Ok, so I’ve been thinking about this post for a while, and thought I should get some things off my chest. I fucking hate the baby boom generation, and here’s why.
1. Terrible divorce rates and crappy parenting. Seriously. All my friends are like crazy fucked up around marriage and parenthood issues, because all of our parents were so damned crazy and messed up themselves. Look, I’m sorry, but relationships are about commitment and compromise, two traits this narcissistic over-privileged generation never learned. So now we’re left overthinking this shit all the time.
2. Every time they take a shit, it ends up on the cover of Newsweek or Time. I mean really, how many times do I have to hear about the baby boomer’s problems or half successes? Ohhhh, Paul McCartney is 64! How fucking ironic! Ohhhhh, a show about 30-somethings! Wow! I need parachute pants to hide my boner now!
3. They changed the world man! They stopped a war! They blah blah blah. Never mind that the civil rights & women’s rights movements had been active for decades, or wait a second, how about that their parent’s generation stopped Hitler? It’s as if they were the only generation that ever cared about anything, when in fact a small percentage got invovled for a couple years becaue the drugs were cheap and it was easy to get laid.
4. The Doors. C’mon baby, could you be more lame? Putting the king of narcissism, and misogynist extraordinare, up on the pedestal like that is perhaps the greatest failing of the baby boom generation. Christ, could you embrace a bigger douchebag as your hero?
I’m out of steam here. Have I gotten my point across? I hope so. Tomorrow? Why I totally <3 Built to Spill, and the kids of the boomers.
January 9, 2008 at 10:33 pm |
5. Their unwillingness to die young en masse thereby saddling our generation with a massive burning hole in our social welfare system.
And yeah, fuck the Doors.
January 10, 2008 at 7:05 am |
6. Making selling out OK, and deciding that if it was a feeling it was not just OK to have it, but also to act on it. But, I did my marching, now it’s OK for me to have a huge fucking house and buy all the shit I ever wanted! Because I sold out and I have all this fucking money now and no fucking soul, and I can’t remember why I ever cared about anything!
Leading gracefully in to the gernal marketing frenzy that was the ’80’s, and subsequently leading to the decline of everything I like, like air and water quality, and the plentiful availability of pants that are tighter then Natalie Portman’s lips (either), and more expensive then my fucking parent’s generation self-respect (i.e. more then I’d be willing to pay for pants, but not actually all that much for something you need for life).
January 10, 2008 at 12:11 pm |
Gosh, I think you’ve finally crossed into the darkside of the “bitter blogger”, though that line about the parachute pants is pretty hilarious.
I agree with everything you say, but I think you might be able to make the same criticisms about every “generation”, that they were screwed up by their circumstances growing up and therefore screw up their kids, that they are plagued with selfish sell-outs, that they have shitty idols etc. I mean, I’m pretty sure they’ll say that about US (er, assuming we belong to the same generation;) ) in a few years.
Will probably hit the nail on the head though. It’s possible that the greatest accomplishment of the boomer generation will be bankrupting both social security AND medicare.
January 11, 2008 at 11:57 am |
I agree with everything here too, and sometimes it’s okay to let it all out, brother. I am glad that this post reminded me of a great McSweeney’s list, though. I’m not sure why, cuz it’s not really a 1:1 thing, but it’s a great list nonetheless.
http://mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/25NickSustana.html
January 22, 2008 at 2:58 pm |
Welcome to the club. None of like them. If you are 28-40 then you are well aware of the mess they have made of the world.
Your list is only a start.
Don’t forget that they are leaving us in debt up to our eyeballs. They have shipped all the jobs overseas and they never once stopped thinking about themselves.
August 18, 2008 at 7:40 am |
Couldn’t agree more, their arrogance about what they accomplished as a generation is astounding. They are blind to the fact they are responsible for the deterioration of the American way of life, and choose to think they are this endearing generation that stood up for civil liberties…HA!
What age group were those that passed the “Patriot Act”?
“Use up, cash in and sell out.” Timothy O’Leary would be proud.