they don’t know any more about life than the average baby boomer when they were 10 years old.
5) that everything should be free … because the idea that one must work to gain prosperity in life is an obsolete concept, and not fair or very much fun.
6) when they fail, it’s always someone else’s fault, guaranteeing that they will never learn from their own mistakes, because they never make any.
This is my husband. When we first got married, he said he was going to work until he dropped dead. Now, he is planning to retire in 2.5 years when my youngest graduates high school.
Millennials’ parents are majority boomers and some early Gen X.
I thought it was the other way around, interesting. Probably because the majority of people I know are Gen X and their parents are boomers, including myself.
I keep reading that families today average less than 2 kids. Who needs the 5 bedroom house?
Because many use homes to build wealth. Some friends of ours have no kids, she's a nurse, he paints cars. They live in a 3000 sqft $600k home on the water that is almost paid off.
The trouble is, the vast majority have been totally brainwashed by the same system that began its life at the turn of the last century. Since then, this Ponzi-pyramid scheme otherwise known as the Federal Reserve System (which is not federal, nor has any reserves) has operated for 100 years, extracting the nation’s and the people’s wealth, slowly, but surely, leading to what was predestined right from the moment of its inception.
The so-called “boomers” didn’t create this system … they just flourished in it because of two basic reasons … the first is, the timing. The system hadn’t accumulated enough debt at that point in time to impede financial prosperity for those willing to work and produce and enjoy the benefits of their labor. Secondly, people were not indoctrinated into these Marxist false beliefs that socialism was the answer to society’s problems. In fact, the kiss of death was inextricably tied to even the rumor that a political figure was a socialist, because we could all see the degradation endemic to socialism, because we witnessed it, first from the National Socialists of Germany (Nazis), and soon after, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic.
Fast forward to today, and half of the nation have been brainwashed into being favorable to socialism. Hell, the Democrat Party might as well rename itself as the Communist Party of America, though the name is already spoken for by the small contingent that still manages the organization. They failed, but channeled their support to the democrat party.
When I fist started reading some of the posts on this thread, I first thought it was a parody, like something you’d find on The Onion, until I realized it wasn’t. So, here is a list of things that are much higher on the blame schedule than just idiotically assigning it to a particular generation referred to as “baby boomers”:
1) the complete lack of knowledge and understanding of history by those generations coming after the boomers.
2) the arrested development of young males who spend more time on skateboards, playing video games, and looking for the latest trend in metro sexual fashion, and how to twirl their hair into man buns.
3) the belief that a carefree, work free lifestyle is owed to them, simply because their mothers got pregnant and didn’t abort them out of pure convenience.
4) those whose ultimate career goal is to be the worlds greatest snow boarders, signing lucrative endorsement contracts so they can live their entire lives as permanent teenagers, or become instagram influencers who teach others all about life, even though they don’t know any more about life than the average baby boomer when they were 10 years old.
5) that everything should be free … because the idea that one must work to gain prosperity in life is an obsolete concept, and not fair or very much fun.
6) when they fail, it’s always someone else’s fault, guaranteeing that they will never learn from their own mistakes, because they never make any.
The trouble is, the vast majority have been totally brainwashed by the same system that began its life at the turn of the last century. Since then, this Ponzi-pyramid scheme otherwise known as the Federal Reserve System (which is not federal, nor has any reserves) has operated for 100 years, extracting the nation’s and the people’s wealth, slowly, but surely, leading to what was predestined right from the moment of its inception.
The so-called “boomers” didn’t create this system … they just flourished in it because of two basic reasons … the first is, the timing. The system hadn’t accumulated enough debt at that point in time to impede financial prosperity for those willing to work and produce and enjoy the benefits of their labor. Secondly, people were not indoctrinated into these Marxist false beliefs that socialism was the answer to society’s problems. In fact, the kiss of death was inextricably tied to even the rumor that a political figure was a socialist, because we could all see the degradation endemic to socialism, because we witnessed it, first from the National Socialists of Germany (Nazis), and soon after, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic.
Fast forward to today, and half of the nation have been brainwashed into being favorable to socialism. Hell, the Democrat Party might as well rename itself as the Communist Party of America, though the name is already spoken for by the small contingent that still manages the organization. They failed, but channeled their support to the democrat party.
When I fist started reading some of the posts on this thread, I first thought it was a parody, like something you’d find on The Onion, until I realized it wasn’t. So, here is a list of things that are much higher on the blame schedule than just idiotically assigning it to a particular generation referred to as “baby boomers”:
1) the complete lack of knowledge and understanding of history by those generations coming after the boomers.
2) the arrested development of young males who spend more time on skateboards, playing video games, and looking for the latest trend in metro sexual fashion, and how to twirl their hair into man buns.
3) the belief that a carefree, work free lifestyle is owed to them, simply because their mothers got pregnant and didn’t abort them out of pure convenience.
4) those whose ultimate career goal is to be the worlds greatest snow boarders, signing lucrative endorsement contracts so they can live their entire lives as permanent teenagers, or become instagram influencers who teach others all about life, even though they don’t know any more about life than the average baby boomer when they were 10 years old.
5) that everything should be free … because the idea that one must work to gain prosperity in life is an obsolete concept, and not fair or very much fun.
6) when they fail, it’s always someone else’s fault, guaranteeing that they will never learn from their own mistakes, because they never make any.
When the war comes, and it will, these people are going to be in for a rude awakening. Of course by then, it will be too late to save America. The man bun wearing, shrunken suit wearing guys aren't going to save us.
I have seen a shift at least in the circle of personal acquittances who have a semblance of an epistemic toolkit, we seem to have agreement even if difference on political affiliation. Boomers were just at the right place at the right time, after WW2 we had the enactment of the Bretton woods global economy, we doubled down on MAD and said if money can be created out of thin air and inflation can be controlled via subsidies, an ever expanding economy will ensure prosperity for the western world along with mutual assured destruction, a globalized supply chain that would exponentially increase the cost of war to capital, thats how we extracted prosperity and stopped WW3. Flash forward the boomers gained much of that advantage, we are running into environmental limits, tragedy of the commons dynamics affecting several markets including our information commons, this is broken and the generation that saw the decline (gen X) and the people feeling the decline (milennials and gen z) they are kinda pissed.
In general how I feel about younger people, me being a xennial, is shaped by my interactions with my kids. My daughter had a hard time conditioning, the idea of what the marketing tells you versus how you really have to be behave in real life. We tell them growing up to share, be kind, what is mine is yours, all these grandiose ideas and morals, but in practice you step over homeless people. We have preached to these kids about work and life balance, how your job doesn't define you, then we act surprised when they ask for that. We have told them if you don't stand up for something you fall for everything, but then tell them to **** and dribble. If you think about the way you are thought things should be, and the way things are you would have all kinds of mental issues too. Its not clear to me generationally why its different, why did these kids really believed us, I went to sunday school I got the same spiel from my dad, I dont know that i didn't explicitly believed but the real world that I lived in informed me otherwise, I guess since these kids live in great part in a virtual world where people virtue signal and give the appearance that the world is that good when it isnt.
Exactly.
1) the complete lack of knowledge and understanding of history by those generations coming after the boomers.
^^this.
Since the decision in the mid 90s to remove contemporary US and world history from the curriculum...(the "singularity") IF a person was in the school system from 94 on, they are woefully ignorant.
Sadly, it was determined that denying this knowledge was a per-requisite to create what we have today. and it has enabled and fostered these inane data points and discussions that emanate from the MSM and shows like the view, today etc.
No one paid attention THEN, I hope they are paying attention now where the new sexy is to remove mathematics. Thereby guaranteeing the US population are no better than drones...
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