The holiday is over time to readjust my thinking and get back to doing what I can do best….
I am what is called a ‘Baby Boomer’ and because of all the turmoil this country has been through I thought I should apologize to the nation for my generation….
Read it here in case you missed it….
Apologies From A Boomer
Yes us Boomers have been doing wrong but under that we did a few things right….so I decided that I should point those out as well….
Over the past few years, Baby Boomers (1946 to 1964) have been getting a lot of grief from the generations that came after them, Gen X (1965 to 1980), Millenials (1981 to 1996), and now, Gen Z (1997 to 2012). Their grievances include environmental destruction, wealth hoarding, political polarization, and being judgemental when they don’t understand how hard it is for younger people to make it in America these days.
Every Baby Boomer is different, so it’s wrong to paint them all with a broad brush. But it’s undeniable that each generation shares common values, and some are bound to come into conflict.
However, life in 2023 isn’t without its annoyances. Many that came about after the technological revolution put a phone in everyone’s hands and brought a whole new host of problems. Add the younger generations’ hands-on approach to child rearing and penchant for outrage, and a lot of modern life has become insufferable.
These problems weren’t created by Boomers but by their hyper-online children and grandchildren who can’t seem to get their faces out of their phones.
A Reddit user named AnitaVodkasoda took to the AskReddit forum and asked posters to admit there were some things that Boomers got right. “What is something you can say ‘I’m with the boomers on this one’ about?” they asked, and many responses came from people fed up with the modern-day frustrations caused by technology and social media.
Here are 19 things that people think that Boomers got right.
https://www.upworthy.com/how-old-are-baby-boomers-right-now-rp2
So you see with all the chaos around our political system there are a few things that us Boomers did right….it is a shame that those advances are overshadowed by the pettiness of politics.
I apologize for the chaos but am damn proud that my principles have not changed in my 76 years.
Enough said.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
I’ve always felt Boomer birth years should be something like 1946 to 1953 or so because the boom is from end of WW II and peace prompted start for creating families. 1954 to 1964 is a whole different birth category not related to end of WW II. You ’47, me ’49 – we are boomers. People born in late 40’s to early 50’s are very different than people born in the next decade. The 10 year difference created people with very different values and incomes and types of work.
Good point Carl. chuq
every snake is different so it is wrong to paint everyone of them with a broad brush too. As for me, I am damned proud to announce that I can change my principles at will. What we Baby Boomers did was to proclaim, early on that we are not going to make the same mistakes our parents made and then proceeded to refine those mistakes and make them worse than the ones our parents made.
I could not and will not be proud of changing my principles….why have any if they do not matter…..that is how we got where we are today….a screwed up society. chuq
We got where we are today because most people cannot analyze wind changes and refuse to go with the flow. Ideally America is a land of the majority opinion and that is the way we should always be…so principles are subject to change and should be subject to change… In fact, basis principles have more or less ini a state of constant evolution…if this were not so, the principles that governed us before the civil war would still be in place right alongside of Jim Crow and all the rest of it.
You change all you want I will remain the stubborn asshole I have always been….and that change is what got us where we are today….good job. chuq
That is why I virtually adore you as a friend…you are steady and dependable and loyal… nobody could ask for more than that and they would be fools if they tried.
Thanx for the kind words John they are much appreciated. chuq
I never waste words.
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Certainly may have started out that way but soon became clones of our parents with kids, job, home mortgage with all the worries that attach themselves. Oh, and now the cardiologist, oncologist, pulmonologist, urologist and the spine bone doctor and the eyes guy too. We meet so regularly and are all on my Christmas card list. Perhaps we should all go on a cruise together. However, we had the very best music…
The music is fantastic even today. chuq
I agree that we were more pricipled, and politically active. We didn’t sit on computer screens complaining, we went onto the streets and changed things with righteous physical protest.
I don’t care what they say about us now, I am proud to come from that generation, and wouldn’t choose to have been born later.
Best wishes, Pete.
I am as well….we stood for something and I still do chuq