You want to know why Newsweek sucks? Because they ask needless questions, such as “Are Baby Boomers responsible for the economic downturn?” Newsweek, you could have just stopped after four words. Of COURSE Baby Boomers are responsible. They are responsible for everything that’s gone wrong in America for the past 40 years. There are several different viable ways of running a country, but filling it with a generation of narcissists isn’t one of them. People complain “today’s kids don’t know how to work, they just want everything.” Well, who raised them that way? Childhood is by definition egocentric; growing up is supposed to be a process of learning to move beyond that. However, just about every under-30 in the country was raised to believe the sun does indeed shine out his ass. Baby Boomers were incapable of teaching anyone how to get over himself because they never thought it was worth learning how to do. Now they have no shame complaining about having to own a smaller house or fewer than 1.2 cars per licensed driver. This is the generation that brought you the idea that not shopping at Whole Foods is somehow jeopardizing your family’s health.
Note to old people: retiring is what you do when you can’t work anymore. It’s not what you do when you no longer enjoy work. The name for that is “being an adult.” Perhaps you should learn about it, before you finish bankrupting the country.
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Nice...and I agree as far as a broad baby-boomer sterotype goes. Funny how I have achieved what I thought would be my ULTIMATE dream job, and on an every other day basis, I flip from feeling unappreciated and unchallenged, to feeling inadequate and incapable of my assignments? Both gut feelings make me want to quit. What’s wrong with me I often wonder but then I remember that I'm a middle class, middle aged, white, balding, American male adult, and am as pathetically as normal and boring as everyone else.
Hoo-rah for me.
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