Baby Boomers & their children ... are they selfish ?

At my ritual Sunday morning breakfast, coffee and the paper at Panera Bread I was reading an article about the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. There was an article from the attendees point of view and an article that doesn't think it was that great from an at the time 9 yr olds point of view.

In 1969, my Dad was 30. The Woodstock fan was 17-21 yrs of age maybe and the contrasting writer was 9.
Today my Dad is 70, I am 30 and the Baby Boomers kids are what 15-25 ?

My Dad was working more than 40 hrs a week and had 4 kids then.
I am working more than 40 hours hrs a week and have 4 reasons why the baby boomers and their kids might be ruining the world.

The contrasting writer on Woodstock said, 'Doesn't the self regard and self significance make you want to vomit?' I agree.
'400,000 people gathered for a rock concert and didn't kill each other.
Ten Years later in 1979 1.2 million people showed up in Grant Park for a Mass with Pope John Paul II and you never hear them claiming it was a rend in the timespace continuum. Even more people are flocking to the lakefront for the Air & Water show this weekend and we didn't act like it's some epochal moment - just another summer weekend in Chicago.'

3 million people watch the fireworks in Grant Park on July 3rd every year. A number I choose to forget of people watched Obama on Grant Park in 11/4/08 declare his desire to screw up our country even more. Bigger groups of people have gathered but theirs was an epic moment in time.

The baby boomers grew up with the big three automakers catering to them in the mustang, the minivan and the mid life crisis mobiles. And how do the boomers repay the Big 3. They by a Honda.

Boomers took the discipline out of the family and schools, they threatened legal action because it was never their fault, they put a lower emphasis on family values .... and we are supposed to rework health care so they can be taken care of in their retirement.

Their kids are no picnic. They think they are entitled to cell phones, nice cars, immediate jobs out of college with nice pay. They think they can walk down a street on a cell phone and everyone caters to them to get out of their way and they can talk on the phones and run red lights. When in those jobs they leave at 5 and shutter at the fact that they have to work and think. They do the minimum and go through the motions and expect promotions and raises. Most importantly from what I have seen, they have attitudes our parents and us would never have treated our elders with. They have no respect for their elders or authority.


I am not exalting my parents or I's generations but I am not humbling it either. I am just being observant as to what I see. I see two generations of selfishness and entitlement. Of course their is a footnote that their is always exceptions to this and some 20-25 yr olds right now are the opposite, I just point out the flaws of the obvious and the majority.
I do applaude the exceptions and hope they rise above the majority to be their bosses one day.

In conclusion, think about how the world might be a better place if we went back to respecting our elders, respecting others, taking more personal responsibility and less blame. Doing honest work, honest pay, honest living. Everone makes what they want out of their life. Capitalism is not a bad thing. You work hard, you play hard. You don't want to work, you don't get a handout.
You gotta figure out how to make not working work for you.

Maybe that's the Peace we need !