Thursday, July 22, 2010
What is with the Baby Boomers?
Sorry to not have finished. Timothy Leary was your master. Tune in, turn-on-get high. Hope the high was good, man, cause now the joint is gone and you're about to get burned.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
What is with the Baby Boomers?
I've really had it with this generation. They are the single most self-absorbed, opinionated, coddled generation this world has ever known. Oh, I've heard their rallying cries (whines), so I will address them one by one:
"Hey, we were fought for civil rights, were at the March on Washington, etc. " Um, no they weren't. If we are to take the (official?) dates of their births, 1946-1964, they were between the ages of one and seventeen in 1963. Sorry guys, but we've all seen the old black and white news footage. The people marching that hot, summer day were well-dressed, men and women between the ages of 20 and 90. Oh, that was you in the stroller? Sorry, we missed you.
"Hey, we voted for JFK and changed the world!" Um, no, again. In l961, the oldest of you was what, fifteen? That would have made you about six years too young to go to the polls.
Before I continue, I will address what you really were. You were the dirty, filthy, group of drugged-out spoiled brats rolling around in the mud at Woodstock. Yep, that was you: Dirty, filthy, drunk, drugged-out of your mind, confused, and getting sick on each other.
What gets me most about this group, and yes, I will continue to tear them apart, is that they try to take credit for the generation before them, the so-called "Silent" generation. Joan Baez, I believe, was born around l943. Rachel Carlson, author of "Silent Spring", the first publication about the harm of pollution on the environment, was also a member of the "Silent" generation. The Boomers were the wonderful group of teens, and twenty-somethings who gleefully spat on our servicemen when they returned dejected from Vietnam. You cowards! Object to a war all you want! Don't you dare disrespect a soldier simply for doing his duty! Shame on you! So now, after we have had the pleasure of seeing you build your vinyl-clad, stone-brick mcmansions, eating up the Earth you profess to have saved, you have for the past thirty-five years gone on a consumption binge that can only be likened to a gluttenous, alcoholic, Lost Weekend (only it lasted thirty-five years). Oh, I understand youthful indiscretions. We've all had them, sometime in our twenties or maybe lasting until about age thirty. But when did the Boomers' indiscretions end? Oh, wait, that would be sometime in 2008, when we heard the first of your group whine (yet again) about how you couldn't continue to pay back your second and third mortgage on a piece of shit house that should never have been built in the first place! And yes, readers, I will continue this rant (and how!) Tim
"Hey, we were fought for civil rights, were at the March on Washington, etc. " Um, no they weren't. If we are to take the (official?) dates of their births, 1946-1964, they were between the ages of one and seventeen in 1963. Sorry guys, but we've all seen the old black and white news footage. The people marching that hot, summer day were well-dressed, men and women between the ages of 20 and 90. Oh, that was you in the stroller? Sorry, we missed you.
"Hey, we voted for JFK and changed the world!" Um, no, again. In l961, the oldest of you was what, fifteen? That would have made you about six years too young to go to the polls.
Before I continue, I will address what you really were. You were the dirty, filthy, group of drugged-out spoiled brats rolling around in the mud at Woodstock. Yep, that was you: Dirty, filthy, drunk, drugged-out of your mind, confused, and getting sick on each other.
What gets me most about this group, and yes, I will continue to tear them apart, is that they try to take credit for the generation before them, the so-called "Silent" generation. Joan Baez, I believe, was born around l943. Rachel Carlson, author of "Silent Spring", the first publication about the harm of pollution on the environment, was also a member of the "Silent" generation. The Boomers were the wonderful group of teens, and twenty-somethings who gleefully spat on our servicemen when they returned dejected from Vietnam. You cowards! Object to a war all you want! Don't you dare disrespect a soldier simply for doing his duty! Shame on you! So now, after we have had the pleasure of seeing you build your vinyl-clad, stone-brick mcmansions, eating up the Earth you profess to have saved, you have for the past thirty-five years gone on a consumption binge that can only be likened to a gluttenous, alcoholic, Lost Weekend (only it lasted thirty-five years). Oh, I understand youthful indiscretions. We've all had them, sometime in our twenties or maybe lasting until about age thirty. But when did the Boomers' indiscretions end? Oh, wait, that would be sometime in 2008, when we heard the first of your group whine (yet again) about how you couldn't continue to pay back your second and third mortgage on a piece of shit house that should never have been built in the first place! And yes, readers, I will continue this rant (and how!) Tim
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