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World Events Have Influenced Boomers - Baby Boomers News Story - WDIV Detroit
News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Jan 4, 2009 9:15 PM EST
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Authors often write about the impact baby boomers have on the larger society. For example, boomers have promoted more self-reliance or a more selfish outlook, depending on the prism one chooses to look through.
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These people are FOS. I'm one of the Boomers who's right in the middle of the "early boomers" so I can tell you from a first-hand perspective what they did wrong. They based their evaluation of what influences we were subject to and how those influences affected and shaped us - by what the media covered at the time and the slant that they put on things. If the media thought something was huge, then these "professors" think it was huge on an individual basis. Therefore, whatever was in the media must have influenced us and therefore shaped our personalities.
BS.
Vietnam is a great example. Compared to the numbers of people who protested VN, the number of people who were not affected by it is huge. There were over 5 million of us who went there - but I'd venture a guess that there weren't anywhere near that many who protested, and then you have the people who did neither. (I went to college during part of VN and out of about 5,000 students on our campus, there were maybe 50 or 100 anti-war protestors, but it was on the news every night.) As a modern-day example, look at the Iraq war. See how many people are actually fighting it, and how many are protesting it, and outside of as a topic of conversation, it doesn't affect the rest of us at all.
They said we are "experimental" because a few morons smoked pot, dropped acid, and screwed up their brains with drugs. Again - the VAST majority of us did none of that.
If they want to do a study on Boomers, I'd suggest they haul their fat butts out from behind their tenured desks and do a REAL study... but that requires work so I guess that's just too much to hope for.
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