re: We haven't had a good battle of the generations in a while

The only good thing about Gen X was they didn't really get into these asinine generation debates. But now they are old and found Facebook and just can't stop.

I recall my grandfather somewhat quietly whispering a bit of criticism directed towards the 'Greatest Generation.' He was older than them, and didn't really like to say anything negative about them, because he had friends amongst that generation, and truly appreciated what they'd been through (many indeed perishing in the war). I think he also understood the hard times they had as youngsters, with a decade of Depression-caused deprivation (which he would have also shared), even before the sacrifices of the war. But his little criticism had to do with his observation of the 'Greatest Generation' of the post-war years not really living up to their family and community obligations (from his perspective). That after enduring the hard times of the 30s/40s, they naturally just wanted peace-and-quiet, and just laid back and ceded all authority to the government, to the professional class, to 'experts,' while they just lounged around the tv-set. And that their kids (the resulting baby-boomers) didn't really get good upbringing like in older pre-war days. Which had dire ramifications, culturally, socially, and politically.

As much as I love and wallow in a lot of old cultural artifacts of that baby-boom era, I nonetheless do perceive of the baby-boom generation as being a completely different, vastly more self-absorbed entity, unlike anything that preceded it. A lot of blame has to do with technology (television), the lack of hard times, and the consumer advertising trends that cultivated a separate and starkly divided 'teen culture.' Led to a kind of perceived specialness and self-righteousness that dismissed of anything that came before... and even after. To a degree than can come across pretty darned obnoxious. And this same bad seed seems to be continually passed down to each new generation, dogging them just as much, so it's not like there's been much improvement anywhere in that department.

It all just seems to be a bad downhill spiral, since the end of WW2. I can certainly see and understand why both baby-boomers rag on millennials, and millennials rag on baby-boomers. They both have their valid points!

When Millenials "go to moms for Christmas" they just walk up the stairs

Yet none of those compare to The Great Depression and World War 2.

I hope the Boomers spend all their money and don't leave any of it to their kids.

Millennials keep voting idiots into office and thinking there are no consequences.

Boomers(myself) have kept old timers into office well past their shelf life. Although I like change, too many of my generation is against it. Term limits is the only answer.

My biggest gripe with Millennials is that they made good BBQ too damn expensive by calling it gourmet.

Boomers have common sense while Millennials have technology sense.

Bottom line, every new generation thinks it is better than the past ones, unfortunately that has never been the case.