(02-21-2020, 08:11 AM)Camz Wrote:(02-21-2020, 02:54 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: This Boomer recognizes what our worst has done and what the best of the X have done. The worst Boomers have acted like an aristocracy without any pretense of noblesse oblige. The mature X have tried to find interstices that Corporate America has ignored (not enough profit for them). The solution to an unjust capitalist order is not less -- but instead more -- entrepreneurial activity.I actually really admire what Boomers have done during the Consciousness Revolution! You guys brought us more gender equality, racial equality, and LGBTQ rights. You also brought us lots of 60s, 70s, and 80s classics. Those were the best times for pop culture IMO. But it's good that you recognize your generation's flaws. I hope there's more boomers like you
I'm going to say that we Boomers didn't do all that. The Silent did much to shape mass culture, and they often offered the brainiest aspects of pop culture. Think of the Fab Four (two Silent and two Boomers), the Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, Chuck Berry, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan. The difference between Boomers and X was that X quit pretending to have any high purpose in mass culture. In fact, as Boomers brought disco onto the scene I (among others) grew out of the mass culture.
The biggest fighters for civil rights were Silent, and the role of GI's (among blacks) is vastly underrated. The GI generation saw the challenge to racist assumptions... and, except in the South, buckled.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
