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2007-07-21 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Frank G 2007-07-21 17:17|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 the Sub-Headline was "Better than the Boomers". I'll let you make your own opinion. I was born in '59. Guess that makes me a "tail-boomer"? Er...no.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-07-21 17:25|| 2007-07-21 17:25|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder how this author reconciles the fact that so many Baby Boomers managed to raise children who have somehow magically responded to their country's calling. If there was one thing that Baby Boomers did transmit and transmitted well it was literacy. One could easily say that their offspring had the best set of morals to rebel against but it probably goes well beyond that.

An ability to read opens a multitude of doors into every other corridor of thought that the printed page can offer. Someone like myself who was brought to anti-war marches all through childhood can nonetheless still pick up a volume of Ayn Rand and invoke personal change irrespective of any and all upbringing. I'm relieved to report that I was a devout capitalist long before reading Rand's "Capitalism, The Unknown Ideal".

In between the Baby Boomers and this "9-11 Generation" there was the "Television Era". Quite possiblymore than anything elseit is television's supplanting of the written word that has served to cripple independent thought and critical analysis. For now, we'll disregard the additional paralytic effect of video games.

Generations of Americans are now habituated to having their information predigested for them like meals disgorged by parent animals. Not only has this served to inhibit analytical thinking but it also has allowed the wedge of Mainstream Media's anti-American bias to intrude uponwhat is often no longerany sort of informed opinion.

As is so often the case these days, we now find thatmuch like the Baby Boomer's predecessors' introduction of the automobilethe Internet's advent has stimulated a paradigm shift of truly monumental proportions. It is no small coincidence that the Baby Boomers' capacity for literacy has continued to serve future generations so well. One merely need consider how you who now read these words are not staringinsteadat a photomontage lifted from Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451".

The Baby Boom most likely has access to what was America's height of educational quality. While the American public education system's consequent decline is nothing short of criminal, never underestimate the value of what went before. It sowed the seeds of awareness that may well prove this nation's saving grace in its time of peril.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-21 21:02|| 2007-07-21 21:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Having been born in 1945 --- and I have no children, but I'm of the generation of the Baby Boomers. This generation that is currently in the military, are not Baby Boomer's children, they are grandchildren of Baby Boomers.

Lots of the Baby Boomer women, left the 60's and moved into the next stage we faced, the age of Feminism... Got to get ahead. Had to break the glass ceiling.

But there were still the kids to content with. So, searching to be the SuperWoman of an incredible career and an incredible Mom, kids got stashed with grandparents... the grandparents were the Greatest Generation.

No good SuperWoman would ever tell you, but it wasn't she raising the kids, the grandparents could take lots of responsibility for that. The time that Mom and Dad took with the kids, got to be known as "quality time."

Hence, this generation of our military folks, and others like BA that we are currently reading, were raised by parents who were greatly influenced by their grandparents.... those of the Greatest Generation.

I've seen it....

It's not the children of the Baby Boomers that is answering the phone. It's their grandchildren. Sadly, it is the Baby Boomers that are in Congress....

Now, I'm back to Harry Potter -- almost attached the UPS guy today when he finally rang my doorbell, with that coveted box in hand.

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2007-07-21 22:07|| 2007-07-21 22:07|| Front Page Top

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