03-19-2017, 06:21 AM
(03-18-2017, 04:22 AM)Galen Wrote: I am not really surprised by this. Unlike most of Generation X he gets to participate in the tail end of the fun part but then gets to spend the rest of his life in the shitty parts the Boomers left behind.
Still not sure why everyone wants to blame the Boomers. There was a high to unravelling shift. We went from ideals and working together from the common good to a time of selfishness. We went from the government aggressively attempting to solve problems to regarding the government as the problem. The National Malaise hit all generations. Even the GIs, who were as gung ho a bunch as we've ever had, willing to bear any burden, pay any price, shifted into neutral. Yes, the Blue Boomers, after pushing for transforming changes in their youth, got disgusted by the politics of Nixon, Ford and Carter, and abandoned street protests for disco. The Xers? They didn't lose the fire, the drive. They never had it.
The whole country shifted gears when the Unravelling started to unravel. It wasn't just one generation.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.