The Greediest Generation the World Has Ever Seen
Some years ago, a lengthy article was published by the BBC on the vagaries of the baby boomer generation
. It was a damning critique of a generation hell bent on wrecking the planet, along with most of its social standards. So how has the baby boomer species ruined the World? They stand accused of owning homes that are too big; gas guzzling cars that are too big and require to be driven too far each day to work and home again; taking too many holidays too often to exotic locations; over spoiling the grandchildren; causing the divorce rate to rocket; not to mention sexually transmitted diseases rumored to be rooted in baby boomer free love from the sixties onward; and generally being a scourge on an otherwise relatively even keeled planet! Although one or two boomers have made a half hearted attempt to protest their innocence and declare that their society is simply more transparent and that the World has always struggled with poor moral standards, in our modern society we tend to forget that the pre-baby boomer years were comparatively free from the alcohol and drug related problems we now have to deal with on a daily basis. Apart from the occasional drunk who would be a local scandal, the thirties and forties were lived in a cocoon of respectability until we baby boomers came along and exploded our values or lack of them on society; causing moral havoc everywhere. To add insult to injury, the baby boomer generation continued its sexual freedom motif at all cost and instead of putting a curb on its sexual activities, spent squillions on research to sponsor the ultimate birth control the Pill!! Hooray! Contraception was the new age weapon against unwanted pregnancy and funded with almost the same enthusiasm as the space race. Sexually transmitted diseases were warded off with condoms, brought to modern sophistication to make them more comfortable and marketed to exhaustion: with relatively foolproof protection at its fingertips the baby boomer set thumbed its nose at the rest of the World and carried on doing what it did best But - we baby boomers have also blessed the World with some good stuff. Let us not forget space travel; plastic surgery; computer technology; alternative medicine; the mobile phone; the morning after pill; food hygiene; seat belts; sat nav; disposable diapers; the hundreds of cures that have been brought to people with horrible diseases and disabilities: baby boomer technology is not all bad Baby boomers are thought to be single-handedly responsible for the breakdown of family values in the new Century. With the escalation of the divorce rate, the onset of the new family unit became something the World had to cope with; stepsons and daughters having to build trusting relationships with step fathers and mothers; children abandoned while their natural fathers or mothers sought new relationships elsewhere; the old concept of making your bed and lying in it out the window; to be replaced by the take what you can get out of life because everyone else does attitude that is more typical of baby boomers than loyalty, fidelity and staying together for the sake of the children, so popular in pre-WW2 days. Consumerism is all to many of the baby boomer generation; unsurprising when you consider the product standards on offer. Baby boomers have on their doorstep an array of consumer goods the like of which the World has never seen: stand in any department store on Christmas Eve or Hanukkah in New York or London or Paris and savor the aroma of melting credit card plastic, mingling with the scent of new fabrics, perfume and expensive leather to know just how baby boomers have changed the face of religious festivals Worldwide! We just dont know when to stop, it seems We like labels; we like our youthful image and we do not accept our advancing years as previous generations have graciously accepted theirs bring on the Botox and the liposuction -and charge it!
Share: As women continue to be liberated and strive for sexual equality; as gays fly out of the closet at the rate of knots and as America invites its first African American president to make a cameo appearance on The Simpsons, it is obvious that the boomer generation accepts nothing as impossible. The greediest and most consumerist generation the World has ever seen is by nature deaf to criticism so there is little point in harping about boomers leaving the planet in poor condition! Knowing baby boomers, it will be passed on tagged as seen! Baby boomers continue to procure the best that money can buy, despite dire warnings of recession; global warming; the death of the planet; disease; pestilence and the collapse of the family unit. Love us or hate us, we are simply incorrigible!
The Greediest Generation the World Has Ever Seen
By: Boomeryearbook.com