There are a lot of them. I've got a couple of Boomer parents who just can't accept that the society they inherited, the one they spent their entire working lives contributing to, was a transient thing, a brief interlude of peace and prosperity in between reversion to the reality of human nature, and that it's well and truly over now.
People keep their heads firmly buried in the sand rather than acknowledge that the governments and institutions they've spent their lives trusting have been politicized beyond recognition and corrupted beyond salvaging.
My parents ignored me for my entire school career as I tried to tell them what was wrong.
As I grew up I started to think that maybe the problem was my inability to articulate the problem. But no, the more articulate I became, the less coherent they became, until they completely degraded into nonsense.
The Boomers didn't just let this happen, they complied to maintain their high standard of living. I have little to no sympathy for all the fools who thought their money would care for them in their old age, who died in retirement homes due to negligence from people who aren't even related to them.
There are a lot of them. I've got a couple of Boomer parents who just can't accept that the society they inherited, the one they spent their entire working lives contributing to, was a transient thing, a brief interlude of peace and prosperity in between reversion to the reality of human nature, and that it's well and truly over now.
People keep their heads firmly buried in the sand rather than acknowledge that the governments and institutions they've spent their lives trusting have been politicized beyond recognition and corrupted beyond salvaging.
My parents ignored me for my entire school career as I tried to tell them what was wrong.
As I grew up I started to think that maybe the problem was my inability to articulate the problem. But no, the more articulate I became, the less coherent they became, until they completely degraded into nonsense.
The Boomers didn't just let this happen, they complied to maintain their high standard of living. I have little to no sympathy for all the fools who thought their money would care for them in their old age, who died in retirement homes due to negligence from people who aren't even related to them.
So true. I see this with my parents, who still think it is the 1950s.