Originally Posted by CashisKing
Therein... if the Jones Generation stood on the shoulders of the Boomer Generation and hence multiplied their epic failure... Is not the Jones Generation fully complicit in the abject patheticness of Gen XYZ?

This sort of causal relationship is in place between all generations. Easy Rider boomers smoked dope and let women behave poorly in order to differentiate themselves from previous generations, subsequent people did similar things to stand out from them. By the time X came around the Overton window had slid enough that smoking dope was just something a most people did and the idea a woman could choose to focus her time on children and her home instead of her next promotion at the office was openly laughed at.

Predictable results:
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Boomers tend to be singled out for this stuff because the full impact of their choices are now affecting generations just coming into adulthood. That and the fact they threw away a stable function society and the greatest global economic conditions of any generation since the Industrial Revolution. That and prior generations generally had some concern for the world they were leaving for their children, but as is obvious from this thread and pretty much all other boomer ones, boomers do not.

Fortunately for the future, with the invention of the WWW people can easily see photo and video evidence of the world the boomers traded for their Good Time and maybe make some changers to head back in that direction.