Baby Boomers: “The Virus”
November 23, 2009
Baby Boomers: “The Virus”
sat down drinking an adult beverage with a baby boomer the other day. We got into a deep discussion of post World War America and all the changes that have transpired. It didn’t take long while the beverage was flowing, that this man started down memory lane about how meaningful and amazing the sixties were. Nails to a chalkboard to me.
He explained to me how you just had to be there. America was going through changes that were so historic, he was telling me. He digressed into a self-diluted tirade on how the generation nowadays, have no idea of the historic nature of the boomers. I sat patiently listening to the wonder years. I mean, after all, the flow of adult libations were financed by him, so I could hardly throw a wet blanket on the fire burning in his eyes as he told me his story.
It was a story I’ve heard before. It was a tale we’ve all heard at one time or another. I mean they just can’t keep themselves from transposing their twisted version of how important they all were and how history was so big right in front of their eyes. I felt like I was in the Three Dogs Night song, “Jeremiah was a Bullfrog.” You know, “he was a good friend of mine. I never understood a single word he’d said but I’d helped him drink his wine. He always had some mighty fine wine.” So we drank and I listened while we watch the sun going down on a hot autumn night enjoying my vacation.
The next day I woke up and was haunted by those words he spoke. I couldn’t believe how clueless and removed from how destructive his generation had been to America. How utterly clueless and not self aware of his own contribution to our decline. He had no understanding of the cancer or virus that has eaten away at the core of mankind at the hands of his generation. His dismissal of history itself after the sixties was....Read More
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