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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat do you think about the new "Ok Boomer" trend? (from Quora)
What I've always wondered, why did the mini skirts fad of the 60's never return ?!!
(younger people viewing the original Star Trek must be mystified !! LOL)
I think its hilarious. If you want to take on the Boomers, remember this:
Our parents were awesome at parenting. They were incredibly mean pricks, but they did a great job of parenting.
Our parents were raised in the Great Depression. They fought in WWII and Korea. They didnt have any money, so they had good manners and class instead. They worked really hard and they saved their money. They were stoic and drank Schlitz beer. No lie, the most popular beer in the USA was called Schlitz.
https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-about-the-new-Ok-Boomer-trend/answer/Richard-Johnson-821
Faux pas
(14,580 posts)source
DBoon
(22,284 posts)First demonized, then trivialized, now completely vanished
As an example, the Campaign for Economic Democracy was once a force in California politics working for environmental and renters' rights issues. It is now a footnote in a Google search.
Aristus
(66,075 posts)who fucked the world up as badly as it is right now.
sarge43
(28,939 posts)you won't live long enough to see the people who are currently dumping on the elderly live to be dump on themselves by the young and they will. You know, the wheel of time, it rolls over us all.
Says a member of the Silent Generation.
femmedem
(8,187 posts)I changed jobs when I moved to a different town so I could continue walking to work because of climate change. I became vegan because of climate change, with a dose of caring about animal welfare. I never had kids because of climate change. And I've been not just a voter, but a door-to-door campaigner, for a long time, too.
So I'm sad that someone a few decades younger--or even just a few years younger--could look at me and just see a boomer who helped fuck everything up.
Not many of us changed their lives to the degree I have, but it isn't easy to become carbon neutral when mass transit doesn't work well in low density suburbs, when your job doesn't pay enough to solarize everything (I still heat with gas), etc. Most of us mean well but feel powerless in the face of something so big and so awful. I don't think many young people would have done better if they'd been born when I was, when few understood the science and no one understood how fast things would accelerate.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)and not entitled to respect, no matter what good you may have done throughout your life. But the moving finger having writ moves on, and the Millenials and gen-whatevers who are sneering at us old fossils now will someday be regarded as just as worthless as they consider us to be now. Then it will be, "OK, Millennial," with a condescending chuckle.
femmedem
(8,187 posts)the community gardens, the push for a living wage, the struggle for educational parity and affordable housing all come together through the work of multigenerational, diverse volunteers.
And also in real life, in my small city, I've never felt dismissed because of my age. But I've seen "Ok Boomer" type statements online from people who are only two or three years younger than me. I don't think people realize that when they make a general statement like that, not referring to a specific person, it's just making the world uglier and more divided when we need all-hands-on-deck collaboration.
sl8
(13,584 posts)If so, you might be a Boomer.
Publication date 1906-06-14
Topics Humor Magazines, Life, the humor magazine, generation gap, hackwork, junk, trash, style, fashion, modernity
Language English
Young woman says to her elderly father, "Oh, Papa, drop that stupid Emerson! Here's the daintiest new novel. It's the latest thing in literature and you must read it or you'll get behind the times." Artist: Source: Tom Harris, collector/seller, on eBay as tabasco_life Restoration by: magscanner
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)I dont get it.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Im missing that whole hippie flower child thing. No one designed the look. It just grew organically with the pot use.
FakeNoose
(32,328 posts)Then I became a parent, and I realized that MY parents had very little to do with the way the economy, politics and social changes happened in the 60s and 70s. My parents were just as hog-tied as we were, but they never complained about it like we did. We Boomers really were the protest generation and we did affect a lot of changes.
Even so, there's only so much that one generation - or one decade - can change anything, when all the money and all the power is held by another group. The group that holds the wealth and power (I'm talking about the one-per-centers) will never allow youngsters to muscle in and make changes.
It seems to me, now that I'm in my late 60's, that the secret is for all the liberals and progressives of every generation to reach across the age-divide and share our wisdom and energy. It's the only way to beat these one-per-centers at their own game. We outnumber them by so many, why can't we beat them at the polls? It has to happen sooner or later.
femmedem
(8,187 posts)Every generation has its sociopaths who crave--and therefore acquire and wield--power.
Harker
(13,870 posts)saying that would be if I were in the company of a certain ex-Bengal QB.
Kaleva
(36,145 posts)NNadir
(33,368 posts)Our parents very much cared about leaving us a better world, and achieved it, I think.
We, not so much.
I think we need to be called out.
catbyte
(34,165 posts)have a great sense of humor. Not all of us Boomers have contributed to fucking up the world. Younger people can't imagine how demoralizing it is to see everything you've fought so hard for decades being pissed away and shattered by a hateful minority in less than four years.
It sucks and I hope it never happens to any other age group.
And that picture is from the 1980s. They're not Boomers.