Boomers grew up with a share of national wealth that we will never have. At every point in their lives, they owned more than the generations that came after them. They are still hording this wealth. This is their defining characteristic. This relationship to the economy has constructed their worldview and has made them a distinct demographic of people which they have continually tried (and failed) to reproduce.

No, we are absolutely not the same as boomers on the grounds that we went to school, watched tv, and listened to music.

"Getting mad at them for being how they are is an understandable response. But, I also think it's kind of silly. Those first boomers had to navigate all that without the benefit of older adults who had grown up in similar conditions."

Honestly?

There are a lot of "boomers" out there that aren't right-wing assholes or silly liberals simply vooting as a response to every crisis. Hell, a lot of out alternative media (for better or for worse) is run by "boomers" or was originally started by them (Black Agenda Report comes to mind).

Don't be too entranced by the stereotype, is all I'm saying; that stereotype is kinda a myth and not necessarily the rule.

IMHO.

The whole categorization of people by age is just another way the oligarchs use ANY perceived difference as a way to divide and conquer the working class.

The phrase "boomers pulled up the ladder" is designed to hide the fact that the oligarchs have stolen all the ladders they could steal, and burned the ones they couldn't steal.

We have to get people to focus on the REAL enemy if we are going to have any chance of survival.

We are all boomers because we make boom boom in tha bathroom

Well shit. There goes the planet.

i boomed in the toilet a few hours ago

Ok, boomer. (j/k, the meme was just too fitting)

Speak for yourself boomer

So, there's Baby Boomer as a weird arbitrary pop culture delineation of a generational group thing and then there's "boomer", the meme.

Remember which one you're talking about.

This is it. This is the one good take on yankeedom's generational politics. The generation we traditionally define as "boomer", people born within the first twenty years after the end of WWII; that generation has far more in common with subsequent generations than any of us do with any generation before. In the broad view of history, we're the same.

I developed this same take from watching old USA television from the 1950s.

You look at places like NY suburbs depicted back then, they look exactly like suburbs now, just different cars and people wear suits and it's all crackers

people born within the first twenty years after the end of WWII; that generation has far more in common with subsequent generations than any of us do with any generation before. In the broad view of history, we're the same.

I wouldn't say the take is completely correct, it's more like Boomers are a transitional group with one foot in each world, and then the rest of us are all solely from the second world. Kinda like how Millennials are half IRL people and half internet people, and Zoomers and later on have only known the internet. Boomers still have a lot in common with gens before them, and Millennials still have a lot in common with gens before them

What about all the immigrant boomers who did not experience all the developmental things you mentioned (standardized education, unalderated night sky, coomer childhood) who still end up more or less identical to their native born counterparts? I unironically believe that all thwme traits we associate with boomerdom comes from lead poisoning. I saw some study saying their rate of cognitive decline is much higher than previous generations at the same age. I can only hope that lead concentrations had gone down sufficiently during our childhoods such that we won't suffer the same fate.

Fool I was to think I'd live to see a day when George Bush Jr. and Dick Cheney were buried and forgotten, for I was born into decades of political baggage I have no hope of escaping.