*Beatnik slacker hippie or a freak,
Ain’t it all the same thing all of us seek
What our parents do, way back when?
Makes me hear the same thing again and again…
Generation “A” or Generation “Z”,
Who the hell are you to put a label on me?
This label of the week is getting kinda lame,
The more things change the more they stay the same.*
“Generation Why” - Reverend Horton Heat
That would be funnier if so many of the older generations didn’t actually seem to think like that. Including people my age. Their motto seems to be “loot the world, spit on the young, let them inherit an ecologically and economically collapsed theocratic fascist hellhole.” One reason I don’t want children is because I fully expect the next few generations to collectively spit on our graves because of what we’ve done to them, the hopelessly corrupted, burned-out future we seem determined on consigning them to.
None of us feel that way. We just say it because fools will believe anything they see on the internet.
I wasn’t talking about what they say, I was talking about what they do. silenus was joking I’m sure, but his joke is a pretty close match to the actual attitudes and behavior I see.
Of course, the political change they desire is to repeal most or all of the reforms of the 20th Century.
If generation x can do much better than the baby boomers they better start living off there parents and stop playing your video games that the baby boomers invented and get a job stop having the baby boomers pay for your fun oh wait did I say work I forgot generation x expect there mommy and daddy to support them till there 35 yrs old.
In this thread? I’m shocked and astounded.
I didn’t say they were trying to bring about political changes you liked, necessarily.
Have a nice day!
I think you’re confused about who “generation x” is. Most of us are in our mid to late '30s and haven’t lived off of our parents for a very long time. We’re married with our own kids now.
I’m very sorry to hear this Chefguy!
His post sounded like he thought “boom” meant noise, as in from a war.
This x 100.
Yup. It seemed to go with the rest of what you wrote.
Good thing the majority of Gen Xers are already over 35, then.
I’m glad someone mentioned this. I’m a few years older than you but my experience was much the same. As young as I was, I gravitated towards rock ‘n’ roll and enjoyed the music when I heard it on records or on the radio. I watched the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, a little boy going on six, lying on the floor looking up at the screen. I was a Doors fan from the first single. I was into just about all the music that we now associated with the mid and late 1960s, but I was too young to experience it on an adult level, such as by going to concerts or clubs. I do identify with the Baby Boom in terms of the music, and of other cultural aspects. I consider myself to be a Boomer because of that, and also because the calendar tells me so.
But, to the extent one can ever generalize about these things, the counter-cultural currents of the 1960s became mainstream by the mid 1970s. On the other hand, the major ethos of the 1960s counter-culture was that its members didn’t want to “sell out” for “the good life”, namely lots of money, a nice house, and so on (the hippies were mostly a middle-class white thing). By the mid 1970s, we had had the first oil shock, and it was possible to imagine a future in which we would not be able to keep regular cars rolling, never mind flying cars. If we break the boomer generation down by age into two mini-generations, then the younger half had a decidedly more pessimistic and gloomy world view.
It’s shit like this that makes me join in the fuck the Baby Boomers attitude. ‘You kids don’t work as hard as we did and just want everything handed to you’
No really what the younger generations would like is the same opportunity to work hard and succeed that was offered before the baby boomers came along and and horded every bit of wealth and opportunity for themselves.
Look at the costs of things now compared to then in terms of percentage of hourly pay and tell us we’re just lazy. We work harder and longer now for less. I’d love to be able to buy a new home for only 4 times my yearly salary today on average we pay twice that.
Not to mention we aren’t able to even go to our beaches or parks without being hit up for parking and fees at every public park we go to. Yeah back in your day ‘we played outside and went to the beach’ Yeah back in you got to do those things for free now we have to pay for it.
Come on keep telling us how easy us kids have it today and how hard it was for you.
Since most of the people in America at that time were “middle class”, what else would you expect? Most of them were white, too, you know.
Those of us who’ve been here a long time know that isn’t true in your case. Judging by your statements elsewhere on this board, and your public profile, you’ve done very well for yourself. With that in mind, can you really be this pissed off because the last few Presidents and Congressional leaders have been boomers? Is there any rationale for allowing the existence of some aging rock bands and their aging fans to enrage you that much?
All right GenXer’s, that’s it! You pushed me too far. I’m putting the curse on you.
But we were totally cool with that Negro guy, Jimmy Hendrix.
We let colored people come to our swim club as guests too.
Sad truth is that black folks, by and large, hated hippies more than just about anyone, at least early on. Knew a semi-black hipster, made a damn good living, buying weed from us and selling it to black guys at about 500% markup. You could tell them right out, you’re paying way too much for your smoke, and they wouldn’t believe you.