How the Baby Boomers Ruined Everything....

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http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/20...XmDZFL/story.html?event=event25?event=event25

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EVEN BEFORE the election, Americans were asking just how we got here — to this sullen moment of national reckoning. Since November, the autopsy has dragged on so long it seems there could be nothing left to dissect. But the search continues, because no truly satisfying answer has yet been offered. Deplorables, deportables, economic malaise, rural resentment, coastal hauteur whatever — these are just symptoms. The root illness remains undiagnosed, but here it is: the baby boomers, that vast generation of Americans born in the first two decades after World War II. The body politic rests on the slab because boomers put it there, because decades of boomerism produced the problems and disaffection of which 2016 was merely the latest expression.

It’s a shocking hypothesis, but then again, America has suffered a shocking decline. In 1971, Alan Shepard was playing golf on the moon. Today, America can’t put a man into orbit (or, allegedly, the Oval Office) without Russian assistance. Something changed, and that something was the boomers and the sociopathic agenda they emplaced.

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we've lost a sense of purpose of national unity in favor of petty politics.
I don't mean just Trump. Obama and Bill Clinton suffered the same.

at one time being an American was understood and desirous to be Exceptional - now it's often looked at with disdain.
we do not value our own country. we treat it like crap, and wonder why we have no sense of purpose.
 
I don't blame the boomers. I blame 100 years of steadily moving to the Left. Time to reverse direction.
 
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Bigdog said:
I don't blame the boomers. I blame 100 years of steadily moving to the Left. Time to reverse direction.
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One look at the last couple of generations ought to tell you something....and they are not the boomers.....we send our nice, well brought up kids to high school and
college and suddenly we can't recognize them for what they have turned into in a few short 6 or 8 or 10 years.....
They come home indoctrinated, turned into selfish snowflakes, socialists, and left wing radical anarchists....hell bent on change,.....change that is bringing down the country....

No respect for themselves, for their country, for the rights and privileges we've provided them with our own blood....
No, its not the boomers. That generation taught their kids at 16 or 18 its time to shove off and grow up, and be responsible for themselves, and not to think its their right to live with mommy and daddy until they are 26, 28 and 30 years old...still sucking the titty when they should be adults....they didn't learn that from the boomers....
 
" The root illness remains undiagnosed, but here it is: the baby boomers, that vast generation of Americans born in the first two decades after World War II. The body politic rests on the slab because boomers put it there " D #1

I'm a little bit with Micawber on it.
The premise of the topic theme is a fallacy in logic known to be false even to the ancients that named it: post hoc ergo propter hoc (after that, therefore because of that).
The rooster's crow does not cause the sun to rise.

The few decades after WWII were wild and energetic. There hadn't been anything like them before. Those conditions weren't caused by the boomers; they influenced, shaped the boomers.

President Trump was born in 1946.

"The body politic rests on the slab because boomers put it there " D #1

[Accepting the assertion as premise of fact:] Trump's putting it there right now.

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It's a distinguished group. Microsoft's Bill Gates was born in 1955, as was Steve Jobs. Those two alone helped transition U.S. to a more modern world. The world they entered was fundamentally different than the world today, because of them, and tens of millions of their closest friends / age-mates.
 
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Thanks.
Yes.
Born in 1954.

It's not merely that the world is changing.
Your great-grandfather may have lived life much the way his great-grandfather lived.

But you quite likely wouldn't recognize the world your great-grandson will live in.

It's not merely that the world is changing. It's that the rate of change is itself changing.
On my return to New York from North Carolina I encountered a toll booth that was unoccupied. No human attendant. It was completely automated. Just feed $cash in the slot, and $change in $coins drop into the cup.
20 years ago that might have seemed a pipe-dream.

And as human speech recognition reaches viability, there'll be another spurt in technological advancement. We are already being out-competed for jobs by machines:
- ATM's replacing human bank-tellers
- Robots replacing human warehousemen
- I already mentioned the toll booth.
- One military surveillance drone can replace a squad of reconnaissance troops. Lower risk, lower cost, higher speed.
 
we took it for granted we could distort the body politik with hyper-partisanship and the country would absorb all our selfishness.
we taught generations behind us to hate -to literally seethe and hate members of the other party.

We've taken 200 years of American politics-what used to be the envy of the world and drowned it and stomped the life out of it -so that the phrase "common good" is derided with our narrow minded regionalism

When Hong Kong was setting up it's political partys after autonomy -i was reading the South China Morning Post
and OP ed pieces were using the US political system as ex. to be avoided because of hopeless gridlock.
I was astounded just how far we've debased ourselves in the eyes of the world
 
sear said:
" The root illness remains undiagnosed, but here it is: the baby boomers, that vast generation of Americans born in the first two decades after World War II. The body politic rests on the slab because boomers put it there " D #1

I'm a little bit with Micawber on it.
The premise of the topic theme is a fallacy in logic known to be false even to the ancients that named it: post hoc ergo propter hoc (after that, therefore because of that).
The rooster's crow does not cause the sun to rise.

The few decades after WWII were wild and energetic. There hadn't been anything like them before. Those conditions weren't caused by the boomers; they influenced, shaped the boomers.

President Trump was born in 1946.

"The body politic rests on the slab because boomers put it there " D #1

[Accepting the assertion as premise of fact:] Trump's putting it there right now.

BTW
It's a distinguished group. Microsoft's Bill Gates was born in 1955, as was Steve Jobs. Those two alone helped transition U.S. to a more modern world. The world they entered was fundamentally different than the world today, because of them, and tens of millions of their closest friends / age-mates.
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Computer science was pretty much invented after the war leading on from the groundbreaking work of the Bletchley code breakers. All the pioneers of the Internet were boomers, so it is chastening to think that without them the Millennials wouldn't even have somewhere to bitch and moan.

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anatta said:
we took it for granted we could distort the body politik with hyper-partisanship and the country would absorb all our selfishness.
we taught generations behind us to hate -to literally seethe and hate members of the other party.

We've taken 200 years of American politics-what used to be the envy of the world and drowned it and stomped the life out of it -so that the phrase "common good" is derided with our narrow minded regionalism

When Hong Kong was setting up it's political partys after autonomy -i was reading the South China Morning Post
and OP ed pieces were using the US political system as ex. to be avoided because of hopeless gridlock.
I was astounded just how far we've debased ourselves in the eyes of the world
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That is one of the best descriptions of what is occurring that I have ever read. Nice job Annata.
 
Bigdog said:
Why do you think those generations are a sign of the second coming?
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1. the generation of the fig tree began when Israel was replanted as a nation [1948]; it coincides with the end of WW2 and the beginning of the baby boom and the new earth order which was very good until the fig tree began maturing [about 1964]and producing bad fruit. that has brought us to here. 2. the beginning of the baby boom and replanting of Israel coincides with the end of the biblical sixth day [6000 years] and the beginning of the seventh day [rest] soon; no man knows the day nor hour but all who watch and wait will not be found unaware of the times and seasons 3. all of the things which The Lord describes: famines, earthquakes in divers places, wars and rumours of wars are common, every day normal occurrences.4. the baby boom and replanting of Israel [ the fig tree generation ] began in about 1945/ 1948. a proper biblical generation is 50 years [IMO] / jubilee is every 50 years. however in a heathen world a generation is about 70+/- years [jubilee forgotten/ no rest and restoration]. the baby boomers are about to die and The Lord said that this generation would not pass away until the beginnings of sorrows [tribulation 3.5 years] and [great tribulation 3.5] were fulfilled. 5.violence does cover the face of the earth and the people and their religious systems are totally apostate. 6. antichrist islamism and worship/ consent to/ acceptance of the false prophet mohamed [damned forever]and of "allah" Lucifer according to the false prophet is expanding exponentially even among apostate falsely so called "christians" in the mainstream of culture; and is being legislated into law globally. I could go on and on, but these are my personal views on the parable of the fig tree. it is good to learn the parable of the fig tree. I have been here since 1967 [the year Jerusalem was won in battle back from the damned U.N.] it is the 50th year since then [biblical Jubilee]. i am an eyewitness and it would be dishonest to deny all the proof i see. if i am hated for these testimonies then i am good with The Lord. it is good. i think this is absolutely pertinent to this thread. i never intend to muck up anyone's thread with my alternative testimonies.
 
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