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doublethink:

There’s a new trend lately to have Boomer authors excoriate the younger generations, blaming them for everything from the bad economy to cancer. Even as old lawyers blame the young for their problems, we get new data on how many nations are facing a lost generation of youth who can’t find gainful employment.

The fun part about all of this is that the Boomers are the biggest group of pampered bitches ever to grace our fair planet. They were handed a hopeful world reconstructed after World War II by a generation that felt widespread suffering, loss, and sacrifice. The so-called “Greatest Generation” knew what it was like to be poor, and to suffer in the throes of war, and so they protected their children from those realities to a large extent and set up social safety nets (Social Security, etc) so that their children wouldn’t have to suffer as they did.

What did the Boomers do? They took a massive shit on everything. Riding infrastructure created by their predecessors (while doing nothing to improve or maintain it), Boomers have raped and pillaged the planet, promulgating a “me, me, me” attitude of narcissism and greed that has resulted in all of us now, basically, being fucked from seven different directions. Social safety net? Fuck that! Bleed it dry! Run it into the ground! War? Let’s have more of it! And their generation of money-addicted vampires continues to keep a death grip on the reigns of power, refusing to let us have our turn until we’ve driven twelve stakes into their cold, dead hearts.

Now faced with living in the coming apocalypse (partly because with their money they can afford to be kept alive beyond their years, and partly because they were SO greedy they couldn’t postpone the inevitable and leave the rest of us holding the bag en toto), the Boomers are fighting back! It’s not their fault, it’s their lazy, greedy, unskilled kids who are doing all of the damage! Aside from the insanity of claiming that 20-30 year olds have any say in anything, we too are a product of our world. We grew up in a fantasy land where we were lied to about how to succeed, promised jobs and opportunities built on fraud and fables, and loaded up with expectations that we were never given the tools or access to fulfill. So yes, perhaps this all IS our fault, our fault for buying into the prevarications of a generation of criminals and hucksters, of narcissists so full of themselves that they would rather the world go down with them than leave something worthwhile behind when they die.

Echoing Squashed, y’all Boomers can eat a bag of dicks.

Gen-X’ers figured this out a long time ago. Which is why they call us slackers. But hey, why trust someone else’s dream for your future? That, my friends, is the lesson of Gen-X.

Excellent points, though maybe a little more extreme. It’d be nice to see a little less raw anger and a little more thought out argument. Sharpened knives dig deeper than a flurry of scratches, after all. While Gen X might have figured it our already, Gen Y is the group that’s really getting fucked and they’re only starting to realize it. We got all the same promises as Gen X and even worse conditions to try to fufill them in.

We’ve come to fruition when there’s nothing left in the soil to pull from. It’s no wonder there’s so many fucking weeds.