Sunday, August 9, 2009

Boomer Narcissism on Display

I can't wait for this generation finally fade to black:
During the past week, I’ve had conversations with old friends – leftist, centrist, and conservative – with whom I experienced the political battles of the 1960’s. All of us have a similar take on what’s happening now, compared to then. Then, it was a challenge against authority primarily by the privileged young who didn’t want to serve in the war, which dissipated rapidly once the draft ended, while their ideologues took refuge in academia to rise to insulated tenure of attachment to their old slogans and some of their ilk to gerrymandered seniority in Congress. ... Now, it is the broader swath of working and middle class Americans, a far larger and more potent population, who are fed up and angry with being exploited and insulted by those who feel it their right and duty to impose their schemes to rearrange and endanger everyone else’s lives and weaken the America that sustains us. We all feel the potential for violence is high. Enough everyday Americans will defend themselves against thuggish attacks upon their right to speak out.
Yeah, but in both cases it was the boundless self-obsession of your useless narcissistic generation on display---preening and parading and telling the rest of us how great you are.

Shut up about the sixties already! We don't friggen' care about your glory days. From your Hippie bullshit to Reaganism ... you're the ones that fucked this country up , so back the fuck up already.

Update: I'd just like to add that the rest of us "adults" would like to have a real conversation, while you asshats continue to be mired in your petty little ideological feud.

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