It’s Their Fault

Much of the reflexive anti-baby boomer anger that we younger generations carry is stirred up in discussions about real estate, especially in these post-bubble days.  Perhaps it is natural then, that one of the most drawn out forum debates on the issue of boomers shows up on a relocation website.  Let the flame war begin (actually [...]

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Victor Davis Hanson, in the National Review, has his own theory on the birth of what he deems our most selfish generation, and it is worth a read:
Sociologists have correctly diagnosed the perfect storm that created the “me” generation — sudden postwar affluence, sacrificing parents who did not wish us to suffer as they had [...]

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A handy, if morbid, tracker. 

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One of the most insidious crimes of the Baby Boomer generation is crime not of culture, violence, or selfishness (many of those to come, though): it’s a crime of language. They’ve taken one simple word, elite, and made it a weapon, a terrifying realm of negative space, perhaps Modern America’s most accommodating [...]

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A David Kushner article today in Fast Company looks at in-vogue theory of transmedia espoused by Tim Kring of Heroes and others in his sci-fi fold: that the key to marketing franchises - and the future of media itself - lies in expanding a single movie or TV show into a vast web of [...]

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Coincidence? I think not.  Either Barack watched too much of The Muppets as a kid, or he knows his audience, and has modeled his political victory pose off the lovable Sam the Eagle.  He should take note, though, that Sam wasn’t the political hero we may remember.

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This letter to Andrew Sullivan pretty much sums up what we’ll be discussing on this site.
[The Boomers] were the generation that got their wish in the 1960s with John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy. Who saw the promise of a new politics embodied in both men, and had the electoral power through sheer demographics [...]

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