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July 14, 2006
Boomer Bush (ewwwww)
Simply ignore it, I said to myself, and it will just go away. No, not Bush, his 60th birthday. Confronted with the stark reality that this man is actually a member of the Baby Boomer Generation I shuddered, retched slightly and tried to avoid it. We even sabotaged two interviews (one with CNN, the other with CBS) because most of our responses weren't fit for prime time news.
I was jolted back to reality today by this diary on dailykos. I guess, based on this thesis, I can comfortably deny GWB inclusion in the Baby Boomer Generation (I feel better already). The writer's point: "we were in the mist (sic) of a REAL, full-blown culture war, not like the bizzaro-world one that goes on politically today, and like in any war, people wore uniforms to tell friend from foe. Our uniform was "freak." The opposition ... take a look at young Karl there."
Back then, we fought "The Man" and recognized "The Establishment" as the enemy. I guess we knew there were spies among us, but the battle front was drawn mostly along generational lines, so we ignored the rare exceptions. How foolish that was!
Thirty years later we have a generational Tory (and his right-wing Tory militia) running our country. Geeze, couldn't we have introduced George and Karl to Alice B. Toklas' brownie recipe back in 1969?
Posted on July 14, 2006 8:01 AM
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I'm sick of the media hype that defines the baby boom generation with protests, psychedelic rock, and Woodstock. I was an active participant in all those things back in 1969 and I can tell you that, then and now, we were in the minority. Those times have been romanticised by the media just because the music was so-o-o-o good!
The George Bushes of that time were the majority and still are. So our "generation" may have ended the Vietnam war but we didn't convert anybody. Look where we are today. With all our idealism we could never have imagined how far we've fallen. I don't think that we imagined that the neo-cons had much bigger and more focused imaginations that we had. They've created a world that's more Orwellian that even George imagined and now we have the biggest fight of our lives in America and all "the boomer" generation cares about is how good we look, how to stop getting old, and how to protect what we have.
What happened to us?
Posted by: chod Lang on July 16, 2006 11:10 PM
i agree with chod. especially because most of the people i know who were involved in the protests and who cared about living simply as hippies became corporate sell-outs. they've raised spoiled children based on the fact that they feel guilty about their failed idealism. gwb may be a bad president, but he's a lot more focused and realistic about life.
Posted by: Theresa on July 28, 2006 8:45 AM
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