your first three paragraphs aren’t particularily coherent. your main point seems to be that generational distinctions are artificial. this is incorrect. i’m not sure how much sociology you’ve studied but there are distinctly quantifiable variances between generational groups. in fact there is so much empirical evidence to support this that i’m actualy taken aback. psyche 101 dictates that we are least partial products of our environments. you maintain that defined characteristics can’t be attributed to a given generation, let’s just nip this one in the bud shall we. prior to this most recent election, karl rove announced that mccain cold win if they could just stop the young people from voting. do you honestly believe that any prior generation would have a elected a black man as the president of the country?

regarding, your last paragraph. firstly don’t patronize me with your fake bs. in my words i alluded to events and actions that that do in fact “mean something”, touch up on your reading comprehension next time:
- “at every opportunity they cut and ran.”
- “allowed decisions to be made by proxies.”
- “chose not to get involved and gave authority to greed and evil.”
- “sold their souls to comfort, laziness and ignorance by avoiding responsibility and duty.”
one could almost write a book about each of these themes.

i have no hatred. only frustration and anger. whereas hatred distorts and warps, anger is a great primal motivator and can be an almost endless source of energy.

i’ve addressed your alleged “fictional time division”. the American dream started to die with madison’s tutelage at the constitutional congress of 1787. it has suffered gradual erosion ever since. but never such a regimented attack as under the watch of the boomers. the feca act of 1971 opened the doors of washington to pac’s and lobbyists. today we have over 35,000 lobbyists and 10,000 pac’s. the revolving door policy in our government means that the heads of the fda, epa, doe, treasury, fdic, etc all come from the corporate sector. our government is a government of the corporations, for the corporations by the corporations. this is the greatest single threat to our republic and most of the damage has happened in the last thirty years. while there’s plenty of blame to go round, the majority of the burden lies with the boomers because unlike prior generations they had access to electronic media and choose to ignore it. the previous generations relied upon pony express, paper or narrow spectrum wireless for their information. the boomers had access to it all and choose to turn a blind eye while their government poisoned everything.

The “Boomers” didn’t really do a whole lot, good or bad. Neither did “Gen-X” (except, as the joke goes, they also bitched about not doing a lot the whole time). All this “screw the boomers, they made this mess” is painfully naive. And this rallying around some fictional generational construct sickens me to my very core. There is no “Great Generation” and never will be. Generations are fabricated divisions of time, not cultural or social movements. _Successful_ Socio-political movements have always involved a very diverse collection of people, not just one group, whether it’s a group of race, age, or nationality.

Rarely have I seen such ridiculous propaganda. The only thing that kept me from rolling on the floor laughing was that I’m at work.

P.S. oh, and Marcus, you may be a decent wordsmith, but words are only pretty if they mean something. You bile-spewing at a fictional time division demeans no one but yourself. And if you did a little research with the passion that you seem to hate with, you’d realize that the American Dream was long gone before your parents where ever a twinkle in your grandparents’ sex-craved eyes. dumbass.