[greekgod]

(01-20-2018 05:15 PM)Kona Wrote:  

(01-20-2018 03:19 PM)greekgod Wrote:  

Also, I believe senior/retirement housing is going to boom. Gotta put those liquidations somewhere.

Yes. However, I was talking with an insurance guy, and word on the street is that the long term care insurance biz is so upside down its a bubble that can't help but burst.

I also have dealt with my grandma's assisted living shit. She lives in what we call the " bad and boujee" nursing home that has an omelette guy at breakfast. It's got a few empty units, whereas it used to have a waiting list.

Problem is, peoples long term care coverage won't pay for it, and nobody can afford the difference.p laces like my grandma's start hurting because they can't limit services that other residents have already paid for.

Thus, what's gonna boom is care facilities that the cost of can be covered by an individual's social security check.

Aloha!

Which amounts to like...$1200-1300 per month. 100 unit place. Thats like 1.5 million a year total revenue.

I wonder if its feasible to pay for housing, food, healthcare, and staff and insurances with such a low run rate.

You'd have to get some huge tax relief and maybe having states kick in some subsidies to make that happen.

[Kona]

^^^ Filipinos.

Kick out the illegals or raise minimum wage and it isn't feasible.

Some old people get Medicaid to cover what the can't after their assets have been "spent down" or whatever the term is.

It's a big racket.

Aloha!

[Icarus]

Quoting Brett Stevens:

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We were ground zero for the effects of the decisions made by the Me Generation, or Baby Boomers [...] Mom and Dad were individualists. That is: their personal desires and preferences came first before all else, and their kids were collateral damage. The family — a pattern of reality, because it is a mathematically optimal adaptation to the need to reproduce and pass on social capital — came second, and therefore it was sacrificed for the individualism of Mom and Dad.

This tells the kids several things. First, “you are not important enough to us for us to sacrifice.” Second, it tells them that their origins — the very genetics that make them up — were bad, or at least mismatched. Kids, who spend more time in nature, are acutely aware of the importance of genetics. Finally, it says that Mom and Dad really care about nothing except themselves, so all that grand talk about people being equal, peace on earth, helping the poor and wanting a Black president was just external adornment designed to make the individualists look cool to their friends.

In addition, the divorce mess paralleled what was happening to society. People no longer cared if ideas were true, only that they were convenient. Institutions and learning of the past were abandoned for whatever self-help-book-styled drama was fascinating people at the moment. Politics even became a question of vanity, with each person picking a pet issue (drunk driving, abortion, Tibet, Mandela) that flattered their self-creation story.

Generation X were born knowing they were doomed, and around them saw the insanity proliferating because people sacrificed reality to the individual.

[WalterBlack]

[SlickyBoy]

(01-20-2018 10:54 AM)puckerman Wrote:  

Boomers were clearly the low point. This is a generation that bitched to get the drinking age lowered to 18 when they were 18. Then they bitched to get raised to 21 when their kids were 18.

They also formed the most loyal cult of Obama supporters.

Absolutely.

Their expression, 1968: "You can't trust anyone over 30!"

Their rule, 1998: "We ID all under 30."

Peter Thiel explained in his book Zero to One, that anyone born between 1945 and 55 came of age during one of the most optimistic periods in recent memory. That, and as they grew up and gained life skills, each year was met with an economic improvement. Boomers began to think these things were automatic and expected it to last forever.

Things didn't start to come undone a bit until the seventies, but most of them were already well underway with their careers. But by the next couple of decades, the effects of their selfishness started to take the bloom off the rose. Everything from ending the draft (making nonstop wars for Israeli interests much easier, and concomitant attacks by terrorists such as 9-11 inevitable), fucking up promises to South Vietnam after the war and creating post-Vietnam and Cambodian boat people, introducing cheap illegal or quasi-legal (H1B) labor to eviscerate the middle class in the name of higher stock portfolio prices, to ever-expanding government programs and entitlements, jacked up college tuition, boomer professors spouting Marxism and feminism into the heads of kids, etc. etc. They never grew the hell up but they were at the cusp of the wave - they didn't even notice; they were too busy having fun, man - it was so groovy!

Anyone else who came later got shafted. The boomers still expect us all to pay their Social Security via a combination of what's left of a bullshit "gig economy" career path and hordes of imported voters from incompatible cultures. California is a case study in boomer excess and hubris, but it's only emblematic of the bigger American picture.

Thanks to them, we actually spend serious effort trying to prevent most of our elected leaders - many of whom happen to be boomers themselves - from literally erasing the border and giving away citizenship to anyone unqualified enough to get it. FFS, can you even imagine trying to explain this is where we would be today to someone from the 1950s?! To them, a radical idea was a car made in Japan - they never imagined their own damned kids would be giving away the country they built just a few decades later.

Fuck the boomers and everything they did - and continue to do - in undoing the past two centuries of national development. I won't miss most of them.

[Foolsgo1d]

(01-20-2018 05:25 PM)The Beast1 Wrote:  

(01-20-2018 04:46 PM)Foolsgo1d Wrote:  

(01-20-2018 01:12 AM)The Beast1 Wrote:  

I'm genuinely terrorized at the thought of millenials getting a hold of the reins of power.

Be more worried about Gen Z if I were you.

Why? Aren't they the ones who were leading the "meme" wars?

I'll take them and their right wind death squads over the SJW totalitarianism that will become standard with the Millenialtards.

Two extremes do not fit well and doesn't bode well for politics, societies and economies. I've seen a lot of people here and in person comment on the daily bullshit of accepting stuff like the norm of armed police and truck barriers everywhere, accepting mental health patients who gender swap and so much other shit.

The other side of the coin is the polar opposite and this side cannot comprehend the other sides thought process because of feelings and the right of the individual. They cannot get around it.

You put two bullies in the same room they will duke it out.

[The Beast1]

(01-20-2018 09:20 PM)Foolsgo1d Wrote:  

(01-20-2018 05:25 PM)The Beast1 Wrote:  

(01-20-2018 04:46 PM)Foolsgo1d Wrote:  

(01-20-2018 01:12 AM)The Beast1 Wrote:  

I'm genuinely terrorized at the thought of millenials getting a hold of the reins of power.

Be more worried about Gen Z if I were you.

Why? Aren't they the ones who were leading the "meme" wars?

I'll take them and their right wind death squads over the SJW totalitarianism that will become standard with the Millenialtards.

Two extremes do not fit well and doesn't bode well for politics, societies and economies. I've seen a lot of people here and in person comment on the daily bullshit of accepting stuff like the norm of armed police and truck barriers everywhere, accepting mental health patients who gender swap and so much other shit.

The other side of the coin is the polar opposite and this side cannot comprehend the other sides thought process because of feelings and the right of the individual. They cannot get around it.

You put two bullies in the same room they will duke it out.

Unfortunately, the middle of the road never wins out especially in situations like the present day. There isn't anyone who can topple the United States. With so much deception, dishonesty, nepotism, and corruption from within something so powerful the only voices that win out are the extremes. Just like Rome, America will have its transition from republic to empire.

If I'm going to pick any side, I'll take the one that lets me raise my family and doesn't see me as the enemy. It sucks, but it's better to be prepared for the obvious outcome.

[RatInTheWoods]

[RatInTheWoods]

[RatInTheWoods]

[Higgs Bosun]

^^Says it all, really.

I suppose one could argue that it's better to just let it all burn to the ground and the sooner the better, but in that case Trump's election was a disaster. If you just can't wait for the SHTF scenario to occur, we should have all been cheering for a Clinton victory and an accelerated decline towards third world status to hopefully cause a hard reset which would hopefully result in our side coming out on top.

But that's a lot of ifs, which I think is ultimately why most of us want to stave off the apocalypse for as long as possible and make money, fuck bitches, and just enjoy life while stashing ammo in the interim. I can personally say that I hope this shit can hold together as long as possible, because I'm not very motivated to fight a race war on behalf of a race which is so goddamn cucked. I'd find much more pleasure from life spending it poolside in the company Asian girls and expensive toys than fighting for the survival of the cucks and the progressive filth.

With that in mind, I hope every last boomer clings to life with the tenacity of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and turns out to vote till the bitter end. If we can avoid Ragnarok long enough, I may well be able to spend the entirety of my prime in relative leisure, and then watch the world go up in flames when I'm close to punching my ticket anyway.

[Days of Broken Arrows]

(01-20-2018 07:14 PM)WalterBlack Wrote:  

This is amusing as hell. The problem is that it's inaccurate. The things that this guy was able to get -- like a job and a house -- came to him becaus of factors beyond his control. Like the Reagan economy of the 1980s for instance.

And the things that ruined it for the generations after this guy were also beyond his control. Like high interest rates on loans for college and houses. No one voted for that.

The people and the politicians are puppets for the corporations that control everything from interest rates to what you're allowed to say on Twitter.

Blaming Average Baby Boomer Joe for this is inaccurate scapegoating. What sane person votes in favor of massive student debt and low-paying jobs for their kids? Also, the average person isn't "driving up the deficit." That happens in DC.

And even if Average Baby Boomer Joe made every wrong choice in voting, it didn't matter. Corporations -- especially banks -- had bought off politicians on both sides and it was just a matter of how each side presented that. It's not hard to notice how most pols on the right AND left support "Dreamers." This isn't out of charity. They're being paid to support them by big companies who want cheap labor.

Also, think of it this way: Baby Boomers might have had no student loans in their day, but who do you think has to pick up the tab for their kids when their kids go to college? It's usually Boomers themselves, and that's why they're still in the workforce.

Back when I was doing music writing, I asked a famous musician why he stopped writing about politics. He told me something to the effect of "Because I got invited to all the politicians' parties and found they were just fronts for corporations."

We like to think we have say in our lives, but as soon as churches stopped controlling people, corporations stepped in. CEOs are our new priests, creating laws that allow them to pick our pockets and telling us what we can and can't say. The Average Boomer didn't sign up for this.

[Pete]

(01-21-2018 02:06 AM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:  

(01-20-2018 07:14 PM)WalterBlack Wrote:  

This is amusing as hell. The problem is that it's inaccurate. The things that this guy was able to get -- like a job and a house -- came to him becaus of factors beyond his control. Like the Reagan economy of the 1980s for instance.

And the things that ruined it for the generations after this guy were also beyond his control. Like high interest rates on loans for college and houses. No one voted for that.

The people and the politicians are puppets for the corporations that control everything from interest rates to what you're allowed to say on Twitter.

Blaming Average Baby Boomer Joe for this is inaccurate scapegoating. What sane person votes in favor of massive student debt and low-paying jobs for their kids? Also, the average person isn't "driving up the deficit." That happens in DC.

And even if Average Baby Boomer Joe made every wrong choice in voting, it didn't matter. Corporations -- especially banks -- had bought off politicians on both sides and it was just a matter of how each side presented that. It's not hard to notice how most pols on the right AND left support "Dreamers." This isn't out of charity. They're being paid to support them by big companies who want cheap labor.

Also, think of it this way: Baby Boomers might have had no student loans in their day, but who do you think has to pick up the tab for their kids when their kids go to college? It's usually Boomers themselves, and that's why they're still in the workforce.

Back when I was doing music writing, I asked a famous musician why he stopped writing about politics. He told me something to the effect of "Because I got invited to all the politicians' parties and found they were just fronts for corporations."

We like to think we have say in our lives, but as soon as churches stopped controlling people, corporations stepped in. CEOs are our new priests, creating laws that allow them to pick our pockets and telling us what we can and can't say. The Average Boomer didn't sign up for this.

Boomers voted for the politicians that did that and got bought off.
Who bought off those politicians to make more money for their business? Boomers too.
Those CEOs you talk about? Boomers too.

In my home country, Boomers destroyed the economy. Voting in politicians that slowly gave [sold] away all of the assets to a select few (boomers, I know some) and to the masses in the form of free healthcare and entitlement programs. They always mad things don't change, but they keep voting for the same people over and over again and never give a chance to a new face. If they wouldn't be able to vote or participate I think most affairs (stocks, economy, housing, healthcare, politics) would see a much needed and much welcome correction which [overall] would be in a good direction.

I don't know anyone my age (people who you can have a conversation with, not brain dead people who play video games all day or people who have never worked) who would've voted for hillary. The ones that do, I personally can attest have a pretty low understanding of how the world really works due to being sheltered by their parents wealth (boomers).

Also, in my country, traditional politicians won by a thin margin (thanks to boomers). Because all the young people voted for the new [independent-no party] faces (taking a huge 40-50% of the vote). Traditional politicians only won because there were 2 new young candidates, which divided that 40% and allowed the status quo to garner *just enough* votes to beat everyone else. Which means that when boomers aren't there to vote for them, traditional politicians won't be able to win and things *might* start changing. I think anything diffferent to the status quo of today is a change for the better. Could it really get worse by trying something new? I don't see the economy doing worse than in 2000-2016.

[Raylan Givens]

Quote:

This brings us full circle because Hill Valley, California, November 5, 1955, is the very future Noah Cross has in mind, one the post-war boom made real coast-to-coast. It was a suburban supernova of concupiscence, a hunger stoked by corporate America for cheap gasoline, for freeways to take you wherever you pleased, for the cornucopia pushed on TV adverts, for walking into the sunset with Rock Hudson, for Marilyn Monroe standing over an air vent, for the best of everything...for whatever you wanted. If that isn’t the mentality of Cross, then I don’t know what is. However, desire is not something you can turn on and off like a tap, as Raymond Chandler and the Church Fathers would both have made plain. You can’t shake a bottle of champagne and expect calm when the cork is yanked out. Whatever the sins of the Boomers, they weren’t the ones who made Playboy a national institution after its first issue in 1953.

Considered in that light, it’s uncanny how much Movement Conservatism's fabled 1950s looked like a gargantuan version of Survival Town, the Potemkin village thrown up in Nevada to gauge the blast effects of atom bombs. The homes were all very neat and tidy but were utterly fake. The society that put them there had summoned up infinitely more powerful forces that would destroy them. Similarly, the decade of Billy Graham and Fulton J. Sheen also made public figures out of the apostles of Venus (Hugh Hefner, Alfred Kinsey) and Mammon (Ayn Rand). The decade of the TV nuclear family saw an alternative family structure begin to spread across the land, the Hells Angels. The ultimate Hollywood happy ending, the wedding of Grace Kelly to Prince Rainier, came in the same year as Howl, Allen Ginsberg’s obscenity-riddled descent into perdition. Not to belabor the point, but one can’t blame the Boomers for any of this. When Ginsberg “saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”, the oldest Boomer would only have been eleven years of age, if that.

St Paul said there had to come a time to put aside childish dreaming and confront the truth, however dimly we perceive it. The unmitigated failure of Anglo-Saxon conservatism has come through intellectual childishness of the first order, the delusion that the Whig victories of 1688 and 1776 were conservative, or created an order that would allow anything to be conserved anywhere it touched. It hasn’t even kept men out of women’s toilets. Not the least symptom of this infantilism is an enervating attachment to nostalgia, a fealty to kitsch and fantasy, not to tradition and reality. Given the parlous condition of the land, it should be a savage indictment of Reagan and his acolytes that their underlying assumptions about American life should still owe more to Norman Rockwell and Frank Capra than to the sharper if darker visions of incipient “American carnage” discerned by Hopper and Chandler. The last half century has amply shown whose imaginings about the future were right and whose were not. In contrast, the era of Trump may not be a cheerful one, but it has one great virtue; the slumber is over.

http://thermidormag.com/california-dream...-and-dark/

I know the Boomers messed a lot of things up but honestly America was on a course for destruction before the Boomer ever Boomed. The West we live in today was fated after the Allied victory in WWII, it was inevitable. The Boomers just happened to be the generation that inherited America at her Zenith but Boomers are a product of their time. Why would they be reactionary or ultra-right wing when everything appeared to be working the way it should? Boomers came of age in a time of unparalleled material success and wealth, thus they are shallow and pine for a return to "better days." Prosperity breeds weak and shallow men.

[nomadbrah]

Millenials are mostly a shit generation too.

They're the adults who think their ironic, non-political 90s will somehow magically reappear.

Gen X and Gen Z are both better generations.

[nomadbrah]

(01-21-2018 01:59 AM)Higgs Bosun Wrote:  



^^Says it all, really.

Adjust for non-whites.

[SlickyBoy]

(01-21-2018 12:58 AM)RatInTheWoods Wrote:  

He should probably hate boomers for:

1) Encouraging lit majors - since you can do anything with a college degree, right?

2) Expanding the federal loans for college to happen, regardless of ability & means.

3) For being lit professors.

4) For being college administrators raising the tuition each year, way ahead of inflation.

5) Being his boomer parents who "wanted the best" for their kids and let them do fuck-all in college. No boundaries were set:

Conversation between boomer and son:
"Dad, I want to go to college."
"Terrific! Apply for federal loans and we'll mortgage the house to help you. We're so proud - let me call your uncle to tell him!"
"I'm going to be a lit major."

Actual response:
"You go and do whatever you want - we just want you to go to college. Go find yourself! Tee hee!"

Proper response:
Eh? Ok, I guess, if you want to be a teacher, but have you done any research on that? High school classes are shrinking and college professorships are incredibly hard to get. Sorry, can't support you here - just too unsound. Tell you what - go get your own loans. Come back when you switch your major to something substantive with a plan for a career more likely to succeed and maybe we can talk. Your mother and I can't borrow money to retire, after all.


As for this:

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This is amusing as hell. The problem is that it's inaccurate. The things that this guy was able to get -- like a job and a house -- came to him becaus of factors beyond his control. Like the Reagan economy of the 1980s for instance.

That's precisely the point, though - boomers had it all handed to them at the moment they were best able to take advantage of the momentum and expected it to last forever. Instead of recognizing their good fortune (admittedly, abetted by their "greatest generation" parents too) they squandered the lead. The sentiment in those pictures is largely accurate.

Quote:

Also, think of it this way: Baby Boomers might have had no student loans in their day, but who do you think has to pick up the tab for their kids when their kids go to college? It's usually Boomers themselves, and that's why they're still in the workforce.

Tough shit. Charles Murray correctly pointed out that half of all kids are below average. Seems obvious, but given that sentiment, half of the boomer kids probably should not have gone to college at all. But try telling that to any American parent with a gigantic ego need to "put their kids through college"- they aren't having any of it. Again, fuck the boomers and their immense sense of entitlement.

[Foolsgo1d]

(01-20-2018 09:38 PM)The Beast1 Wrote:  

Unfortunately, the middle of the road never wins out especially in situations like the present day. There isn't anyone who can topple the United States. With so much deception, dishonesty, nepotism, and corruption from within something so powerful the only voices that win out are the extremes. Just like Rome, America will have its transition from republic to empire.

If I'm going to pick any side, I'll take the one that lets me raise my family and doesn't see me as the enemy. It sucks, but it's better to be prepared for the obvious outcome.

The US was and never has been middle of the road but it did have a period it stuck to its own hemisphere and area except for trade and its navy. We are long past that.

An extreme would be a flip of the coin where we have two regimes in power. One pulls back from the ME whereas the other goes deeper and into other theatres for regime change.

[The Beast1]

^what's your point?

It will also be hilarious when the most selfish generation demands entitlements from the "me" generation. I doubt the boomers will get their social security and medicare. I'm already setting up my life to reduce my payments into that system.

I am also looking forward to the knowledge of World War 2 and the Beetles fading from the collective memory.

The sooner "muh holocaust" and over rated music moves on, the better.

[Icarus]

Western European Boomers are also shit, and they didn't even grow up in a superpower at its peak, but rather amongst the ruins of WWII.

[Icarus]

(01-21-2018 11:11 AM)SlickyBoy Wrote:  

Charles Murray correctly pointed out that half of all kids are below average.

Except that it's false. Consider the following list of 5 people and their respective IQs:

Alice: 100
Bob: 100
Chuck: 100
Dave: 100
Eve: 150

Average IQ is 110. Only Eve is above average. The other 80% are below the average.

[Higgs Bosun]

(01-21-2018 02:59 PM)Icarus Wrote:  

(01-21-2018 11:11 AM)SlickyBoy Wrote:  

Charles Murray correctly pointed out that half of all kids are below average.

Except that it's false. Consider the following list of 5 people and their respective IQs:

Alice: 100
Bob: 100
Chuck: 100
Dave: 100
Eve: 150

Average IQ is 110. Only Eve is above average. The other 80% are below the average.

Except the above list of 5 people is one you made up and doesn't represent an actual population. The law of large numbers states that any large population is normally distributed. A normally distributed population, in turn, is one where the mean is equal to the median and the mode. Thus, in the real world, half of the population is indeed below average. This is basic statistics and is as commonly accepted as the world being round.

[Icarus]

(01-21-2018 04:28 PM)Higgs Bosun Wrote:  

The law of large numbers states that any large population is normally distributed.

No, it doesn't.

(01-21-2018 04:28 PM)Higgs Bosun Wrote:  

A normally distributed population, in turn, is one where the mean is equal to the median and the mode.

If IQ were exactly normally distributed, then the probability of negative IQ would be nonzero.

(01-21-2018 04:28 PM)Higgs Bosun Wrote:  

Thus, in the real world, half of the population is indeed below average. This is basic statistics and is as commonly accepted as the world being round.

FYI, I taught statistics to engineering undergrads while in grad school.

[debeguiled]

There is a lot of projection and triggeredness on this thread.

A millennial is just a boomer without cheap oil.

Listen to Days of Broken Arrows, he is sending out some reality.

Most of the people doing the talking have no idea what things were like in the sixties and seventies.

First of all, not everyone was a hippie protesting war in the streets. Most people were a lot more innocent than people today, and also don't forget, no internet.

No access to all forms of information, and for the most part, people still trusted authority figures, and the authority figures weren't saying that the present was being maintained at the expense of the future.

Just normal people, and if things are going well, and the leaders are saying things are fine, people trusted that.

That's it folks, nothing else really to see here.

Now on the fringes you had the super selfish people who would grow up to be negligent self absorbed parents. But guess what, all of that stuff was already in the works and being acted out ON the Boomers, most of all who were kids back then.

The Boomers had no power and didn't start these trends at all. It was the Silent Generation before them, the parents of the Boomers, who got all of this stuff started and the Boomers themselves had to deal with selfish and out of touch parents first, they didn't come close to starting this stuff.

Here's a good documentary from 1978 about ridiculous Northern Californians living in their own New Age worlds of self absorption. Maybe some early Boomers in there, but mostly late Silents.

I was a little kid in the sixties, and I know what I am talking about. My parents and their friends all were off doing their own thing, checking in with their kids only when they had read some pop psych book that had theories they wanted to try out on their lab rat kids.

I remember the change over in public education, the "New Math," the "Alternative Schools," the excitement about the new vaccination devices that looked like pistols, and the herding of kids into the cafeteria and the rapid mass vaccinations.

I remember all the special classes, classes for the "Gifted," and the backing off of Reading, Writing, and Math, and the bringing to the fore of feelings and creativity. The new standardized multiple choice tests you wrote with number two pencils so they could be quickly graded by machines and compared to scores around the nation.

LSD was suddenly everywhere and legal, weed was all around, but not smoked or dropped by Boomer kids like me. It was all used by our parents. I am so glad LSD was illegal by the time I got to high school. I had a teacher tell me about how he would have students back in the sixties who would just stare blankly at their hand the whole period.

Do you think the Boomers were old enough to get all this stuff done?

You are dreaming!

This massive bit of social engineering was courtesy of the Silent Generation, and possibly, possibly, some early Boomers.

It is pure madness to blame all this stuff on the Boomers. It would be like your kids blaming you for growing up with smartphones. Makes no sense.

And you don't have to believe me. I just listened to a true crime podcast that was an interview with the youngest of Manson's followers. If you have the time, check it out for an idea of how out of control the sixties was.

True Murder Dianne Lake

This girl was born in 1951. If you listen to the podcast, you will see that her world was already out of control by the early sixties. She is right in the center of the Boomers, and HER parents were already doing their own thing, and letting their kids try drugs, and hitchhike all over the place by themselves. They lived all over, in cars, whatever.

She joined the Manson gang in 1967 when she was only 14.



She was unequivocally born into this mess.

And her parents were Silents.

Here is the bad news. All of you are a lot more like the Boomers than you are different from them.

You are still kicking the debt further down the road to maintain your current standard of living.

How is this different from the Boomers?

The only difference from what I can see is that you have way more access to information than the Boomers ever did.

And this makes you superior to them how?

You are going to just have to come to terms with that.

Learn to love your inner Boomer.

Or your kids will end up hating you are lot more than you are currently hating your parents.

I really don't understand the hate for the generation before you. My parents were just like yours and I am in my fifties. They spent all their money on lifestyle and weird hippie projects, and had nothing left for their kids and I just feel like they are my parents. Not even a house. Had to sell that and hustle like bastards to find a home for them when the declined badly. Fine in some ways, and foolish in others. Just human beings. I didn't think of them as that goddamn silent generation. I didn't even remember what generation they were until I had to look it up to write this.

I don't understand this wholesale dismissal of a generation, of your own family and countrymen. I was reading, a ways back, the writings of a Russian engineer who had moved to the U.S., and he said something similar.

That he couldn't understand the hate of the young for the old. He remembered older folk who were actual communists, and he had no hate for them. He might think an older person who still referred to Russia as the USSR was silly, but that was about it.

To me it all seems like more social engineering, the divide and conquer bit. Just the generational equivalent of the race thread in this place. I understand it, but I wish you guys would see through it like you see through so much else.

But then, why listen to me? I am just a boomer.

Look at that list of war crimes. It is on the internet, it must be true.



Love you guys, you're just out of your minds on this one.

[nomadbrah]

I consider it more an attempt to reach the boomer by way of meme-magic.

One last chance of redemption for the boomer.