Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster - Helen Andrews
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With two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are their children’s favorite punching bag.
But is the hatred justified?
Is the destruction left in their wake their fault or simply the luck of the generational draw?
In ‘Boomers’, essayist Helen Andrews addresses the Boomer legacy with scrupulous fairness and biting wit.
Following the model of Lytton Strachey’s ‘Eminent Victorians’, she profiles six of the Boomers’ brightest and best.
She shows how Steve Jobs tried to liberate everyone’s inner rebel but unleashed our stultifying digital world of social media and the gig economy.
How Aaron Sorkin played pied piper to a generation of idealistic wonks.
How Camille Paglia corrupted academia while trying to save it.
How Jeffrey Sachs, Al Sharpton, and Sonya Sotomayor wanted to empower the oppressed but ended up empowering new oppressors.
Ranging far beyond the usual Beatles and Bill Clinton clichés, Andrews shows how these six Boomers’ effect on the world has been tragically and often ironically contrary to their intentions.
She reveals the essence of Boomerness: they tried to liberate us, and instead of freedom they left behind chaos.
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This post has 19 comments with rating of 5/5
May 11th, 2021
Helen Andrews, senior editor at “The American Conservative Magazine”, talked about her book, Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster, in which she argued that the baby boom generation has left subsequent generations, especially millennials, worse off.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?507571-1/qa-helen-andrews
May 11th, 2021
Pure Drivel.
May 11th, 2021
Look around, hits the truth mark.
May 11th, 2021
Yup. First generation to pull the social support ladder up after them instead of giving their kids a better future.
May 11th, 2021
Lytton Strachey - Eminent Victorians (1918)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2447
May 11th, 2021
Im tempted to give this a try purely because of the astonishingly terrible cover.
May 11th, 2021
Man thats a lot of forehead.
May 11th, 2021
Ok boomer. Don’t be pass remarkable. Highbrow by nature.
May 11th, 2021
@simonkage
I forgot to mention this is not the original cover (the original cover pic included, I did not like it so I included pic from C-SPAN video instead).
May 11th, 2021
If she got really surprised she’d be bald… Poor useless millennials, as a GenXer we wait for those who came before to die, and those that came after to realize life sux and to stop whining about every damn thing as it’s such a waste of energy…
May 11th, 2021
That’s a Nassty outlook, Bob. Carrion eaters & scavengers wait for peeps 2 die.
It’s carrion comfort to your “loved ones” to have you hovering & lurking around when they get the slightest sniffles.
May 11th, 2021
another book on the same subject:
OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind - Jill Filipovic
https://audiobookbay.lu/audio-books/ok-boomer-lets-talk-how-my-generation-got-left-behind-jill-filipovic
May 12th, 2021
Looks interesting- thanks.
May 12th, 2021
Generational conflict is just another divide and rule tactic, a distraction from what should be our common target: the oligarchic technocracy.
May 12th, 2021
@BobdeNassty Damn I wish I was a as cool as you. Sadly not all of us can be Edgelord’s
May 12th, 2021
Hey Leechy, that’s the difference between an adult and just a lad… Caesar, oh wise articulate one, you only need worry if I’m lurking with my smothering pillow in hand…
May 12th, 2021
Wise enough not to call Bob if I get the dreaded lurgy.
May 19th, 2021
7 hours of whining.
July 11th, 2021
Why not highlight Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Larry Kudlow, Tom Delay, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, John Roberts, Joel Osteen, Franklin Graham, or Roger Ailes, Jim Bakker, Newt Gingrich, Mitch McConnell, Dick Armey, Dick Cheney, and Arthur Laffer (all Boomer enablers). The fraud, damage, and catastrophe they’ve caused created a wake that would capsize the Titanic.
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