How in the fuck did Boomers become more selfish than retarded inbred nobility?
The Boomers by definition were born directly after WWII. It was a time when the economy was booming as well, and people were free of the shackles of war and sick to death from the austerity of the great depression and wartime rationing. The Greatest Generation was ready to party down and celebrate their great victory, so they spoiled their kids to death, giving them all the things THEY didn't have growing up (to be fair, giving your kids a better childhood than YOU had is a huge part of the American Dream).
These same spoiled children shit all over the values their parents had, preferring drugs and free love, because getting drunk and playing canasta with the neighbors just wasn't enough fun for them. They doubled down on partying and stopped pretending they weren't sport-fucking everything that breathed (like their parents did) and even framed it as a virtue rather than degeneracy. The invention of birth control pills helped this hot mess along a lot.
Also, pollution was definitely becoming a real problem, so the Boomers started the whole ecology ball rolling. That eventually turned into the monolithic Indiana Jones boulder we call environmentalism today.
They were also pretty pissed off about Viet Nam, since they were the ones expected to go die in it, just like a bunch of their dads did in WWII. But Vietnamese Communism just wasn't as compelling a moral crusade as big bad ol Hitler had been, so nobody was willingly going to die to save a bunch of rat-eating Vietnamese from a different bunch of rat-eating Vietnamese.
Around the same time everyone decided it was wrong to treat niggers like niggers, mostly because they didn't know any niggers except for the guy they bought pot from, and he seemed OK, so they protested about that too.
Also a bunch of the veterans from Viet Nam served with niggers and decided they weren't too bad, not understanding that those particular nig-nogs were acting civilized because Daddy Military was standing right there to whoop dey ass 24/7 and wouldn't take dindu nuffin for an answer, and also these niggers had plenty of Vietnamese to kill, so they took a break from killing Whitey and their fellow niggers for a lil while. Then they all came back from Viet Nam, black, white, trained and accustomed to killing, just to have all the hot women and the dudes with enough connections to get out of serving spitting in their faces as soon as they got home. And Betty had not saved her virginity while he was at war, she rode the cock carousel and dumped him before he got back. If he married Betty before he left for Viet Nam, Betty still rode the cock carousel and was shifty-eyed, distant, and estranged when he got back. The country went from idyllic to chaotic.
In the 70s they did a bunch of blow, wore bad fashions, danced to bad music, and accidentally had children that needed to be paid for, so by the end of the 70s the male hippies sold out, cut their hair, got jobs, and only smoked pot and fucked random chicks on the weekends. But there was still a problem.
In the 70s, inflation hit, so our newly minted Yuppie found that he couldn't buy a house, a car, shoes and bikes for the kids, and modern appliances for the wife with just one salary. Betty was bitching about liberation and wanting to get out of the house anyway, so he told that bitch to go get a job and she did. With both of their incomes, their lifestyle was almost as good as their Mom and Dad's.
It was a combination of suck and rule for their kids (Generation X),; the suck side of it was they didn't have their mother at home dishing out milk and cookies after school and folding their socks. The part that ruled was that Gen X had more freedom to roam around and more leisure time than any generation of kids ever had, before or since. They could roam the neighborhood unattended for miles and disappear for hours before anybody even missed them. As a result, a few of them got murdered, which is bad. Most of them just got addicted to cigarettes, pot, and alcohol even earlier than their parents did and started impregnating each other even younger. And if you think you hate Boomers, Generation X hated them even more than you do. Imagine having an entire day of freedom, listening to devil music, smoking weed, and getting your fingers wet, when your Mom and Dad comes home and starts pretending that they're 1950s caring parents and trying to "lay down the law" even though they only saw you 15 minutes a week and only cooked and ate meals with you on the weekend. You practically raised yourself, and here's this neglectful stranger suddenly trying to wield the authority they gave up the minute you turned 10 and got a key to the house to wear on a shoelace around your neck. Needless to say, relations were strained. So the Boomers hated their kids, and their kids hated the Boomers too. And that's why they are the way that they are, HTH.
