07 February 2006
Boomer Apologia
I realize my descriptions do not apply to every boomer, or maybe even to most of them. I am specifically addressing those that were tossing around Frisbees and roach clips during the summer of love, but are now security moms and dads. They made it under the stars on the beach then, but are now outraged that Janet Jackson bares a breast during the Super Bowl. We have Ms. Roe, of Roe vs. Wade, who is now anti-abortion. In addition, our commander-in-chief, who was born again at forty? I guess that means I have seven more years to be a hedonist and no one would mind.
Boomers have reinvented what it means to be an American, for the worse. Sacrifice has disappeared from our civic vocabulary. Boomers have reinvented what it means to be an individual, for the worse. Instant gratification, what I want, right now. Everything they have touched has degenerated: our culture and politics are now infantile.
The greatest threat to our way of life in this century is religious fundamentalism and the terror it fuels. Our President is not addressing this problem seriously, but as a Boomer, with no pain or duty involved for all, but only those who choose it by joining the military. This transcendental approach will not result in victory for our country. We need to grow up, and face our duty as a people. We need to pay for what the government spends, not run bigger and bigger deficits. The President talking tough while focusing on mid-term elections will not help us win our war.
Boomers have reinvented what it means to be an American, for the worse. Sacrifice has disappeared from our civic vocabulary. Boomers have reinvented what it means to be an individual, for the worse. Instant gratification, what I want, right now. Everything they have touched has degenerated: our culture and politics are now infantile.
The greatest threat to our way of life in this century is religious fundamentalism and the terror it fuels. Our President is not addressing this problem seriously, but as a Boomer, with no pain or duty involved for all, but only those who choose it by joining the military. This transcendental approach will not result in victory for our country. We need to grow up, and face our duty as a people. We need to pay for what the government spends, not run bigger and bigger deficits. The President talking tough while focusing on mid-term elections will not help us win our war.
