Date: January 7th, 2025 3:22 PM
Author: MASE
People like to blame the boomers for things that happened long before boomers were running anything.
The oldest boomer on earth was 18 in 1964
The boomers have become a kind of totem for unsatisfied younger generations. A blank canvas that can be painted in any way one wants. Blaming everything in the world on the boomers is almost like a messianic thing. The answer to all the problems lies with this one generation. It's very ahistorical, it's a problem of having too narrow of a lens and thinking in a short timeframe and not being able to see bigger arcs, or unwilling to truly accept the deeper fact (and the meaning of the idea) that we are inextricably products of our time.
Often people's political issues with boomers are just sublimated personal issues they have with their own parents. Notoriously, the people that perpetually seethe 24/7 about boomers also often have bad relationships or problems with their parents.
Whenever I write about the boomers in any kind of neutral way, many people get very very angry. "You have to hate the boomers." That's the default that you are supposed to go with. This obsession shows the totemic aspect of the boomers. They are practically mystical at this point. There is this idea that you hear all the time that "all we need to do is get past the boomers and things can change." Yeah, right. If you subscribe to that, you are going to be very very disappointed.
Many seethers hate to hear this, but believe it or not, you will miss the boomers when they are gone.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5660341&forum_id=2Elisa#48528216)