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I have that book, too. To be honest, I find Boomer hate to be less and less impressive despite my good share of jokes at their expense. Yes, Boomers tend to be frustrating and obnoxious, but they are as unfairly maligned as Millennials are, and I dread the day when Boomers finally die and the system is in the hands of X-ers, Millennials and eventually Zoomers.Edit--I just finished a book called Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster by Helen Andrews. The book misses the mark to a lot of degree, and is dumbed down a bit to be a best seller. It really is not about the boomers but focuses on six influential figures of that generation. Despite that, the volume does demonstrate how utterly pernicious the Boomer generation has been. In reference to this thread, it does demonsrtate how progressive orthodoxy is a legacy of boomer influence. None of the succeeding generations have been able to actually revolt against their boomer parents and now grandparents they way a few radical dissidents such as myself are able to. Alas.
Jim Goad once posited that smearing entire generations is at best a gross oversimplification because outside circumstances change far faster than either human nature or psychology. Anyone of any generation can be as maliciously selfish or destructively consumptive as they can be suicidally altruistic. The howling majority of people effectively do not effect any sort of change whatsoever. They're, at best, consumers of goods or belief systems that suit their circumstances sooner than they are enforcers of a particular set of values beyond their immediate families. They can just as easily change ideas as they can socks for their personal convenience or benefit. What matters most is the power held by the elites. Those are the people who directly rule us, and their decisions cascade down. If the elites can be made to change or be dispensed of entirely, then society will change.