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?
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If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.
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?
Please help me understand...
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Everyone's been complicit since at least Lincoln. Stack a country 3000 miles wide under a central government and it will eventually start kicking.
The top pic reminds me of a good metaphorical documentary on the Boomer generation: the movie Easy Rider.
Two motorcycle boomers contract with a Jew to import drugs from Mexicans up to California. The Jew makes it clear he is going to push these drugs on White school kids but the boomers really want to have a Good Time so that doesn't bother them. They use the profit to finance a motorcycle trip across the country to Mardi Gras, and during the journey they engage in all sorts of degeneracy: drugs, casual sex, drugs, visiting a boomer hippie commune where everyone is on drugs, laughing at the local peasants. Normal boomer stuff.
They meet a guy who they befriend, and when he gets killed they just leave his corpse on the side of the road so their Good Time is not interrupted. They do visit the whorehouse their dead friend recommended, where they do drugs with the hookers. A Good Time is had by all.
Important symbolism is present through the entire movie. One of the main boomers is decorated with US flags and so is his motorcycle. In pursuit of his Good Time he rides that motorcycle until it is literally destroyed, never once having a care for its future.
Really good movie if you have the time and you watch it for what it is.
If you want some *real* good stuff to rag on the Boomers about read Tom Wolfe's "Electric Kool Aid Acid Test"--about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on their bus trip.
"Easy Rider" Was Hollywood's Boomers. Ken Kesey and his bunch pretty much kicked off the 60s counterculture movement in real life. Although some people might attribute it to Jack Kerouac and the beatniks--"On The Road" and all of that new age poetry stuff. Although there was significant blending of the two groups at that time since beatnik Neal Cassidy was the driver of the hippies Merry Prankster bus. The real 60s counterculture movement didn't really last all that long. Charles Manson, of the Silent generation pretty much put the hiatus on it in 1969. So it was only a 4 or 5 year phenomenon.
Anybody remember Maynard G. Krebs?
That's who he was before he became Gilligan.
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If you want to understand the counter culture hippie movement “On The Road” as a beatnik forerunner and especially the “Electric Kool Aid Test” pretty well explain it. It wasn’t a random movement that sprung out of nowhere. There are key figures that if not started it they took it mainstream. Tom Wolfe’s book spells it out. It’s entertaining and a must read for understanding the roots of where it started IMO.
Back in the early days of LSD Ken Kesey was a janitor in a San Francisco psych ward and stealing LSD intended for patients. He experimented with it and wrote a book about it. “One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest.” Kesey’s, book later made into a movie made Kesey an overnight celebrity and he used his proceeds to hire a mostly unknown local band the Greatful Dead to be his house band while giving out LSD and hiring Neal Cassidy, made famous by Jack Kerouac and his book “On The Road” as his driver to ride around the Bay Area passing out LSD in punch bowls the “electric kool aid test.” He hired The Hells Angels for security and an attempt to bring the working class counterculture bikers on board with the upper middle class hippie counter culture and it kicks off from there. Kesey more than anyone took a small subculture hippie movement mainstream.
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?
Please help me understand...
Thanks
Everyone's been complicit since at least Lincoln. Stack a country 3000 miles wide under a central government and it will eventually start kicking.
Oh my...
Lincoln died 158 years ago...
So we were doomed to E scooters them?
If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.
Gen X, child of the Forgotten Generation. Mom, Dad Step Dad all born before the war or during.
Parents were of a generation ignored, Us too!
Seems like Boomers were catered to, their kids were worse.
Thank God and my folks their attention included beating our asses and working us.
Not sure what 2003-07 is, but two girls of that Era were raised similar. Many of their friends show similar signs, Kids in the trades, nursing school, medical fields, one you girl with her CDL and soon to graduate operators school qualified in everything but cranes.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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?
Please help me understand...
Thanks
Generation Jones is noted for coming of age after a huge swath of their older brothers and sisters in the earlier portion of the Baby Boomer population had; thus, many note that there was a paucity of resources and privileges available to them that were seemingly abundant to older Boomers. Therefore, there is a certain level of bitterness and "jonesing" for the level of doting and affluence granted to older Boomers but denied to them
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