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RadiationTherapy

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3. This is what I mean when I say "Boomers ate the world."

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 10:49 AM

Mar 2012

The point is moot, though, because in the context of the time and place they were being marketed to, it was unlikely there was anything particular about them that made them more susceptible to the techniques that encourage consumerism. It was a confluence of world domination of production by the US, marketing consumerism, and the largest generation this nation had known.

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On behalf of my generation of grandparents to all of you, I want to apologize. [View all] kpete Mar 2012 OP

C'mon and turn it on, wind it up, blow it out GTO!!!! bart95 Mar 2012 #1

I'm not sure the point to this el_bryanto Mar 2012 #2

This is what I mean when I say "Boomers ate the world." RadiationTherapy Mar 2012 #3

I love a good self-loathing screed slackmaster Mar 2012 #4

Go granny, go granny, go granny, go pinboy3niner Mar 2012 #5

I was talking to my grandson the other day and he mentioned how my generation messed up. But jwirr Mar 2012 #6