I'm kind of sick of hearing about them myself

Post #245,817 by hnick 2/22/06 6:14:34 PM Reply	I'm kind of sick of hearing about them myself I can't speak for a generation, and probably wouldn't if I could. That said, I'm kind of sick of hearing about 30 year old shit myself. There were some fun times. You had to be there. There were some major fuckups. Best if you weren't there. It's done. Mostly, I just try to blend in. Out of curiosity, what culture followed the boomers? More drugs? Even more massive consumerism, largely on credit cards? Remakes of 60's and 70's music? So what do the collective "you" want? Endless lines shuffling into and out of the Walmarts? I suspect that society is an entropic process and that it's going to get less social until it finally breaks. The younger ones are going to pay for the older ones until the breakdown. And I suspect that they will all bitch about it. Paying, not the breakdown. After the breakdown, the younger ones will bitch about the older ones that trashed civilization. Obviously, I'm guessing. As for your last point, I have been responsible about our retirement, and I don't think it's going to help. I expect to lose everything to the second major disease I get. The first will lose me my job and insurance, and the second one will wipe me out. Best to be dead by then. I'm not putting a lot of trust in the goodness of the next generations to keep this ponzi game going. YMMV.
Post #245,831 by ben_tilly 2/22/06 8:30:49 PM Reply	Please note that... the culture that followed the boomers that you're pointing to were also mostly boomer phenomena. Everything is until you hit what is clearly generation X. There are simply too few people born during the baby bust (I was born in 1969) to drive mass culture. Even though when you look at the official categorization, I'm generation X and Jake is a boomer, we have more chronologically in common with each other than either of us does with the boomers or generation X. As for your guessing, I'm guessing that you're basically right. (The younger ones are already bitching about the elders who are trashing civilization.) If Kevin Phillips is right, that breakdown is due in about 9 years... Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #245,957 by jake123 2/23/06 4:36:35 PM Reply	Nay, I'm X I was born in '67. I'm only two years older than you. Generally, the end of the boom (in Canada at least) was '65, or at least that's how most people call it up here. I think one big difference is that my parents were depression babies, not war babies; it was my grandparent's generation that went to fight world war ii, not my parents. I might add that they all did, despite all being in their thirties at the time. My maternal grandfather did the low countries, my paternal grandfather was killed in Italy, and my step grandfather spent a good chunk of the war in a german POW camp after being shot down. --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #245,961 by ben_tilly 2/23/06 5:01:54 PM Reply	By that definition I am a boomer. :-) My father fought in WW II. My grandfathers in WW I. My mother was a Depression baby. But I don't share much experience with either the boomers or generation X. Heck, I missed out on most of what my peers experienced as well. (No TV, little interest in mass media. It is amazing how that changes your life.) Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)

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