Big Lies

[Classic-Xer]

(02-21-2017, 03:18 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: What some millies and Xers forget is what was going on among boomers in the 1960s and 70s. That's why I bounced off of your post as a foil to mention what was actually going on. The boomers opened up a new view of human nature as already existing, assisted by mentors and fellow travellers among Silents, GIs and Lost. There was no "suppression;" it was an opening up.

But in more anxious times, and with less optimistic and more cynical young generation(s), this opening-up process is less visible. But yes, the human potential and peace movement is an alternative to the "struggle" that your neo-fascist authoritarian outlook requires. Xers and Millies do not support your struggle. Those who are progressive want to ditch laissez faire, and restore not the neo-fascism and ancient imperialism that you want, but to restore civic virtue as Obama described it and keep freedom and human rights for all people. This is among all generations, but particularly Millennials. Older red Boomers and Silents along with the red Xers and some Millies are empowering the reactionaries who want to hang on to laissez faire from the 1980s and to racial and religious uniformity from the 1950s. Just a reminder of what's really going on, cynic hero. This is the "struggle" that is happening today, and Boomers are certainly involved in it.

We forget because whatever it was that was going on in the boomer minds at the time didn't last very long. I liked the lower drinking age, I liked the abundance of drugs that existed during my teenage years and I liked being able to have sex with women without committing to marriage first or paying for it like my dad's generation. I do believe the image of women has been damaged. We don't view women as being as sacred as they once were viewed by my fathers generation. Equality is a bitch in a way. Equality eliminates excuses and forces people to let go of values associated with skin tones, gender and so forth. Equality doesn't allow exceptions/exclusions/preference for certain religious or racial groups in our public schools.