In grad school, I came up with “Blame the British” – a little retaliation for all the anti-American sentiment I was feeling in London. I turned the tables and pointed fingers at the country for all the world’s post-colonial blues. The Boomers are like the British in a couple of ways – been around a long time, sort of out-dated, a bit angsty about letting other people be in the lead. My parents are Boomers so I have a lot of respect for their rebellion against the Silent Generation. But as much as they’d like to think, they ain’t perfect.
(Let me be clear: I don’t agree with age-ism, so this isn’t about age.)
- Moms can do everything. But not everything all at once.
- Sprawl was a bad decision.
- Fortunes built on bubbles will burst. (This is really cross-generational; Boomers just seem to really enjoy it).
- Bye bye pensions & token 25-year work anniversary gifts.
- Bye bye working somewhere for 25 years.
- Computers. (Blamed for making your kids ignore you, not playing outside, getting fat, being isolated, etc. Yet, you sort of built them.)
*Disclaimer: Not all Boomers, not all the time. Part one.
(Comic courtesy of Auchtoon! and available here.)