The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Geesh, what a humongous apologia -- and it's the exact same old blah-blah-now-he's-telling-us-the-same-old-shit-about-the-sixties-AGAIN that Barry *already did* say, only he did it so many words less!
And no, to me it does NOT look as if Barry was being sarcastic; not in the sense of self-irony that you are apparently trying to imply. More like he was being *snide* -- out of the *same* smugness that you display here! You just affect to do so in a more avuncular / professorial manner... Newflash: It's still just as annoying. But I suspect that deep down somewhere, you already knew that... Because why else would you need to protest so much?
Listen, Unca Randy: Yes, you and Barry are both probably right: Your generation *did* really, in all likelihood, have a heckofalot more fun than ours is ever going to get to have. (Not, mainly, because you "used up all the fun", but rather more probably because you used up all the MONEY.) Thing is, though: How fucking stupid do you have to be, to be (or even act) so *surprised* that this causes some resentment?!?
Normally, we're pretty much resigned to our lot, though... Far from demonstrtating any "wholesale disparagement of the boomer experience", what Jake and Ben are saying here is that we just don't want to HEAR about it all the frigging time -- whether it be in Barry's tone of unapologetic glee, or in your mock-sympathetic ones, what "seems unwarranted" here, are the _constant reminders_ of how much fucking more fun the world was in your day.
Can't we just NOT get our faces rubbed in that the whole damn time, please?
Thank you.
