Everyone is the main character of his/her own story, a supporting character to their circle of friends and family, a bit part to some of their co-workers and neighbors, and an extra to everyone else in the world.

@@MelanieNLee I disagree: Many people are intricately aware of how themselves and their lives constitute only a small part of the bigger picture. Boomers were elevated by the wartime generation as "the future" as "hope" as "what we were fighting for" and now they are reeling in disbelief that the world has moved beyond them. They are in abject shock that they are actually going to die, and that life will continue after they are gone, and, they are very prepared to take it down with them, from the world leaders who have their fingers hovering gleefully over the nuclear launch buttons, to the layman scoffing at any suggestion of lifestyle changes to protect the environment for future generations.

@@reaceness We Boomers grew up with the ideas of protecting the environment, ending racism, and ending war. In our eyes, our parents' generation was responsible for creating pollution, continuing racism, and glorifying war. So it turns out now that too many of us let go of those ideals and have embraced the advantages--to certain people--of capitalism, racism, warmongering, and yes, ignoring our corporate industrial system's impact upon the environment. Or maybe, this generation gap has always existed, from generation to generation, with a younger generation blaming their parents for the world's woes. One day, Reace Novello, you will receive this attitude from your children. I disavow the idea that Baby Boomers always espoused war, racism, runaway capitalism, and anti-environmentalism, but I must acknowledge the fact that too many of us grew up to become like that. However, I also believe that at least some of us hold onto those "love and peace" ideals and continue to fight for them. Some of us, still, desire those ideals, but may have given up the fight.

And they are still trying to hold it back.

yes this will happen to you too

What gets me is that you can do all you can to educate and they still won't understand and then you are drained of your bowl.

If you think she'd be open to hearing, I had great 'awareness' with my relative by printing off and describing some numbers out there, adjusted for today's costs. I asked what she paid for her house as the average and what the salaries were. So if house back then cost x% of income, take a look at that ratio now. How salaries have not kept up with something like housing (just one cost, you can use others like college loans/ education, even a car) and suddenly the light went on. Dollars to dollars. Why 2 incomes are needed is not just to pay for the 'luxuries', it's to pay for the basics. She had a context she could understand better.

Because this generation f*** up

Exactly! I don’t agree with this video saying that we should take their advice because it’s a different world now

damn I’m glad I finished reading this entire post because I was about to say that your grandma sounds really mean oof. but I actually think it’s really sad when I hear about people in marginalized groups say stuff like this, because it makes me think that they believed the stuff society told them about pulling themselves up by the bootstraps and eventually leading them to try and push those same thoughts onto other people. and that really sucks. I hope you and your family find peace in these hard times ❤

Yeah I’m right there with you, waiting for them to pass on. It’s beyond me how they are elected officials that really don’t represent the majority, considering millennials and Gen z outnumber them.

Damn..... from someone in Australia

Great analysis. I'm really sorry your parents treated you like that and I can definitely understand you anger. I really can't disagree with anything you have said about the generation as a whole. Obviously, not every boomer fits this mold, but they still control virtually all aspects of our lives at this point and the bulk of the ones that have this power couldn't give 2 shits about anyone that comes after them.

Damn. Said exactly what I would've & a lot more eloquently. Right there with ya although a skosh younger! Thank you for putting this into words.

Very well said. You absolutely nailed it.

Gentle parenting? Nope. Most parents of contemporaries couldn’t give a rat’s ass about empathy…and almost all of us were children of Boomers. Nice try, but no dice. Gentle Parenting was as a result of bad Boomer parenting.

@@Trix897 do you mean permissive parenting? Letting your kids do whatever. That’s not what gentle parenting is. Gentle parenting is basically just teaching them how to people. Trust me it takes way more effort

I think you may mean attachment parenting. 😊

@@chasingdharmaify Is that the official term for it? I’ve only been getting advice from other parents online. Maybe it’ll be easier to get book about that.

Gentle parenting was an invention of the lost generation. Gen X...

Their goal is to make life better for their kids and when they do they complain.

I agree with that. My parents were both born in 1950 and they had a different taste in music and fashion than their parents, but otherwise? They went to work, put their money into their house and cars and tried to build a little bit of wealth by saving money. They might have had some dreams and some verbal fights with their parents, but otherwise no big rebels. And neither were their friends. My father actually dreamed of crossing the USA by motorcycle like in Easy Rider, but it never happened. We’re from Germany and I found a travel catalog for the USA after my father died. 🥲 It’s not so easy to live your dreams and change the world. People want to be rebels when their young but they also want children and for those children they want a roof over their heads, steady income, good schools. We shouldn’t look down on our boring, bourgeois boomer parents, when they became that way for us.

There’s this weird phenomenon where the counter culture aspect generations get the most remembered despite being counterculture and therefore not the majority. Most women weren’t flappers in the 1920s. Most boomers weren’t hippies.

@@kimberlyterasaki4843. Bingo! The best example from the article was the support for the Vietnam War. I remember in school we would talk about the protest and I seemed like there was just this huge movement against the war. Meanwhile one statistic the article sited was to the majority of Boomers supported the war and most of the men that fought in it voluntarily enlisted. Not to disregard the men that were drafted but the anti war movement wasn't the majority of Boomers like people think.

Same when people make it seem like there was this HUGE support for the civil rights movement. Even in the black community there was push back not just against the more radical elements, but even MLK. It's a dirty secret almost.

“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the 'consolation' of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.” I think a lot of the Boomers who were actually out fighting for justice and change were either straight-up murdered (such as Fred Hampton or the Mississippi Burning murders), were imprisoned (leading to worse health later on that would kill them prematurely), or they died from drug use (heroin and cocaine in particular). What we're left with are the conservative boomers who want to pretend they were in the resistance and not part of the Vichy government.

Civil rights laws were also signed by Great Generation politicians and supporters of the New Deal. No, they weren't always great parents. A significant chunk of them were terrible parents. But at least they implemented widespread societal change in an attempt to make sure their kids wouldn't have to live like they did during the World Wars or the Depression.

Where one generation starts and another ends has always been vague, those people mentioned are on the cusp so I’d let it slide

@@jerlinej3516 Not for the Boomers. The Baby Boom was a well-defined demographic event that occurred *after* WWII.

But of course, at least until recently, it was perfectly normal and natural for one's icons to be 5-20 years older than oneself as a teen. When you are in highschool, the people making it big are those in their early to mid twenties. The internet has changed that, but up until the mid 00s, that's just how it was.

I noticed that musicians are always a generation older than their target audience. Millennials like bands like Green Day(Gen X) and a lot of Gen Z musicians are basically millennials

I remember them trying it with Karen

People who have the nostalgia power seem to think being a victim is club they aren't allowed in so of course they want in but ya know without the problems that come with it

Ah yes my favourite kind of statement: “X group WILL find a way to do y thing”. If someone made a similar statement such as “Liberals and Progressives WILL take a normal thing everyone does and try and be offended by it. That’s messed up” you’d tell them to stop generally and being silly.

@@jessicavictoriacarrillo7254 yep

Maybe conservatives but definitely not libertarians.

OK, but none of those people were old enough to be Boomer parents. John Lennon was 5 when the baby boom started. George Harrison was 2. So maybe they were not "technically" Boomers, but they were a lot closer to them than their parents who were born in the 20s & 30s.

@@thevirtualtraveler okay, let me revise my initial comment thusly. Baby Boomers are guilty of the very thing they complain about their descendants supposedly doing: riding the coattails of *the previous generation’s hard work. Also counterpoint: it’s all arbitrary anyways, the concept of generations and where one ends and another begins. The cut off year for Baby Boomers is usually 1964. By that year, Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones had five children with five women before he turned 23 the following year. John Lennon was also 23 when he and his first wife Cynthia had Julian Lennon in 1963. My mother was born in 1965, making her GenX. Does that mean she has nothing in common with Julian Lennon who was born a Boomer just two years prior? So I agree that someone born towards the beginning of a generation has more in common with the previous one than someone born towards the end of their generation. But I was born four years after my Millennial sister and five years before my GenZ sister, if I don’t really fit neatly into either generation what does that make me? Food for thought

Not a boomer thing...that's a people thing.

Ya the oldest boomers were just coming of age tbh

Then sent their kids to a never ending war for Israel and lied about why we went.

They were certainly originally called the "Me Generation" for a good reason!

This right here... There are undoubtedly cultural shifts that people live through that mark them as a group (so yeah generations) but the obsessiveness of this categorizing ...the concept of generational "wars" is bullshit marketing that fractures communities and makes it easier for us to be good little controlled consumers...

And?

@@BillyBob-oi9kl building your society based on capitalism is a patently stupid idea, unless you personally have capital. If you need an example of that, consider looking at the state of affairs in the world's capitalist countries.

@Zed vs. the non-capitalist countries? Capitalism isn't awesome, but it's better than anything else out there. Edit: spelling error

@@boneybaron2508 do yourself a favor and try to find literally one country that tried to do something other than capitalism that wasn't intensely harassed by the CIA for the entirety of its existence The CIA declassifies all of their information every couple of decades, you can just scroll through their official website and read up on the literal hundreds of instances of them spending millions of taxpayer dollars to undermine any serious attempts at building a society differently.

I feel the same way.I was born in 1958.I've always related to and felt more like Gen X.

As a current business owner, I refuse to hire any boomer. I loathe them but unfortunately they're the only ones with $ to pay for my services.

Finally someone else who feels the same way as I do. Too many boomers got entry-level jobs, as appropriate, but dam well never moved up and out of them making way for younger people. When I started my company, thanks to boomers not growing up, I tell people move up or move out. After 5 years I expect to see initiative.

My dad as I remember adviced me inna cafe ince with my older sister spreading working. She wasn't happy. It was supposed to be uplifting yet everything he was saying was unrealistic. I felt I wanted to say something but he didn't want to listen. It was an entanglement. I just agreed and kept the peace although it was shallow. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Honestly? I get my money and I cant save even my sister becouse external forces take it by "good reasons." Buying a house is next to zero chance. Meeting people in this woke culture, feminist misindry toxic trends of the general is just bull. I had dreams, good intentions, even people. They faded or slapped my hand. That is my own generation that are reactionarys and lables they love to lable and cut people inside where there is love in the people that theyhurt. And yet they are going through stuff we dont know. Boomers then were considered to give love, but what is the opposite this video saying. Prejudice disguised as trend, ironic stoicism fighting for justice? It's a complete cluster and twisted Mostly people look like robots today and it's sad becouse it's like they are wearing mask. The only the that I wanted to see a person that smiled, enjoying them on that beach and that was a warm heart feeling I saw if my generation, even me being apart of it that never had that chance or even them not realising that if they asked and they answer what they think of me then what actually is the case. Becouse no one wants to listen to other people. It's like they want to go too ther grave and press the autopilot to make it move until its drops.

That's pretty accurate unfortunately. ESPECIALLY career/job hunting advice.

@@BJ-zd2or and they give insolicated advice anyway 😅

Boomers deliberately give bad advice. They literally see young people, including their own kids, as competition

I always like to say that my parents (boomers) didn't give me anything, not even good advice.

Gen X and Gen Z have so much overlap, too. Growing up with constant economic crashes and increased disparity, terrorism and war, propaganda and fear mongering from Boomers, a massive pandemic with far-reaching social issues, definitions of gender and social roles rapidly shifting... and a whole lot of great music/pop culture to deal with the constant stresses.

Gen-X was mostly just Boomers-Lite

just watch a john hughes movie and youre all set 😅

"meh".

See my separate comment.

Gingrich doesn't get enough credit for the shit we're dealing with these days. He really screwed us.

@@dipperdandy The seeds of "zero compromise" politics, it began with Gingrich.

I think many immigrant Boomers can be selfish, just it's a different flavor.

My observations is that this is more of a white issue.

Honestly, generational discussions typically focus on white folks.

Sorry bro, but even my black and Mexican friends have the same exact complaints as I do about my parents. It's generational, not racial. I guess it was a good try though.

@@jessicavictoriacarrillo7254 Immigrant Boomers are definitely of the "I sacrificed everything for you, you ungrateful little brat!" type of self-centeredness. r/AsianParentStories is full of those kinds of stories. They refuse to consider that monetary success is not the same as actually showing affection and love for their children (and write off their children's natural needs for affection and support as just the wantings of "spoiled westernized brats").

Brave and courageous. Here's a cookie 🍪

Hope your grandchildren have the same energy with you.

ok boomer

same

BPD , boomer personality disorder 😂😂

To a degree I agree, but Millennials for instance have a more legitimate gripe about both the older (Boomers) and younger (GenZ) generations. I think given the austerity and hard road Millennials have had to undertake compared to Boomers, it made us Millennials initially more empathetic towards GenZ. GenZ however turned around and stabbed Millennials in the back by making fun of Millennials with little awareness about the world and history at large. I don't have a big issue with them being more socially aware, but there is something to Boomers complaints about younger generations not wanting to work anymore. I don't agree completely with that sentiment, but a few of my fellow Millennials have noted GenZ demand more at work, while the work ethic Millennials were taught to have had, diminished a bit with the next generation. It's a bit jarring because GenZ can to a degree get away with it today, now that Millennials are middle managers, but when Millennials entered the job market, it was "yes sir", or an attitude of "how high do you want me to jump" attitude Millennials had to endure when we graduated college during the Great Recession and unemployment was over 14% at many major cities. Boomers and older GenX were the middle managers then. Millennials were one of the most educated generations (statistically, not a personal bias), and yet the economic conditions in the U.S. and policies enacted by Boomers kind of screwed Millennials over. GenZ isn't facing the same job market as Millennials did when they started working in their young adult lives. Now Millennials are it feels like we're sandwiched between the still demanding Boomers/GenX and the more lackadaisical GenZ where we have to balance the absurd expectations of Boomers with the literally absent GenZ worker. I think Millennials need a break from the generations before and after us.

@@danmur2797 in my experience, the demands GenZ put forward to the employers are just what millenials started learning to do upwards of their 30s. To put it simply, the millenials never asked out of fear or impostor syndrome, and many are now angry with GenZ for not "going through what we went through", which is the same thing we Millenials are accusing Boomers of. I believe it's better to try to understand GenZ and learn from what many of them are doing well. Otherwise, well just be set in our ways, and in 10 to 20 years will end up where boomers are now, making the cycle repeat itself.

@@nikita3666 Oh I agree that it's a good thing GenZ is putting down clear lines they're not willing to cross for a job. Wish we Millennials would have had that option when we entered the job market in the 2000s and 2010s. Sadly though in my city--2nd largest metro in the U.S.--the housing bubble burst leading to the Great Recession 2008-2014. Unemployment in my metro area topped 14% then--for those under 30 yrs old it was closer to 25%. Even for college grads underemployment was endemic. We didn't have a choice because the boss could always replace us then with 100 more applicants behind us. So we put up with a lot. That I can let go though by joining GenZ in demanding better work life balance conditions and pay for all workers in the workplace (not just college educated professionals). However there's that saying about putting your money where your mouth is. So if I demanded better pay, better benefits like paid sick leave, vacation pto, longer maternity AND paternity pto, etc. all of which I still strongly agree with then I would try to be diligent as well. However now as I and my siblings and peers have become managers and consumers I can tell you first hand experience that getting some GenZ workers to do basic things is like pulling teeth. From undependable frequent call outs, putting strain on those who did show up to really awful customer service. I btw have been very considerate of my employees often siding with them over management where possible in the past. And I generally tip very well where most service workers who are often young work because I remember the struggle as an entry level worker and empathize. But some GenZ workers--and it's a trend--just don't show up when they need to figuratively and literally. I thought I was the only one that noticed until someone else close to my age in a supervisory position at a different company pointed it out as well. Also when I was younger working part time, I literally had to almost beg sometimes to work more some weeks so I could make my car payment and even though I was a hard worker, they still cut hours to all employees across the board. My sister today says that her part time employees 1) don't want extra shifts 2) call out often (more than 10 times in a month), or are 45 minutes or more late 6 times in less than 2 months. I totally cannot relate about being so lackadaisical when I struggled so much earlier practically having to almost grovel to work to have some money--only as recently as 2010 mind you, not 1980 or 1990. Still I do agree at least that employers need to treat their employees across the board much better, and if GenZ can bring them to the table I applaud them. They're just a mixed bag. I still dislike Boomer work culture btw.

@@danmur2797 Thanks so much for your perspective! It's very interesting to read, especially since I'm from another part of the world and even though the 2007/8 crisis hit us as well, it obviously wasn't as strong. I personally have had both good and bad experiences with GenZ where I work, like one person asked for a promotion very quickly without having any experience basically, while another is one of the most hard working and reliable colleagues I have. This is anecdotal evidence though of course :) Also I want to comment on GenZ, at least where I am and in other parts of the world like some European countries, are hard pressed to find work as well, especially straight out of college/uni. Still, again thanks for your perspective, I appreciate you sharing it!

The lack of community in the US prob didn't/doesn't help either. The nuclear family module, capitalism and how it overworks people, the workaholic hustle culture of boomers--all of it has lead to isolation and a lack of community, thus a lack of empathy and hyper-individualism and consumerism to fill the holes it can never actually fill.

I have hope Gen Alpha will have enough access to internet and digital tech that just looking up the statistics of who voted in what election to see where the real influence is. its not like how it was looking up things about life between the world wars, where you have to go thru and read all the newspapers from the times and collect the data first hand yourself, or hope some other historian already did some of that work

What empathy should I have for boomers? They signed permanent trade with China sending all manufacturing over seas, hoarded everything physically and mentally.... F them, seriously. btw, I did it with no help from parents - millennial business owner/Iraq veteran. do they think either of these are nobel? nope, I should go work for a company boomer for 12/hr they believe.

Omg 😳

Dude... their inability to accept accountability and unwillingness to be wrong has been their drive since forever. They live in a constant state of saying fuck you to their kids and grandkids.

I think this whole notion of “young liberal, old conservative” is a unique narrative to a certain set of boomers. Most people don’t pick an ideology based on their 401k but because they have genuinely held ideological beliefs.

I’m with you except I’m from the previous generation, the Silent Generation who did protest the War in Vietnam, for women’s rights. I was inspired by JFK who became president when I was a senior in high school.

@@rachelgarber1423 That was such an explosive time to be young. I bet his assassination was devastating for you. I was in first grade when he was killed and the principal’s voice came over the brown speaker box in the classroom to tell us the president was dead. My teacher cried. That was awful. So I raised my hand and tried to comfort her and said we should all be sad if we’re Democrats or if we’re Republicans. Because I knew my parents were Republicans (bah). But that just made her cry more and give me a big hug.

Sadly, I’m a black woman from the tail end of GenX. I started college, then decided to go to work after a semester. After a couple of recessions, I realized I would never get ahead because I would continue to be considered uneducated even though I took AP/IB classes in high school. Now, I have much more debt than many contemporaries because I returned to college in 2008, at the height of our last recession. I am going to do all I can so my daughter doesn’t need to take out loans for an education.

@@merrytunes8697 btw, sorry you had to go through all that. But hey, at least 2008 was a better time for going back to college than for looking for a job!

@@jbtechcon7434 thank you! Very true!

I honestly think you guys are in the best position. All the other gens seem to forget you guys exist, so these generation squabbles don't touch you. Take that as a win. ;-)

Gen X got shit on with the economy and uncertainty of the Cold War. They grew up during the OPEC oil embargo, but they were able to get jobs in the tech sector, which paid a lot of money. That blew up with the Dot Com Bubble, so Gen Xers who didn't get in right away were left out. "Oh, I'll get a degree in web design and _then_ I'll travel to Silicone Valley. I'll get one of those six figure jobs because I'll have better qualifications than people who are there right now that may not have even graduated from high school!" was the thinking. But by the time they finished with their degree, it was worthless, especially as sites like Facebook and Google made their skills obsolete. As if that wasn't enough, they were finally managing to get into careers so they could start families before "lol whoops we destroyed the housing market in the worst economic crisis since the Depression." All of this was done with the threat of the US or USSR losing their shit and deciding to wipe out human civilization, followed by a group of religious radicals blowing up multiple skyscrapers in a single day. No wonder Gen X is the slacker generation and just doesn't give a fuck lmao...their whole lives have been a mix of Sisyphus and Kafka. 😭🤣

Except he was born in 1930, he was part of so-called the Silent Generation 1928-1945

Yeah, Homer and Marge are Boomers. Abe loved through the depressions, was a WWII vet, and wore an onion on his belt

Homer is the boomer.

@@foxdragoon84 Totally, and it fits. He can afford a 2-car garage home, support 2 kids and a stay-at-home wife on his one salary despite not being hardworking or exceptional in any way.

"Gran Torino" is probably the movie you are thinking of.

Obama is on the cusp of Boomer/GenX. Born 1961. Generation Jones I guess (that's a thing). I was thinking the same thing. But, for the most part Gen X has been kind of ignored in the generation conversation. Suits me fine although it's annoying when we get grouped with Boomers/Millennials

Obama is a baby boomer born 1961 he was just young when he ran for president.

Obama is a boomer born a week before my mother, 1961

Probably Gen X but he was a boomer at heart

He’s part of the Baby Boom.

I honestly think it's mostly just gaslighting. It's just an act, a way to be dismissive and condescending.

They used too many illegal substances.

You're so right.

Buzzfeed -- the same place that tried to make "cheugy" a thing a while back -- has now posted several of their lists this week that are starting to conflate Boomers with Gen X, and suggest that Gen X = MAGA Trumpers. No. Absolutely not. Not even close.

Your dad isn't a baby boomer though. Isn't he part of the silent generation?

@@9395gb I know he's not a boomer. I was speaking more generally in terms of living alongside an older generation and how that can impact both sides (for better or worse).

My Dad's in his early 80's as well, and I feel the same. He really tries to grow and adapt and though we sometimes debate each other on certain issues, I've never felt like he's condescending to my generation (Gen X) or younger generations. Maybe that's because he was a teacher for so long, so he was coming in contact with the way younger people thought all the time. Now he's got his grandkids.

@@Erica-en2qz That “coming into contact“ aspect is crucial. I work in a public library system, and fairly often we run into customers - usually older people - who have substantial difficulty with technological concepts that younger generations take for granted. In some cases there are fully legitimate reasons for that difficulty (financial constraints limiting personal access to computers, newly arrived immigrants with bigger issues to deal with, serious health problems limiting time spent on learning/activities, ect…), but when there seems to be no real barrier to them gaining that knowledge besides the oft-repeated excuse of “I’m this-many-years-old”, our patience only goes so far. Sounds kind of harsh, I admit, but when you hear it repeatedly week after week, it throws the digital divide into sharper focus without always offering real solutions. It’s frustrating for everyone.

The older baby boomers were born 1946-1954 so they would have been teens and early 20’s in the 60’s. The younger boomers were born 1955-1964 so yea they would have been too young.

Ok boomer

Likely won't as it's not "pop" culture but maybe if we can get them to somehow link it to narratives of Iranian women on-screen or something? Thinking of y'all. Keep fighting I know that feels like a stupid thing to say as an American we put you in this shit decades ago but don't stop fighting please.

Probably not a good idea

@@mewesquirrel6720 Well I like to know the reason :)

@@fxxzan because this is an American channel and getting involved would be dangerous.

Subjects like that aren't really what this channel is about.

Always so enlightening on issues you had probably dismissed in the past. It's a beautiful channel.

Not really, you might just be a fanatic if you can’t find any personal narratives in their takes.

Yeah, you're right, I was arguing about how we were talking about how we were generalizing generations with an understanding that goes beyond human logic, especially when it comes to having children (while it was true that compared to today, you could be ab;e to have children at a younger age, that was simply not always the case, as there were plenty of Bommers and even silents who actually delayed having children until they felt they were financially secure enough, and many were even attending college). Also, quite funny enough, many Silents had a baby boomer as just their sibling rather than a child, as the former was born at a time when birth rates in the countries most likely to feel its effect (the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), fell to an all-time low because families were unable to afford caring for children and the war had caused many men to leave for long periods of time. This means that if they didn't manage to wait for so long as to only wound up having one child and wanted to have more, we wound up having cases where many baby booms were five, six, seven, or even a decade younger than their siblings, and any generational conflicts between the two, in this case, was less parent-child conflicts and more of a sibling rivalry, hence another possible reason for demonizing baby boomers (it could have been the leftovers of what was apparently a sibling rivalry, as you can't be able to demonize your child, but you could with a sibling).

Yeah, because living in times of civil rights unrest, a brutal war raging halfway across the world that was killing young Americans men and boys by the hundreds every day and violent, bloody riots breaking out in the streets of just about every major city was so easy.

Woke is a totally meaningless catchall used by people who are afraid to use people's sexualities and race as insults anymore.

@@jordanloux3883 exactly, like hippy it could imply certain attitudes, but really it means how the younger generation differs, so it has become an insulting way to say young as well

You ve never lived under the power of anyone elaez so how you would you know if any other gen is better or worse

What is that?

@@sarahverissimo4656 The Greatest Generation refers to people who were of age during WW2, the Silent Generation were children and thus technically too old to be Boomers. Given that both are almost dead by now, It would make sense to talk about them soon

Yeah except that Boomers where the first generation (statistically speaking) to leave a worse world for their children than the one they enjoyed…

Both

So many of our Boomer parents got married as teens/early 20s and had Gen X. They they bailed on us and had second and third millennial families. This is yet another one of the stupid problems with pitting generations against each other: we're each other's siblings. We have more in common than not.

It’s both but I think two generations difference is the standard. Of course there are plenty of boomers who had Gen X and Gen Z kids as well.

@@mastersnet18 you're right I wasn't thinking. It's cos I was born 1980 and am just gen x. So it confused me as to why until I remembered 1981 and up are considered millennials, thinking it was 2000 and up.

@@DS-uh6ss I think it comes from lack of memory as to what we all was like as teenagers and a bit a jealousy and hypocrisy. The boomer generation invented the teenager as almost the sub culture it is today. Its ironic they don't get along.

This is an interesting angle, an "International" analysis would have to look deeper than reflections on pop culture. Imagine this question, and really let it set in: When did our elders stop being a source of wisdom? I think the answer is in the internet age. The generation that repeated to me " You can't believe what you see on TV" now gets their "news" from FOX. As a child of the internet I grew up without that elder wisdom, it's normal for me and I never knew it to miss it. The boomers actually experienced the loss and it broke them. Worldwide they've embraced misinformation and ignorance .

@@klake3580 Hippies were from the Baby Boomer generation. Then they went on to become Yuppies. 😞

@@klake3580 Baby Boomers: 1946-1964. So a good combination of both. Early boomers would've been 19 in '63.

Yes the vid was a bit too general and vague man.

We're definitely trying to do more with less, that's for sure.

That's the question. I'm seeing the divide already. On one hand I see rich silicon valley parents doing everyone to educate their children on CRT, etc. On the other I know people already very much aligned with boomer mentality even if they don't fit the traditional boomer demographic (they're all LGBT couples, childfree). It's interesting. Because millennials are now all 27-40 it seems the die are mostly cast for what we will be and how we will raise our children/nieces/nephews etc. I sincerely hope we don't make the same mistakes or let ourselves become the same way. My small hope is seeing my mother, a Boomer as she gets older attempting to change to accept me as her daughter coming out and knowing it's hard for her but if she can change later in life it's possible.

The only difference is when baby boomers were young, it was all about them coming together to create positive change by protesting and advocating for human and environmental rights. Now it's all about them being used as scapegoats for millenials to pin all the world's problems on.