Yeah, the Silent Generation had some great musicians. Pity about the Boomers.
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Those millenials, like my wife and I, are in the top 1-5% of our cohort. Most are significantly more hard up than a pair of working lawyers whose parents could help them out with the down payment on their 450k house.
Then again it is CNBC, a channel that near as I can tell has never cared about covering anyone lower than the economically active professional class.
James Brown, the most important person in American music history, was basically a republican.
Sidenote*. My grandmother knew James Brown. I didn’t get a chance to get more stories from her before she left this dimension but she visited him in the hospital once when he was sick.
Also said that he would sing songs and dance for quarters at the local drive thru.
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Many != All
BoredSocial was coming perilously close to a “What have the Romans ever done for us?” moment.
The blessing that the younger generations received is in knowledge.
We could be optimists and believe that when their wealth is left to the Gen X’ers they will put it to a better use.
I think its important to remember that Boomers are awful outside of politics too.
I am not alone in having been raised by Boomers who were objectively terrible parents but who not only take no responsibility for it, but would be genuinely outraged at any suggestion they were imperfect. When confronted with very direct examples of their own selfish, destructive behavior, Boomers are uniquely allergic to introspection and accountability. That awful thing Trump does, where he just attacks anyone who doesn’t worship him, whether its a grieving parent or disabled person? That’s right in the Boomer wheel house.
How many Boomers are going to try to control their children for the next 20 years with the promise of inheritance? So many millennials have done everything “right,” yet are now 35-40 years old with no wealth. So of course they’ll end up sucking up to their monstrous parents who have hoarded a bunch of wealth while playing the game on easy mode.
Almost nothing makes me as mad as this topic, so much so I’m probably not even making sense here. I could type for hours about how much I hate them.
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I think its a lot more realistic to anticipate they will respond to the incentives in front of them and react accordingly (which is to say, in their self interest).
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One of the reasons why we have to demonize the Boomers and their values now is so that we can make it socially acceptable to bully the Boomers heirs into coughing up nearly all the money. I don’t care how much money you have when all of society hates you it’s a miserable existence. We can make that happen.
You guys are holding out hope for political transformation, but that’s never going to happen while it’s still socially acceptable to be more than a hundred millionaire at the absolute most.
It’s about making people feel personal ownership of improving the world, and making them feel like greed and selfishness will be punished severely at least socially. The short term thinking thing I think is dying a slow death from its own stupidity thankfully independent of things like social movements. People are welcome to keep thinking short term if they want, people like me will eat their lunch until they go extinct. We’ve got that handled long term.
Boomerism is a cultural thing and we need to make war upon it. If people want to prove their a good Boomer they can protest about how they aren’t like most Boomers (preferably while demonstrating that’s the case with actions) while apologizing for what their generation did.
It’s not like Boomers are the only large group that needs to grapple with their actual legacy. That’s white people too, and the whites are basically on board for attempting to make things right… except the fucking Boomers.
Don’t worry they won’t do the right thing. That’s not who they are. And that is why they’re going to need to be a strong negative example that is just about the least fashionable thing in society.
Yes. Which, as you imply, sounds eerily similar to what Boomers did.
It’s…almost…as…if…the…whole…system…is…at…fault
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Stevie Wonder was alright.
I always thought this generation stuff was mostly sport, with the understanding that broad generalizations like these are idiotic and awful. Guess not.
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And if I wasn’t here to read a lot of your awesome thoughts on things and just made assumptions on the archetype of your life I could make some of the same broad assumptions and if I’m right more than 50% of the time profit?
They literally elected Donald Fucking Trump. Fuck off.
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Please do not break my heart and act like the root musics of hip hop are outside your wheelhouse of knowledge. Not buying it.
Oh ya, sure.
Sport for some, guilt transference for others is my guess. Whatever, it’s fucking moronic.
Didn’t you openly support voting for Biden? A Catholic?
In your own words “anyone who supports the Catholic Church is evil.”
That’s not even getting into how I could easily use your own implied logic for people attending Catholic Churches onto banks.
Made me look. He’s fine.
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There’s plenty of stuff that needs the same treatment as Boomerism of which the Catholic Church and Banks are excellent examples. But there’s absolutely no doubt that social change is going to have to lead every other kind of change.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with ‘OK Boomer’ or ‘Karen’ for example. Those are both part of the larger trend that I’m very much on board for. This is about bringing shame back.
I guess it won’t surprise anyone that I see the Boomers total lack of shame for anything they’ve ever done as the insult they add to the many injuries.
It would be amusing to compile a list of artists who Trolly thinks are shit based on their age, but a waste of time because he’s just trolling.