05-09-2022, 08:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-09-2022, 08:37 PM by JasonBlack.)
Overall, I like the Silent Gen a lot (probably better than any of the currently-more-influential generations underneath them in age), but....there were a large cohort of them who were fucking traitors. So...you spend your childhood looking up to those heroic GIs, then try to get married and grow up fast to impress them...only to go turncoat for those degenerate boomers who burned everything down in the 70s? They were also the first generation to normalize being disobedient to the husband, so that's a definite minus as well. Looking at it from their perspective, a lot of them probably didn't feel super well respected by their macho next elders, and obviously, a lot of the civil rights stuff was really important, but from the GI perspective, I would probably be looking down on them like "you disloyal little p*ssy! if you were old enough to fight in the war, you probably would have been a deserter"
fwiw, I respect a lot of boomers now once they've grown more experienced and principled, but boomers in the 70s?....eww. I would have had zero respect for them, the same way I have zero respect for people my age obsessed with rioting? With that said, I've been thinking a lot about how I would have responded to the Awakening era, and I think I would have largely mixed emotions. The conservative in me would have been like "eww! self-destructive degeneracy, irresponsible parenting, disrespecting historical accomplishments and reckless risk-taking!", but the libertarian in me would have been like "Finally some non-conformity, individualism and intellectual discourse. Oh, and they're anti-war too. That shit is dope!"
When the "new boomers" start coming onto the scene when the oldest reach 15-16, I will be interested to see who I end up siding with more. In all likelihood, it will be a mix of both.
fwiw, I respect a lot of boomers now once they've grown more experienced and principled, but boomers in the 70s?....eww. I would have had zero respect for them, the same way I have zero respect for people my age obsessed with rioting? With that said, I've been thinking a lot about how I would have responded to the Awakening era, and I think I would have largely mixed emotions. The conservative in me would have been like "eww! self-destructive degeneracy, irresponsible parenting, disrespecting historical accomplishments and reckless risk-taking!", but the libertarian in me would have been like "Finally some non-conformity, individualism and intellectual discourse. Oh, and they're anti-war too. That shit is dope!"
When the "new boomers" start coming onto the scene when the oldest reach 15-16, I will be interested to see who I end up siding with more. In all likelihood, it will be a mix of both.
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