Baby boomers Ruined America: Why Blaming Millennials is Misguided — and Annoying

[loyalsister]

84. The yuppies among the boomers

got their "greed is good" values from the Reagan revolution (they were a very large voting block when he was elected). They passed the materialism and self entitlement on to older gen xers. These are my parents, their friends, and my classmates.

I grew up in an expanding suburb in the 80s, and the excess and superficial values were as advertised. It seems that just about everyone I went to HS with was obsessed with money beginning in elementary school. Not much has changed for many of them. They also absorbed the religious right rhetoric that was building at the time, as some of the boomers were shamed into believing they had sinned themselves toward hell in the 60s.

There is plenty of blame to go around. When it comes to generations behind the boomers, let's not forget who raised them. One philosophical problem came with the awareness self esteem and misguided ways to help promote it. The "you can be anything you want if you try hard enough" message resulted in an assumption that the loftiest goals are within reach.

There are subsets in every generation that contribute to the good and the bad.