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[quote=Anonymous]Born in 1980 so whatever that makes me.

Parents born in 1948, so "older" boomers.

The differences between generations is wildly overstated, it's much more a difference between subcultural groups in each generation than the generation as a whole.

I laugh at all the young people ranting against boomers, because not only do I remember boomers ranting against their selfish, uptight, greedy, racist, sexist parents (the greatest generation ever), I also know my history so I know the boomers were very much part of the whole sexual revolution and saving the environment and civil rights. My mother campaigned for Eugene McCartney and went on civil rights protests in the 1960s! (and later voted for Reagan, what can you say). The millenials did not invent environmentalism. And there are just as many millenials who don't care about the environment or their carbon footprint as there are boomers who have spent the last 50 years dedicated to environmentalism. Today's "green" millennial has a much bigger carbon footprint than her boomer equivalent in the 1960s/70s because only the very rich at the time could afford to travel internationally regularly whereas today it's NBD to pop to Costa Rica to save the rainforest this year and then go to India for your spiritual awakening six months later and a girls weekend in SF then a wedding in Florida.

If there is a difference, it is that the older boomers did grow up in a sharply different time that they rebelled against. My mother, for example, went off to college in the mid 1960s when there were still visiting hours for women's dorms and no overnight guests. Think about that very carefully. The older boomers are much more aware of a world of values that no longer exists and which the millenials and whoever the current young generation are, have no clue about when they judge older people for being intolerant, yet demonstrating their own even harsher intolerance at the same time.

That aside, most people across the generations simply want to get on with life as best as they can, live simply and decently and be nice and fair. Angry people today would have been the angry people of yesterday and tomorrow's angry people too. [/quote]

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