Nothing wonderful about baby boomers
Re “Boomers as boob-tubers,” Opinion, March 30
Please spare me from yet another boomer pulling a muscle as he or she pats themselves and their fellow age-group members on the back. The Me Generation is still living up to its name.
No other generation writes anywhere near the amount of pablum about itself as the horrendously selfabsorbed boomers. There is nothing wonderful about boomers; they all won the chronological lottery when they were born during the years after World War II. The idealism of their youth in the ‘60s protested Vietnam and ushered in civil rights, but it was all downhill from there. Then came disco and no-consequence sex, deficit spending and materialism, followed by two presidents who are quintessential boomers: a likable adulterer who double-speaks out of both sides of his mouth and a likable moral hypocrite who favors deceit and profiting from his own preemptive war.
Go away, boomers. The rest of us will all do so much better without you.
TERRENCE HARTWELL
Toluca Lake
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