re: Phrase "Ok Boomer" becoming popular with young people...

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At least they didn't frick the country like Boomers did

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When you're eating your dog because of socialism, you'll wish for things to return the way they were decades past.

Yeah really. I’m not a boomer but I’m wondering if people think they would have made a different decision if they were in charge.

This is hardly new but, I do feel like it's one of the broken things in our culture going back quite some time.

It's also something that I never really fully understood when I was young, and still don't.

I used to frame it this way to people that were younger than me when they'd play some variation of "old people blah blah blah".

I'd say to them basically the following:

1. Yes, sometimes old people are slow to adapt to new ways of thinking.

2. But, sometimes young people are not receptive enough to the value of experience.

3. I would ask them, "do you feel like you are smart today? If so, do you feel that given 20 years, you will be wiser than you are today?"...……...assuming they give the only rational answer.....

4. I tell them, "well, those old people aren't "smarter" Than you...……..they're just you, plus 20 or 30 years"...…...conversely

5. I tell my peer older folks, "those young people aren't dumber than you...…….they're just you minus 20-30 years"

I think if we could see it that way, we would recognize that, perhaps we should be slower to dismiss those with experience...……..and, perhaps we should more readily listen to new ideas from those without.

I’m kinda with the kids on this and I’m Gen X.

Boomers suck with their pensions, RVs and boats.

I’ve made more money than they did and worked harder than they did during their working years and I’m gonna be lucky to have Social Security and Medicare because of these sponges.

I’m sure as hell not gonna have a pension.

If an older person says something I don't agree with, I politely listen and proceed to ignore it. I guess it's a form of deference.

Do Roger Daltry and/or Pete Townsend ever feel stupid about singing the lyric “Hope I die before I get old” in their 70s?

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Do Roger Daltry and/or Pete Townsend ever feel stupid about singing the lyric “Hope I die before I get old” in their 70s?

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I've heard Pete try to spin it several ways, e.g. "Yer celebratin' yer youth!", etc

Well Baby Boomers are responsible for blowing up our national debt and sending the generations after into countless wars all over the world. So I think it would be safe to say that Boomers may be the most irresponsible generation in American history, which is striking because their parents basically saved this country.