Baby Boomers: The Failed Generation

Those darn hippies. Will they never learn?

The Brazen Careerist hates baby boomers.
(Okay, but who doesn't?)

The psychedelic drugs of hippiedom are gone but not the need for something more than ordinary reality. So, the hippie-chicks and freaks of yesteryear have developed a cult-like of devotion to work and can't enjoy life unless they feel the pain of the 60-hour week.

If you tell them that the long hours are wrecking their families, you're bound to be met by angry bravado from superwomen who claim to work extreme hours yet take care of their broods as well as any full time mom.

But, never fear, the children of these masters of excess, have rebelled. They were raised in the Twelve-Step programs that cared for their parents when they crashed and burned. As a result, they are much more willing to put their families' welfare before any selfish need for kicks.

And, so, the wisdom of the past lives on. Old people are bad and young people are good. And so it shall ever be.

Comments

[laurence haughton]

"And so shall it ever be." You are absolutely right. The stuff this guy thinks he discovered was discovered long before his grandparents. I'm sure there are earlier references but for one check what Mary Parker Follett (the mother of management sciences) wrote about collaborations and hierarchies back in the very early 20th century. He reminds me of a scene from a favorite play, Fry's "The Lady's Not for Burning:"

NICHOLAS (the son). "I must tell you, I've just been reborn."

MARGARET (his mother). "Nicholas, you always think you can do things better than your mother. You can be sure you were born quite adequately on the first occasion."

[laurence haughton]

BTW It takes one to know one. I felt the same way about the silent majority.