THE FAILED GENERATION

As this week has seemed to be a retrospective of the sixties with the remembrance of Dr. King bringing about a broader discussion of where America is compared to that era. The time has come to call out the baby boomers as a group for what they were and are today.

This generation of American's was born after ww2 when a group of the greatest generation of American's came back from the war of wars. These heroes of ww2 came back with the dreams of building a better life for a new family and to live in peace. They worked as hard at this as they had in defeating the Japanese and Germans. As a result the golden era of the fifties produced a generation of young people born to a higher standard of living than had ever been seen in this country. They were treated to more stable food supply and better living enviroments than any generation before. The parents(ww2 heroes) had indeed accomplished the great American dream of providing more than they were provided in their youth. So what does this generation that has been born into this do? Do they use the ability to think about the continued social problems in the country and work to gain a workable solution? Do they use the freedom from poverty given to them by their parents to work harder at educating themselves in such a way as to move the American dream into more inaccesable parts of society? Do they create new ways to enrich themselves? Do they development new ways to get people jobs and raise the standard of living for the whole of America?
NO!!!!! WHAT THEY DID WAS: TUNE IN, TURN ON, AND DROP OUT.
They became a generation that did nothing but complain about everything without working towards a truly universal American experience. They spent all their time worrying only about themselves. Yeah they might have participated in peace demonstrations and the like but it was more in an effort to be around better drugs and girls than any other. They protested the things they didn't like, they didn't try to work within the system to try and change things because that would have required a little more effort than getting high and shouting. They didn't accomplish anything they tried but they didn't care because that wasn't the goal. The goal was to maintain this SanFrancisco spirit of counter-culture and solving these problems would mean nothing left to protest.
The more I write about this generation the more obvious their selfishness becomes. This generation has failed in every way but the worst way is the way they failed their parents. Now I am not saying that it is a child's duty to make their parents proud but one would think that of all the sacrifice the generation of the fourties had poured into America the most appreciative would be their own children. But alas this is the group that least appreciated it because they were to selfish to even recognize what had been handed to them on a silver platter. They felt as though they were entitled to it without recognizing the sacrifice given.
Flash forward 40 years and look at what we have today. They are the politicians who complain about everything. The Dems are the repository of flower power and they can not help but act the same way they acted fourty years ago. They don't want to solve problems because that makes them obsolete. They shout down opposition voices today just like they shouted down pro-war students of the vietnam era. They are still the most selfsish of generations this nation has ever produced.

Now it is time for me to say one final thing and understand when I say this that I know that not all of this generation was those from above. But most were. The best thing is that the first of this generation is now reaching retirement, and although I am sure their selfishness and sense of entitlement will manifest itself in the bankruptcy of social security, the upside is, this generation will soon die out and maybe, just maybe we can finally remove their blight on America and truly move forward towards a universal American dream. Without the complaining for the sake of complaining maybe we can begin to solve these fourty year old problems that this generation of the sixties has failed to do.

More Later......