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When It Comes To the Baby Boomers, It Is Still All About “Me”
Millennials have got nothing over the Me Generation, says cultural historian Amy Henderson after touring two new shows on Boomers and the ‘60s
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/when-comes-baby-boomers-still-all-about-me-180953030/
In neighborhood movie theaters across the nation, silver screens projected celluloid icons that were larger-than-life. The glamour studio, MGM, proclaimed its acting stable included “more stars than there are in the heavens.” Ego was essential to the star personality, and the studios went to extraordinary lengths to nurture a grand scale of star narcissism. Between 1989 and 1994, I conducted a number of interviews with one of the biggest stars of that era, Katharine Hepburn. I remember how she wagged her finger at me and said: “I was a movie star from my first days in Hollywood!” She called her 1991 memoir Me.
With the break-up of the studio system after World War II, the “self” had to find a new starship. The population explosion that began in 1946 and, according to the United States Census, extended until 1964, produced a generation of “Baby Boomers” who merrily embraced their selfhood. Hollywood cinema had helped to shape the idea of “Me,” for adolescents of the great depression, who would grow up to became World War II’s “Greatest Generation.” But it was television that branded the coming-of-age for the Boomers. TV was an immediate communicator, broadcasting events instantly to living rooms across the nation. Boomers learned the transformative power of change from their sofas, and the immediacy of television instilled a lasting sense of personal connection to the techtonic cultural changes that were “Blowin’ in the Wind.”
Writing in 1976, journalist Tom Wolfe described Boomers as creating a “Me Generation” that was rooted in postwar prosperity. Good times created “the luxury of the self,” and Boomers happily involved themselves with “remaking, remodeling, elevating, and polishing one’s very self … and observing, studying, and doting on it (Me!)” Their mantra was, “Let’s talk about Me!” TIME Magazine has chronicled the attention-adoring Boomer Generation from the start, beginning with a February 1948 article that described the postwar population burst as a “Baby Boom.” Twenty years after the boom began, TIME’s “Man of the Year” featured the generation “25 and Under.” When the Boomers hit 40, TIME wrote about “Growing Pains at 40.”
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From the August 23, 1976 issue of New York Magazine.
https://nymag.com/news/features/45938/
as well, also sightings of wild animals, requests for identification of plants, and recommendations of handymen. Happy to say that the few politically agitated sorts haven't gained traction, sufficient support clearly lacking (even though both neighborhoods mostly conservative) but probably also sometimes blocked by the moderators.
The only time I've posted on vaccination was to agree with neighbors who felt they had a moral duty to self, family, and society.
neighborhood was the lead and basically controlled everything. Some years later there were now teams of reviewers who apparently like, MIRT here, reviewed alerted posts. Except, that the only way become a reviewer was to be chosen by the lead. (!) That could go a long way to explaining why some groups became so toxic and others what they were meant to be.
I don't check either frequently eiether, in part because we're fairly isolated from most "neighbors" and also away from both for long periods. I hope more of our neighbors have become acquainted in real life from them, though. It's a great idea and opportunity for good things.
Except we’ve got endangered coyotes to deal with.
You ought see these Mrs Kravits-es go apeshit when they spot one on their doorbell app. That’s when the real fun starts! 
It's exactly what we've all been saying here on DU. I'm glad you posted this and you should ignore their crap.
They haven't got an intelligent response because they know you're right!
and haven't posted but scan through some of the topics as it sortof keeps me up to date with what is going on around my neighborhood.
Thankfully my area and surrounding 'burbs are deep blue and I have observed the opposite of your experience - the one or two loons who might attempt a ridiculous political comment, will immediately get completely smashed into oblivion. Plus I have seen dodgy (often slyly racist or bigoted) post headers in my email and by the time I got to the post, it had been removed. 
Response to marble falls (Reply #36)
Not much anonymity on NextDoor. 
That's not what the Bible says! Burn baby burn!!!
(Just don't burn the steak.)
