Are Baby Boomers A ‘Generation Of Sociopaths’?

[Doobie Doo]

ong before millennials were dubbed the “Me Generation,” journalist Tom Wolfe used the label to describe the young baby boomers coming of age in the mid-1970s, a time of heightened focus on the self and personal development.

“The new alchemical dream is: changing one’s personality — remaking, remodeling, elevating, and polishing one’s very self ... and observing, studying, and doting on it,” Wolfe wrote in a 1976 New York magazine cover story.

To the extent that millennials really are self-absorbed and narcissistic, it may be because they learned from the masters: their parents. Baby boomers ― the unusually large generation born during a wave after World War II ― grew up in a time of historic prosperity. In many ways, the world they’ll leave for their children couldn’t be more different from the one they knew as children.

Boomers blew through resources, racked up debt, and brought an end to economic growth, using their enormous voting power to elect politicians who enacted policies that typically benefitted boomers’ interests, rather than future generations. Now, millennials face more debt, fewer resources and higher levels of unemployment than their parents, and are likely to see the fallout of runaway environmental destruction within their lifetimes.

Are Baby Boomers A 'Generation Of Sociopaths'? | The Huffington Post

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Interesting

 

[ahdsend]

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

"They came of age in a time of fairly effortless prosperity ... They really just assume that things are going to work out, no matter what. That’s unhelpful conditioning.”

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Uh yeah, just look at all those old heads who talk shyt about us, yet the '70s & '80s were the most violent times in modern history

"We didn't shoot nobody, we just fought"





1974 Chicago homicides: 970

 

[Antiquity]

They're a generation of egomaniacal spoiled, entitled brats who were handed everything on a silver platter and yet somehow managed to cause an unprecedented amount of damage to the economy , the environment, and society that has been left for the younger generations to clean up while Boomers are retired and relaxed on Florida beaches.

Look no further to how their parents provided them with trust funds and secure homes after the post war II boom and the Boomers threw their parents in nursing homes and blew their parents' hard earned money to do hard drugs and promote a culture of recklessness which their parents worked hard to make sure they wouldn't grow up in.

And look at how they selfishly blame Millennials for inheriting a horrendous job market when the Boomers sent all of the jobs overseas and sat on their pensions while their own children struggled to find survivable wages and won't even have Social Security by the time they retire.

 

[1 other person]

Most baby boomers I speak to on a daily basis act the most entitled.

 

[Eddy Gordo]

They're a generation of egomaniacal spoiled, entitled brats who were handed everything on a silver platter and yet somehow managed to cause an unprecedented amount of damage to the economy , the environment, and society that has been left for the younger generations to clean up while Boomers are retired and relaxed on Florida beaches.

Look no further to how their parents provided them with trust funds and secure homes after the post war II boom and the Boomers threw their parents in nursing homes and blew their parents' hard earned money to do hard drugs and promote a culture of recklessness which their parents worked hard to make sure they wouldn't grow up in.

And look at how they selfishly blame Millennials for inheriting a horrendous job market when the Boomers sent all of the jobs overseas and sat on their pensions while their own children struggled to find survivable wages and won't even have Social Security by the time they retire.

Marry me

 

[Mr. Negative]

They're a generation of egomaniacal spoiled, entitled brats who were handed everything on a silver platter and yet somehow managed to cause an unprecedented amount of damage to the economy , the environment, and society that has been left for the younger generations to clean up while Boomers are retired and relaxed on Florida beaches.

Look no further to how their parents provided them with trust funds and secure homes after the post war II boom and the Boomers threw their parents in nursing homes and blew their parents' hard earned money to do hard drugs and promote a culture of recklessness which their parents worked hard to make sure they wouldn't grow up in.

And look at how they selfishly blame Millennials for inheriting a horrendous job market when the Boomers sent all of the jobs overseas and sat on their pensions while their own children struggled to find survivable wages and won't even have Social Security by the time they retire.

vulgar.

 

[lowkey0z]

you can smell the 'make america great again' through the screen

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

Well duh......the biggest issues today are not because of muthafukkas born in 1985....it's the older generations that fukked up the country and expect younger people to pay for it

the sad part is millennials are probably gonna do the same shyt

 

[kevm3]

What's sad is $50,000 to $200,000 worth of school loans you can't default on for a $50,000 to maybe $100,000 a year job, no real pensions, no social security and all the while they are trying to suppress our wages by making us compete with 3rd world countries or bringing in foreigners with h1-b visas.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Also greedy and lazy.

 

[TransJenner]

You guys still falling for this shyt
The global elite is laughing at everyone

 

[Treblemaka]

They are probably the most hypocritical selfish generation.