06-06-2018, 03:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-06-2018, 03:17 PM by Eric the Green.)
(06-05-2018, 06:24 PM)sbarrera Wrote:(06-05-2018, 12:25 PM)tg63 Wrote: It's a great perspective. I was struck by how many appear accurate, but the one that made me think a bit was that, in the crisis, boomers would be expected to trade material security for moral authority. I'm not sure if/how that is manifesting ... or maybe that's the next stage.
Not sure about that one, either. The only thing that comes close is that they are not making any effort to salvage social security/medicare which will hurt them materially. But it will hurt Gen-Xers worse.
Don't confuse blue boomers with red boomers. The ones who are not making an effort to salvage social security and medicare are Republicans and libertarians, not boomers. It's political, not generational.
I will never agree that red boomers are the real thing, despite whatever good points are made otherwise. Only blue boomers fulfill the role. Only they remain true to the ideals in which they came of age. The red boomers are phony and just uphold the status quo given to them. They may do it in a way typical of prophet generations, doctrinaire, impractical, ideological, righteous and fanatical etc., but that does not make them true prophets, because they don't proclaim the truth, like Jeremiah and Ezekiel and Isaiah did.