Have things gotten really worse, or have I just become an Old Fart?

[Demo_Chris]

109. Two things give me some hope: The Internet, and that younger generations are not boomers...

Younger generations do not share the Boomer's cultural values of unconditional selfishness and greed, and the "leave nothing behind but smoking wreckage" self-entitled party-till-you-drop ethics that defines the Boomer generation.

Anyone who has paid any attention at all has seen this disaster coming for decades. It's been like watching the towering white wall of a tsunami sweeping towards shore, knowing that you are personally powerless to stop it and that when it hits it will obliterate everything. The hope, for younger people, was that somehow we would survive it, and when the party generation was gone, begin the process of rebuilding.

Rebuilding, as in paying off the twenty trillion in debt the Boomers racked up and handed off to their kids and grandkids. Rebuilding, as in fixing the infrastructure that the Boomers inherited and then watched crumble. Rebuilding, as in rejecting the ignorance and intolerance of their religions, and perhaps finally accepting that all men and women, all races and genders, all sexual orientations, are EQUALLY deserving of respect. Rebuilding the jobs and businesses that the Boomers outsourced once they rounded the corner and headed towards retirement. Rebuilding our reputation with the rest of the world by ending the wars of aggression the Boomers love so dearly. Rebuilding from the smoldering ashes of the Boomer's great party.

The hope was that they would leave SOMETHING we could use to begin the process -- some scraps and debris we could use to cobble together our lives. But it seems that the Boomers found a market for that as well, and they are grinding up the ashes and rubble and selling it to China. So I don't know what else there is but hope. The people who burned it down won't have to deal with any of this. We will. But we'll remember.