Originally Posted by
Dutch Uncle
An excellent and logical argument, one of which I agree. Thank you, sir, for presenting it.
FWIW, I'm as guilty of being a flaming asshole as those who blame all Boomers for our nations problems. As "Arks&sparka" has well displayed, Millennials are not stupid, they're as smart as any other generation, some wiser than others, some not so much.
The fact remains, we're all human and our species has progressed best when all of us progress.
The "kids" who rage on about Boomers make me smile. There were quite a few of us Boomers who did the same thing at our parents' generation. Mostly I think it's an excuse to blame someone else for your own personal fuck-ups.
In the 1950s and 60s we bitched too, but we did stuff. You mentioned progress. Here is some: We bitched about discrimination, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 began to address that. We bitched about elders dying because they didn't have insurance: Medicare/medicaid. We bitched about women's rights: Well, we tried with the ERA, and even though it never passed things are far better for women now. We bitched about the filthy environment: The EPA was created in 1970.
So let the "kids" bitch. If it's that bad, they'll do something about it, whatever "it" is.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
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