Gavin McInnis on Baby Boomers

[Eric the Green]

(09-05-2016, 11:06 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(05-21-2016, 08:31 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Everything he's said about what boomers have done, was done by enough of them to make it a clear and distinct pattern.  This is how "generaliztions" work.  That you can find an exception to the generalization does not invalidate the generalization.

As for that revolution, I've seen what it appears Millenials have planned and if it is the Social Justice Utopia that is supposed to come I have absolutely no interest. I honestly don't think that our society can be fixed, we need to burn down everything that's been constructed since WW2 except those things built by the GIs we want to keep and start over from scratch.

I'm not the only Xer who has come to that conclusion.

I'm a boomer and I found the video hilarious and largely correct.  Certainly the only reason I know how to use cutlery is because I was taught by a Gen X girlfriend in my 30s; most boomers probably haven't had the opportunity.

The millenials aren't doing independent plans as yet; they are following whichever boomers they trust.  That "Social Justice Utopia" is planned by ex-hippies and pushed by millenials they have trained.

Justice is a good thing, I'd say

Quote:Be careful what you wish for about burning things down.  If things are burned down in the crisis, boomers are still going to be leading, and boomers play for keeps.  Don't expect the burning to be limited to conventional weapons, not in a crisis war.

That's right, and burning things down and starting over does not mean that people will agree any more about what's to be built. Certainly us blue boomers and the "millennials they have trained" will not agree with what the posters here who have called for the burning would have in mind. So, without some consensus achieved about what's to replace the carcass of post war America and The West, only ashes and still more burning would be all that happens.

All that's needed is to throw out the Republicans. That is "partisan," but no less a thoughtful analysis for that, of root causes today. Burn them down, and then elect real progressive Democrats, or a multi-party working progressive majority, and the people need to hold their feet to the fire. The only way forward is to actually move forward. You know, "progress." Progressives! Let's put the ship of state in drive, instead of reverse as it has been. Then and ONLY then will we not need to burn it down!