Banning Boomers
Excess booming will not be tolerated
Yesterday, a Boomer decided that this was a safe space for Boomers to do what most Boomers love second-best, which is to denigrate all of the younger generations and blame them for the problems to which Boomers either contributed to or caused. That Boomer has been banned, as will any other Boomers who incorrectly assume their opinions about their generation are of interest to anyone here.
I’m well aware that Not All Boomers Are Like That, I know there are some good Boomers, and I have no problem with them. I’m not going to ban people from commenting here on the basis of the mere happenstance of their birth.
That being said, I have more than sufficient evidence of common Boomer behavior to refuse to tolerate any excess Booming here, defined as follows:
Defending the Boomer generation. If you’re an exception to the rule, then you have no need to defend genuine culprits who happen to be your age.
Attempting to change the subject by attacking the younger generations.
Talking about how much cooler your generation was/is.
Seeking to deny what the Boomer generation observably did.
Trying to shift the blame for what the Boomer generation did to others.
People have the right to express how they feel, and no one here is the Reality Police charged with correcting anyone who expresses an erroneous position. If you don’t like what they’re saying, or if their criticism of how they were treated makes you feel bad, suffer in silence.
And if, for some reason, you just can’t understand why GenX hates the Boomers with a pure and eternal fire, this little anecdote perfectly encapsulates five decades of experience with them.
Late 80s high school friend attended a state retreat for gifted kids. They chose a theme song at the end, Alphaville’s “Forever Young”. The Boomers in charge overrode with “Imagine”.
The amazing thing about Boomers is not that hearing about this didn’t surprise a single GenXer, but rather, that the average Boomer wouldn’t see anything wrong with it. They literally can’t even imagine anyone having a different perspective than they do.
Yeah, Hypergamouse gets a little darker than you might expect from time to time. Because the Reaper is the pillow and the pillow is the Reaper’s scythe.
I'm firmly Gen-X (1973) my wife is on the border between X and Millennial. While I love and respect individual Boomers, it simply cannot be denied that the entire country was and is being ruined to prop up their lifestyles. Never has a group been given so much, ruined so much and been so deluded about both things.
b. 1961, outback Australia. Message endorsed. Since high school in the mid-70s I have slowly diverged from my cohort on every single issue, from "the best music" to "young people today", to "get your booster". The most common thought I've heard expressed by my miserable generation is, "I don't care about [insert any decivilisational trend], I'll be dead before I see it get too bad." My older boomer brother openly tells his children he's spending all his money before he's dead and is leaving them nothing. Tellingly, two of them have moved overseas and the one still living nearby rarely visits. Another boomer acquaintance from high school days tells me annually that music stopped in 1974. It's never ending.