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Fun with Boomers

It's been no secret to anyone who's known me for any length of time that I really quite despise 60's values and the personalities that sell them. As a kid, I was spoon fed that junk in school and in all of the media that I consumed. Then I grew up and very slowly began to realize that I'd been sold a pig farm when I'd been promised a rose garden. So here's two links and a quote on the boomers:
In a great karmic irony, the worst Generation may in turn be raising another great one. Having taught the children of the Baby Boomers off an on for five years now, at the University of Texas at Georgetown, I find them to be the opposite of everything I despise about their parents -- they are engaged in their communities, spending endless hours volunteering to build housing for the poor or to feed the homeless. They are concerned about their classmates, having calmed down the PC mania and replaced it with a sensible sensitivity to the feelings of others. They care about the future and are concerned about their grandparents. They are more responsible in their private lives and more engaged in our public life. I have no idea whether it's because of the Boomers or in spite of them. Greatest Generation chronicler Tom Brokaw has the difference pegged: "The World War II generation did what was expected of them. But they never talked about it. It was part of the Code. There's no more telling metaphor than a guy in a football game who does what's expected of him -- makes an open-field tackle -- then gets up and dances around. When Jerry Kramer threw the block that won the Ice Bowl in '67, he just got up and walked off the field."
I found this on Boomer Death Watch.

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