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I heard somewhere that in response to "Okay boomer", some boomers were retaliating with "Okay renter" because younger generations would never be able to afford a house. I don't think boomers realize that is a self inflicting insult.
It's the perfect boomer response, they can't help but be the meme.
They are called the "me" generation for a reason. They don't defend that they are selfish. It's a sense of entitlement and think it's normal behavior. The bad boss in Office Space is a meme for a reason. (this movie, The Matrix and Fight Club were a response to those boomer values of idol worshipping evil corpos that dehumanise people) Future generations will get revenge pissing on their graves to relieve the anger from abuse from sociopaths. If you want to stop suffering you got to promise yourself that you don't become the Darth Vader character the Boomers aspire to be.
They love rubbing salt in the wounds they inflicted
@@legit.jacquie how do we stop them? They are currently destroying pop culture with Woke crap. A lot of these boomers suffer from NPD.
Millennial: *complains about something he had no control over* Boomer: "You Millennials need to learn to take responsibility for your actions! Now let me tell you how my parents ruined my life.
If there’s an exact opposite of planting trees whose shade you will never sit in, that’s what baby boomers have been doing for sixty years.
They cut down the trees their parents planted to hold Burning Man, then planted weed in place of the fruit groves.
They plant those flowers that open after some decades, only to reveal a putrid smell.
They cut down the trees to sell the lumber.
Here so true! They burnt every tree and heated themselves alone with the flames.
Has anyone else noticed how many trees we're losing over the past few decades? The two properties I lived the most of my life on growing up had about 70% more trees, bushes, and hedges before we moved out.
Baby Boomers really took advantage of the greatest era in human history and completely squandered any of that hope for their grandchildren and onwards.
They took advantage of living in the era of autumn. Autumn is the harvest season. When the work of the past is most obviously in full fruit. It requires the least effort for the most gain. They over feasted in their autumn, and now they are blaming the coming of winter on the children who will starve.
I think “millennials” are so obsessed with nostalgia because they remember a world that literally was better in almost every way but are politically programmed to think that the past was horrible and now is better and the future will be perfect. This causes extreme cognitive dissonance.
I think nostalgia has a hard divide around 1990. If you were born before that, you're afflicted by nostalgia because things indeed were better. Born after that you don't really have a clear memory of things being better. For most millennials every year is year is zero.
@@DVSPress Was born in 1992, and I still remember a better time. 2008 was really when things dramatically changed for the worse and never got better. By the time I got my GED in 2011, I couldn't get a full time doing anything. I had to work as a part time dishwasher making 700 a month while paying 500 in rent, and 150 for food. I refused to go into massive debt for college and the Army wouldn't even take you at the time if you had a GED. Eventually I was able to enlist and that improved my life drastically, but things never really got better in the general economy.
@@Harvest133 2008 was horrible and nobody want so talk about it. Every place I gigged at closed. But the culture was so different pre-9/11. It really was a different world.
@@DVSPress I do have a vague recollection of the pre-9/11 world. The sense of... how to explain this... world peace? I didn't know the phrase at the time, but the idea of The End of History. Things definitely changed a lot after 9/11. That idea of The End of History started to die. 2008 just cemented to me that America wasn't the country promised to me in the culture, is all, I guess.
@@a.wadderphiltyr1559 I had three half siblings. My parents divorced when I was 8 months old because my mother was psychologically unstable and my dad was an abusive drunk. I have two half-siblings from my dad's first marriage; one from when my mother got knocked up by a narcissistic loser who made a point to psychologically torment me, a 7 year old all the way until I turned 13 and went to live with my dad which really wasn't much better. Just a different kind of shitty. I eventually moved out on my own with a few hundred dollars and lived in my car for a few months at 17 after dad pulled his M1911 on me in a drunken fit. Despite the terrible homelife I had, it doesn't take much to realized society at large was drastically better at that time. I had friends that had two parents and healthy relationships I got to experience a sample of what life was like.
Boomer generation’s anthem is John Lennon’s ‘Imagine.’ Turned the world to hell, and in their hubris think it’s everyone else’s fault it’s not a heaven.
I've always thought it's weird how the boomers worship the Beatles like they're some sort of religion.
Genuinely one of the most sickening and evil songs ever made.
And he was a pretty awful person too.
@electricpizza 5774 they worship muh Woodstock too...
Imagine a world with no possessions. Says the man who owned multiple mansions.
"I'm not a vampire." That's what a vampire would say 😏
I, too, notice a lack of crosses, mirrors, and garlic.
He's definitely a vampire. Have you ever seen him record a video outside during the daylight hours? Didn't think so.
Boomers aren't vampires. Vampires are required for permission before they enter your home. Boomers would just waltz in.
@@pheonixshamanStu isn't a boomer. I did invite him into my house when he did that video about Force Awakens and he never left though...
@@pheonixshaman What is it with boomers and just walking in without knocking? Every one I know does it and it strikes me as crazy. Growing up we would go to visit friends, and I would get to the door first, knock politely and wait to be let in, and my parents would walk past and just open the door like it was their house.
You really did softball Boomers here... the Sexual Revolution and it's aftermath effect on the future generations could have gotten a rant that would make Räz0rfist blush.
The first video was even gentler and I had people calling me Hitler.
@@DVSPress Dang... and yet they've got the chutzpah to call the younger generations, "Snowflakes?" That's nuts.
"Ave" Stewart 🖐️
Setting aside social polices boomers pushed that have made our society low trust (as many of those are controversial) the economic policies the boomers pushed (and admit they pushed) are awful at even a glance, and most people don't even know half of them. Here are the ones I can think of and roughly when they were passed. 1. Going off the gold standard (tbf to boomers the oldest would have been 25 when this was passed) in 1971. 2. Elimination of usury laws (1980). 3. Elimination of the ability to apprentice to get certifications in fields that require a degree nowadays (1980s). 4. Weakening of anti trust laws in the 1980s. Every big box store was only a franchise or a regional player before this occurred (WalMart, Lowes, etc were not national chains before the 80s). 5. Removal of capital flight laws (1980s). 6. Removal of the ability to get student loans forgiven in bankruptcy (1980s-90s). 7. Granting amnesty to illegals, increasing the quotas for immigration, and expanding it to unskilled labor (1980s). 8. Removing laws that prevented advertising to children (hence why so many millennials are consoomers)(1980s). 9. The H1B Visa system (1990s-2002). 10. Removal of laws that prevented people from paying for a mortgage with money generated from rent (1980s). 11. Credit scoring systems (1991 or 92). 12. Removal of laws preventing dual citizens from running for political office (1990s).
My only rebut regarding the gold standard was that we actually went off in the 1930s when FDR outlawed owning gold. At that point the currency was fully fiat with all cash supplies controlled by the Fed, but they claimed the dollar was backed by gold because it made people feel secure. The Nixon admin just admitted we had been off the standard for 4 decades. You can't have a gold standard if the currency is not exchangeable for physical gold.
@@DVSPress I never knew that occurred, and I agree with your assessment.
Some of the most heinous ones seem to have passed under Regan/Bush
Damn. Probably the best list I've seen so far. I learned some things here. Thank you
Gen Xer here. I've had a distaste for the Boomer's since the 70's. When I think of the Boomer generation, back THEN, I think of hubris, collectivism, and hypocrisy. They seemed to talk FOREVER about how great their generation was and how much social change they did, yada, yada, yada... but never took responsibility for the collateral damage of their social changes. Now that they're old, they still believe their echo chamber of how great they were... they're still arrogant and entitled... just grumpier. I also blame them for disco and light rock. Had to listen to that crap every day on the bus to school. That's probably the biggest reason why I don't care for Boomers.
Millennial here. I found a bunch of boomer newspaper comics from the early 80s, and it was mind blowing. Because it was the exact same sort of "I hate my wife" and "father I cannot click the book" jokes about younger people that they make today. I used to think that style of humor was a product of being old. But no, boomers were like this even when they were in their 30s and 40s.
Boomer humor has always struck me as very ugly. Every bit seems to be about hating your wife or regretting having kids. Think of Married with Children or the Simpsons. Even clean comedians from the boomer era can't help but make jokes about how much they hate having a wife and kids. And the dark part is that comedy only works when it points to some kind of truth or reality.
@@DVSPress Think of all the boomer sitcoms from the 80s and 90s. Marital conflict is a key source of comedy and "sleeping on the couch" became a punchline
You had me until the diss at Disco and light rock. The Bee gees, Donna summer, Yvonne Elliman, The Carpenters, that music was great. When GenX turned to nihilistic discordant Grunge in the early nineties when I had just entered my teens, IN 1990, what a dark time that was for music. I hate to say this but thank God Pearl Jam decided to stop being commercial and never released videos for their Vs album and that Kurt cobain.... well let's just say I think the Foo Fighters were much better for music than Nirvana. From the Ashes of grunge came alternative which wasn't a genre, that music that didn't always fall under one category. The wonderful Heyday of britpop, female rockers the pinnacle of rap, with Biggie and Tupac, which ended when he died. And I don't care what anyone thinks, I loved, techno, house music and freestyle. The NYC club scene in the 90s was incredible. But unfortunately generation x was not large or or influential enough , MTV died, and autotune made any skinny hot girl singer. The generation born in the 15-20 years after world war II ended were entitled, narcissistic, and worse. But their music was the jam
@@glurgbarble7268 I never thought of humor as generational. Just good or bad. I can remember good and bad comedies in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Not sure I ever noticed a common thread. Yes, dysfunctional family humor started in the late 80s, but to be fair that might be just as much Gen X's fault. We are the "latchkey" generation after all.
The reason older millennials and Gen Xers are so nostalgic is because of the continual cultural degradation.
Yes but they react to it in unhealthy ways, such as collecting toys they don't play with and watching movies they hate. This is because it was the only thing that gave them pleasure and meaning while their parents ignored them (just generally). Star Wars will never be good again. We have to move forward from that and make better things, find real meaning.
Weirdly I don't own any nostalgic knick knacks and I'm a gen xer. Strangely I feel Nostalgia for things that never occurred in my lifetime.
@@kommandantvhs4994my parents grew up with all that stuff so I was able to get into it without feeling any of the nostalgia. I was young when the prequels came out but I don’t even remember those very well. The MCU though is the nostalgia for 90s and 2000s kids. That’s going to hit just as hard as Star Wars did for people in a few decades. I just BARELY escaped the trap that things like Star Wars and Star Trek are now. They’re nostalgia coffins. Newer generations will have the benefit and ability of looking back at past things and picking out the good parts instead of their favorite things getting ruined by corporate greed and incompetence
@@DVSPress The part of their parents ignoring them is the big part, imo. My father was a teacher, and my mother was a stay at home mother, and my father spent a lot of time with us even though he was older when we were born, and my mother spent a lot of time with us as well. My parents were never divorced, and unlike most of my hs counterparts, I never had a consoomer mindset, which makes me wonder if the attention my parents gave me prevented me from making brands a part of the zeitgiest that makes up my sense of identity.
@DVSPress I agree that many do this. I for one do believe I keep my nostalgia in check.
George Carlin was right about the boomers and he said it in 1996. "Whiney, narcissistic, self-indulgent people, with a simple philosophy: 'gimme-it it’s mine'! "
They went from "love is all you need" to "whoever has the most toys in the end, wins"
He ought to know, he was one of them. And that description describes himself quite well. Even when boomer criticize eachother it's still projection
@@marvalice3455 He was born in the 1930s, that isn't boomer lol
As a latchkey Gen Xer, my parents and teachers were from the Silent Generation. My experience with the Boomers is that they're terminally unable to understand any perspective but their own. "Everyone else is wrong" got baked into them somehow, and they'll be stuck there till the end.
Yep, and this "it's never my fault" mentality is the number one trait of all narcissists, boomers were the most narcissistic generation.
Generational wealth? Dynasty building? pffft Your problem is you haven’t knocked on the doors of enough employers, resume in hand.
I think in discussions with boomers the thing I notice in general, and it's always refreshing when a boomer doesn't do this, is to have a simple solution for everything and these simple solutions to problems that are generally not so simple. Then believe with an unreserved confidence that their solution is THE solution, as if to affirm their own view of the world. It's incredible to witness.
You are one of the few content creators where I can like the video before watching it. It's not about if I agree or not. Your method of presentation is consistently thought compelling and well articulated.
My baby boomer father committed suicide and left none of the money to me or my brothers. He instead donated it to a boys ranch with a history of sexual assault allegations.
Yikes
I'm really sorry.
Jackie Chan, born in 54, stipulated that all of his ~400 million $ fortune go to charity "so his son will make his own money", and the fatality was "if he's capable, he'll get his own. If he's not, he'll just be wasting mine"
You are absolutley right Dave! Even boomer generation from countries outside of US have much much higher rates of sociopathy... current generations are more messed up/lost, but baby boomers were definitely more purposeful in choosing selfish and self indulgence at every turn when it was so much easier in their time period to choose better
And can you really blame them? They probably grew up poor because of the Great Depression and WWII.
@@superjlk_9538 haha, are u a boomer ?
@@carmencampeanu7810 no but I think it’s pretty easy to understand why they were selfish. Life sucked before and then suddenly they were some of the richest people in the world
@@superjlk_9538- The Boomer childhoods were significantly better than their parents. They didn't grow up in a Depression
@@carmencampeanu7810 honestly I wish I was. My life would have been a lot better 😂
People don't understand group stats anymore. "But I know someone who isn't like that!" It's alarming how much discourse has degenerated. And regarding God letting the Israelites wander the desert, I often feel that way about myself, like I'm being punished by God. Born juuust late enough to miss the golden age. Relationships imploded just as I was graduating high school. Housing market went crazy as soon as I graduated college. Job market dominated by AI and globalization as I'm forming my career. I'll never have kids, never own anything, never find love. Meanwhile, Boomers just got a job in town cutting hair, got married, bought a house, and had kids, all at like 20 years old lmao. So if anyone is being judged or punished here, it's not the Boomers, it's me. I do think there will be a huge crash catalyzed by the WFH bubble popping, leading to housing crash, etc, that will lead to people fleeing the United States. And in 50-100 years, maybe another Golden Age will happen. But the few generations born after the Boomers will never get to experience it. Worst time in history to be alive. People cope and say "This is the most free, technologically advanced time to be alive!" Don't care. Give me a life in the 1400s where I marry the neighbor's daughter in my village of 50 people, make swords, and die in a war at 30 years old. At least my life will have had more meaning.
Im in the same boat as you man. I hope theres a way out of this soon. Id rather die fighting this hellhole and the boomers that prop it up instead of living like this
The #1 thing that needs to be fixed is entry level jobs. Tone down globalism and outsourcing of jobs. You got to stop hurting the kids, or else those kids will get angry enough to hurt you right back.
Outsourcing is not the problem. I live in Brazil and we don't have jobs either. The real culprit here is minimum wage. It raises the cost of hiring so much that people just starting can't get in. The people hiring end up asking for super qualified help in order to justify those salaries. Also, globalism and globalization are two completely different things. Globalization creates a global free market economy that makes things more abundant and cheaper for everybody. Globalism is the idea of a central totalitarian world government that disincentives globalization.
@@kamikaze5528 I don't see how you can maintain globalization without globalism.
@@marbellaotaiza801 Why not? They're the opposites of each other.
If I can talk about my own parents (who I love very much, not to be misunderstood) there is definitely differences in worldview between us. something that struck me is their... how can I say this, 'general expectation that things just get better over time'. im struggling to think of an example to really drive this home, but maybe the 'get good grades, go to college, get a good job. congrats, you won at life' mindset is a good one. because it did indeed work like that when they grew up. today, i found that really isn't the case. not to say it doesn't still work, but you really have to pick your major well, and even then, you might have to move to get a good job. that's the case for me anyway, in my third world country. the 'dad works, mom is a housemaker' thing as well. i can't fathom having to support my wife, kids, parents and in-laws man-alone. when it comes to kids, im perhaps an advocate for being more hands-off. i think overparenting is just as bad as underparenting. and that much attention can actually be a burden for the child, to have every part of their life micromanaged. it also somewhat backfired in my personal situation because my parents really wanted a good education for me. i ended up being enrolled in tons of extra classes during high school, then when i studied engineering in college, i was suddenly left to do everything myself, and i seriously struggled because of it. anyway, i have a lot to say on this topic, but ill stop here (and that example of selling the family farm after hundreds of years... oof, that hits too hard)
I get what you mean. Boomers could afford to be overly optimistic (like a classic Superman film) because that’s how their world was. Even if you fell, you could get back up. Sadly it just doesn’t work like that anymore. There aren’t enough jobs that are low entry and pay well like that anymore. You can’t just go down to the steel-mill like everyone’s grandparents did. I do still generally believe that thinks will get better over time, but not nearly as quickly as it did for the boomers.
@@superjlk_9538 that's because boomers moved the steel mills to Chy-na
"I'm not a vampire." What an odd thing to say... Maybe do a video of you holding a cross, communion wafer, holding up a mirror so we can see your reflection?
Dude you shouldn't hold the Eucharist: receive on the tongue. And the cross would have to be properly blessed for it to make him blaze. Maybe eat some raw garlic on stream? 🤷♂️
That jab as 60s pop rock... wish I heard that sort of talk more often, I really never cared for it either.
Yes, the super-rebellious rock and rollers who were supported by major corporations and every corporate media outlet. Pretty funny when you think about it, just like the 1990s "edgy" corporate rock phase. Jimi Hendrix was the best-paid musician in the world in 1969.
@@DVSPress Yeah, that was all pretty laughable in the 90s in hindsight. Meanwhile the 90s death and black metal scenes... Well I mean, those sometimes went ulta-edgy in very wrong directions that are in no need of receiving praise, but the point stands.
I love it when you cover culture topics. Great analysis as always!
You posted that video a couple of years ago? It feels like I watched it not that long ago. 😂 I think another reason why people dislike boomers is that a lot of the moral decay that exists in society can be traced back to them. The other generations are just following their example. I also think there’s a difference between boomers born in the 40s and boomers born in the 50s and early 60s. Older boomers are responsible for the moral degradation of the late 60s. They are the ones still clinging to life in public office. They are far more out of touch than younger boomers, at least in my experience. They want more for themselves and less for the generations that followed them.
There is generational theory that gives younger Boomers their own name - the Jones generation. Likewise, the Silents, a significant number who are still alive, were the big brothers leading the way in Boomer culture.
@@atrifle8364 My grandparents were born in the early 30s. They were technically members of the Silent Generation, but had more in common with the Greatest Generation. Younger members of the Silent Generation, those born in the late 30s/early 40s, have more in common with baby boomers. They were the rebellious teenagers in the 1950s who were blinded by consumerism.
David and Brian and JD had a good run discussing that back and forth through blog articles. I think the specific article that talked about "lost" generations (the Silents, the Jones, the Ys) was at Brian's blog. David compiled and shared the whole conversation and I can't understand why they didn't published it to get a physical copy.
My mom took out a second mortgage on our house so she could go on multiple vacations in mexico. While there she cheated on my dad for basically no reason. My dad ended up selling the house which he soent year on because he wanted to "simplify his life". On the other hand, my sisters inlaws have been extremely generous. Helping her and her husband buy their own home, which they would never have been able to do without the assistance. I wish my parents had shown more care for us. I know they love me and my brother and sister, but they are so full of pride that they cannot see their nose in front of their face.
That is brutal. There we go, but only by the grace of God...
@@marbellaotaiza801 true
@@marvalice3455 I knew you seemed familiar, you're a fellow Argent aficionado: we had that silly exchange about Batman being a war criminal in the last UCU...
@@marbellaotaiza801 ah yes. I remember it. KZhead is a small world isn't it?
@@marvalice3455 it's the first time I have an Argent/Stewart crossover and it was long overdue, as they both have many coinciding points of interest. They're like the same character/channel, but one version is a Virgin (a meta Virgin that's no longer the butt of jokes) and the other is a Chad. They'd clash over Evangelion though...
The Boomers hated and despised The Greatest Generation. What goes around comes around.
"Don't trust anyone over 30."
The "greatest" generation gave us Hart-Celler and the Civil Rights Act which have been instrumental in tools the hands our Nation's murderers
Add me to the list of people who don't hater boomers because I had good boomer parents. My parents' bad advice came from a place of ignorance. Times had changed and they hadn't noticed. But, unlike many, they understand this. That being said, I remember the first time I realized there was something wrong with boomers. Some years back, I was at church and the speaker made a joke about not leaving anything to his children after he was gone. This was met with laughter from Silents (they don't get a pass) and boomers in the audience. Me and all the gen y's listening were appalled. The problem is that it's not a one-off. I've heard that same exact sentiment from other baby boomers throughout the years. They're quite proud of it too. "I worked for everything I've done, so you're not getting anything because..." I've seen Grandmas become indignant at the thought of babysitting their grandchildren (for free!) because their daughters have to work; spending all their money on scratch tickets and gambling cruises. The list goes on an on. It's pretty bad.
Your commentary on generally any societal, generational, or cultural trends is some of my favorite content on KZhead. You have a way of articulating human experiences that can be challenging for most to really access. Lean into it!
They are oblivious. Saying how much their salaries are compared to theirs instead of looking at how much things costed back in their day
Always here for the new boomer bashing episode. Soothingly cathartic, Thank You very much.
The saga continues
An excellent and very insightful commentary video. As always, you shine further light on an interesting topic.
Thank you!
Private student loans were non-dischargeable in 2005. Government student loans have been non-dischargeable since 1976. I’m a GenX’er and I couldn’t discharge my student loans, but I didn’t need private ones. Starting tuition in 1986 was $750/semester. It was $1500 when I graduated and $2500 when my brothers graduated 5 years later.
Now that's some hyper inflation right there way before the word was popular...
You are spot on about the music, but more specifically I can't stand how boomers blow themselves endlessly over the Beatles. FFS the Beatles are the most overrated band ever, not even the best music of the '60s, but the Boomers won't shut up about them. Like, imagine thinking that all human music peaked with I Am the Walrus and Hey Jude, and all music before or since is inferior.
Their music isn't good and John Lennon was a horrible human being. I don't allow the Beetles' music to be played in my house or my car.
@@shophet125 Stereotypical Boomer interaction (I am GenX): a customer I was dealing with recently was a very arrogant guy, it was clear he had limited technical knowledge, he didn't understand how to use the software he was complaining about, he refused to listen to any advice and would not take time to learn anything by reading tutorials or help articles given to him. I get on a support call with the guy, he turns his camera on, and he is some old Boomer who should have retired years ago, he is in his home office, and he's got about 10 framed Beatles pictures all over his walls displayed prominently so they will stand out when his camera is on. Not like, a Beatles pic, a Stones pic, and other Boomer bands: just all Beatles, every single one. I was tempted to ask, "So, what kind of music are you into?"
The Beatles are the most overplayed band ever. If I never hear a Beatles song again, it will be too soon.
At the end of the 2012 London Olympics the show included Paul McCartney singing, he was awful . Then I realised that as so much of the rest of the show was tongue in cheek clearly they had wheeled him on as 'Mad Uncle Paul' who always insists on doing karaoke at the family party when he's had a few. 😀
@@tuppybrill4915 "I... I got the reference"
It's easy to hate on the Baby Boomers, and it is not as though they try to contextualize why their lives have been better than the generations that preceded them and now succeed them. The Baby Boomers lived in a unique time in American history, where all other industrial powers were demolished in a war, and the thriftiness of their parents (who were last generation to experience real hardship) rewarded them with unprecedented prosperity, which was viewed as normal for the time... and that is the Boomer blind spot. The American experience from the '50s through the '80s conditioned that generation to believe that it was the way things would always be. Evidence which contradicts that 30-year experience has been mounting since the '90s, but it just does not penetrate their minds... we're always just one election away from going back to the '80s. The one cold comfort is that the Baby Boomers are living long enough to witness the collapse.
Don't forget, according to boomers it's all the wokesters' fault. You know, those people that hold about 5% of congressional seats are definitely the problem.
Thanks for saying Gen Y. I am Gen Y as that is what I was told I was. I was never told I was a Millennial. My parents couldn't talk about houses as they were living in Pop's house and only when he died that they could sell and buy a house (lucky). They did question why it was hard to get a job. "Just go down to 'x' and hand in resume". Mum forced me into Uni for a course I didn't want to do (not USA so no deadly loans). They travelled a lot when I was older and were on a trip when I was trying to plan for my wedding. I really needed them for that. They really showed a lack of love for me. I blame my damage on them.
I'll add this word of pity for the Boomers. The world has changed freakishly fast in the past 50 years compared to the previous 2000. Keeping up with that pace of change is very hard when you get older.
The Boomers I know luv their tech. They don't know how to use it, but they all have the latest/greatest.
The world changed pretty dramatically from ~the US Civil War to WWII as well, and some lived to see it. IIRC there was a guy who was in the Civil War and still in the military in WWII (though not in a combat role). Arguably war, at least, changed more in that time period than it did from the 1970s til now. You went from massed infantry formations and cavalry charges to tanks, air supremacy, and machine guns.
@@crushervenI wish the gap between the civil war and WWI would be covered more in media. The most we get is cowboy films that don’t really focus on that actual transition. I think a movie about a war journalist living up to the end of WWI would be a great film.
Imagine how future changes will mess with us Gen X/Y when we're old...
Theres something called the Cantillon effect and there are two spheres where this has worsened perhaps as much as a 4 or 5x for the Average/Median/Mode Man. (Women have issues but the government and media hardcore has their backs so nowhere near as bad). Namely the ability to get enough money through work to then get a decent woman and support a family. Both on the getting steady work for good purchasing power and passing through the beyond delusional requirements women want these days.
Zoomer here. I do like some old stuff. I know some you g people whose memory goes baxk to the 70s and late 60s. Hell I like oldies music. Fallout helped. I did griw up with the original trilogy of Star Wars. After watching the prequels. Raised by boomers but not the toxic kind. Can say the next generation will only remember how they ruined us and not for their music or plight.
Great commentary that explains the last 30 years! The 60s rock band reminded of a certain tribute band of that group from Liverpool.
Sort of on the nostalgia track: Your'e absolutely right that Gen Y needs to get over nostalgia, but there are so many Boomers that are 70+ years old and seem to somehow be in complete denial about their coming death. They constantly surround themselves with young people (not their grandkids), and I think it's part of the denial.
2:39 "I'm not a vampire." Hmmm...sounds exactly like something a vampire would say.😊
He should chew on some garlic on the next stream, just to clear things up 🧄
Do you 'really' know your black friend though? Do you REALLY? 🤔😂
I love these vids you do, very cathartic, we're about the same age I think. You hit the nail on the head with every point, aside for the student debt (which I was fortunate enough to avoid with scholarships) you could've been describing my life, from latchkey kid to the parents selling the family farm only to get divorced and declare bankruptcy several years later. Anyway, thanks for helping me blow off some steam tonight, afterglow is a really good read btw. Cheers.
Not having any debt when you begin your adult life is such a huge advantage. Even a few hundred a month can destroy your ability to take risks. I was very lucky.
I was a daycare kid but a very fortunate one as the daycare i went to was run by a housewife with two kids my age and she ran it out of her house in a good neighborhood. I was, still am, best friends with her son. It was more like a second family. Trips to the movies, the pool, the city, sleepovers with scary movies. Fond memories.
The "term" boomer is very American, and yet it slithered over to other cultures. Which is a shame, because it's a derogatory term specifically aimed at the American generation and has nothing to do with people of the same generation in other countries. For example, my boomer parents were freaking legends to live through the 90s of post-Soviet era. Not just managing to live through it, but prospering and giving me and my brother a functional family and a good headstart in life. The same can be said for most people of their generations. Without them, we would not have a country.
It only became derogatory because everyone hates the American Baby Boomer. The term itself only connotes the fact that the west had a post-war baby boom - the Boomers are just the product of that. Boomers themselves never considered it derogatory until their behavior started being called out.
@@DVSPress yes, I get that. It's just that the term is now used far outside the context. I speak another language and hail from another country. But even here, people on the Internet call anyone they deem to be old-fashioned and grouchy a "boomer". Meaning "a dinosaur", basically. Although, in our country, these "dinosaurs" endured and achieved so much that neither my generation nor the next will ever come close.
@@arcanefeline kids these days are calling Gen X/Y "ancestors". I'm from the Caribbean. My two cents are that while there was no demographic or economic boom compared to that of the US in my country, the cultural influence through music and cini (and direct investments in mining that stunted agricultural production) did kinda create like creole spiritual baby boomers. Maybe not in eastern Europe, but the boomer influence here was wild...
3:03 how would you have felt if you didn't had taken a second mortgage on the house to go on a cruise?
Regulations also contributed to cheap immigrant labor being used.
Milton Friedman pointed out that they were only a benefit so long as they remained illegal. That's why there was never any attempt to close the border, despite the fact doing so would benefit all legal immigrants already here and it being overwhelmingly demanded by Republican voters.
Boomers were the first generation to have an extended childhood en masse. Also, this is when advertising really got dialed in. When you target children, and especially girls, boys will spend money and fathers will spend money to make their girls happy. 100 years ago 10% of people graduated high school. imo 10th grade should be the last year of school. Let kids get jobs and build skills and confidence.
There's something very wrong about a society that expects people have to study into their late twenties and then climb the ladder into their late thirties to maybe be able to provide for a family.
As a boomer - my plan is to use a chunk of my pension pot to buy a 'cottage' in the back end of nowhere and give our family home to my kids as otherwise they will never be able to afford anything decent. I want to do that because it's the right thing to do. Regarding music I happened to look up The Beach Boys on YT and was struck how dreary their music was. When I said this at work a bit older boomer was incensed that I could criticise such great music which amused me. It's like the Beatles too, they just weren't that good. Toe tapping tunes but pretty simplistic stuff. You like the music because you're young not because it is necessarily any good.
I could just listen to you rip on boomers for hours. What a great rant. I've heard other people say similar things, but not nearly as well.
If we were to give them ANY defense, I would say that Baby Boomers assumed the economic prosperity of their time would last forever. Obviously, things like immigration, changes to taxation and introducing student debt, as well as a rapidly growing population etc, were bound to change this, but they obviously weren't really aware of it at the time. Actually, Boomers seem to only be learning now, in the 2020s, how miserable most people really have become. Covid may have awoken some regret in them seeing their grandkids suffer.
I didn't even mention Covid, but that whole fiasco was Baby Boomers causing their children and grandchildren to suffer immensely for their own fears of safety.
@@DVSPress hah, that’s actually a good point.
Boomers: People who drank the state's kool aid and had it great for basically just existing. Millennials: People who want to have it great just for existing and still drink the state's kool aid despite seeing what it does.
That's my experience as well, and in my country these particular factors are especially bad...
Millennials are the originators of "Thing was bad because we didn't do it enough" for most boomer policies. It's always year zero and real socialism hasn't been tried, etc.
My boomer parents (great people otherwise) were appalled at me and my sister's ambivalence about student loan forgiveness. We didnt even endorse Biden's plan, we were just vaguely sympathetic and didnt really oppose the idea on principle. They thought having your debt forgiven was some horrible thing and sent a bad message to younger generations who need to "keep their word." Lol
Yeah but there’s plenty of reasons to be against Biden’s student loan forgiveness that don’t have anything to do with “keeping your word” or any other Boomerisms.
@@baw5xc333 True I'm not even for it necessarily but my parents were upset that I wasn't outraged at the core concept.
It wouldn't be that bad if the debtor was forgiven, but the banks and universities took the blow, not the taxpayer.
While I definitely enjoy the things that I grew up with, I also realize it isn't the Marxian end of history. It's ok to have new experiences while sharing the older ones with new generations, so while the current era of film and music seem lost, time will seperate the dross and people will select their classics. Personally nothing excites me more than experiencing a hidden gem of a new film, a new musical artist, or a good new book.
I love finding new things. I wish more people were willing to, but I'm painfully aware that most of my peers are simply not interested in new or different things. They'd rather watch a bad sequel and talk to their friends about it than try to convince them to consume something new.
@@DVSPress The channel retroblasting had an excellent video about nostalgia wherein he covered how the normal process of growing includes letting go. For some reason Millennials ( my generation) can't let go, and while I understand times are hard, for me personally, it is just an unprecedented opportunity to forge a new future and to learn from the failures of the preceding generations.
16:15 Boomers really are the "Line Go Up" crowd
My city had a really low crime rate in the 80's and 90's. On par with most European paradises' numbers of violent crime to quantify. From 1985 until 2005 there was this campaign to close all the community spaces, arcades, school after hour's programs, public parks and sport fields to "end teenage vagrancy". Any child over 8 years old should be working in the mind of the defenders of these policies. And because boomers had voting majority and politicians have no morals, they did it. By 2000, when I was a teen, all public and community spaces were closed or had restricted access. What happened was an explosion of crime that hit the city in waves. At first it was drug use and vandalism. Later it turned into robberies and gang violence. Teenagers could not find anywhere to be without a police patrol car stopping by and beating everyone so they confessed a crime. Sometimes boomer neighbors called the cops on teen reunions inside private properties. There were academic papers linking into a direct correlation the destruction of public spaces to the soar in crime since the early 1900's. But Boomers tell everyone that they predicted that Xers and millenials would be so unruly teenagers that needed to be controlled at all cost. I worked public infrastructure and it took over 10 years to take enough of these morons out of positions of power, so city hall could restart a parks and recreation strategy that wasn't calling the cops to beat groups of children. Small crimes have lowered ever since but it will be at least another 10-15 years to rebuild all that was lost.
Destroying kids third spaces. That's really revolutionary, they really changed the world there huh?
@@a.wadderphiltyr1559 I would have to visit my local university to collect the papers and see the correlation coefficient of other factors. But lack of public and community spaces was over 0,7. It also matched national, state and local law enforcement data for crime initiatives on violent communities. A lot of NGOs point the same conclusion. The census, however, is easy to access and points to no significant change in demographics from 1990 to 2010. There was an increase in wealth per capita, but no significant inequality change. IHDI is on very high and increasing in constant fashion for over 30 years. Population was growing only what expected in the fertility rate from 1990 to 2010. Ethnicity is 75% white and 20% white-mixed, without significant changes from what it was in 1970.
My dad is a Gen X but he's seeing the light now that's he's retiring. Took him being semi-forced into an early retirement to finally understand that things are not easy for people on a low/fixed income. Whenever he decides to complain about the state of our economy or culture all I can say is, "Yep, this has been my whole life, I didn't ask for this!". Problem is, for a lot of these Boomers and "spiritual Boomers" is that they never seem to have the ability for introspection. Just watch cable news, blame the Liberals, blame all immigrants, blame GenZ, etc... The classic phrase of, "You aren't IN traffic, you ARE traffic." applies well here.
I never really thought about it as a generational thing until now, but when my grandfather died (silent generation, grandma passed five years before), my mom and her siblings (all boomers) squabbled over every last scrap he owned. I only heard about it second hand, but what I heard really disgusted me. I always expected people to have some dignity and respect for the dead, but all they seemed to care about was the money. I'll never forget a few years later, one of my aunts and her husband started grilling me about the one thing my grandpa explicitly gave to me (his rock collection; I'm the only geologist in the family). They started asking me geology trivia questions as if I needed to prove myself, and I had a moment where I kept thinking to myself "Is this really happening? Are they jealous of some rocks??" lol. Also now that you mention it, ever since my mom retired she's been playing the house equity shell game. They sold one house and used the profits to buy a fancy motorhome to tour the country in. They've been touring around for years now.
@16:21 That started before the Baby Boomers too. The idea was importing labor, products, etc, would lead to lower prices, helping everyone. Sam Walton would be a good example of this philosophy, tho I think he was against imports.
This is a wonderful video, but I'm afraid most Gen X-Z will spit it out and declare you racist because you state that more people cheapens the labor market. It's their loss.
It's really about why they accelerated it so much.
I can tell you as a gen xer our generation is a real mixed bag.
@13:18 It's probably not policy that caused housing prices to rise; we've spent 100 or so years moving towards cities. House prices in urban & suburban areas have out paced thevratevof infkation. But look at a map of houses available across a state; houses in rural areas, two or three hours from major cities are about $200,000-250,000; in line with inflation.
Some Psychedelic rock is pretty awesome Coven, Hendrix, and Blue cheer are awesome
The most self-centered generation that has ever existed
Boomers, Millenials and Gen Zs just don't have the same software installed.
...and Gen X doesn't have any software installed. Back in our day, personal computers ran off floppy disks.
@@electricpizza5774 those were the times...
It's actually common in scripture for entire generations to be judged. And the boomers seem to be doing a speed run of how many similar sins they can pile up
Gen x was raised with better responsibility. Now with social media, it gets kids into trouble far easier
The part I find interesting is: On a whole boomers haven't shown introspection. From voting, choosing policies for society vs the individual, resenting anything and anyone that doesn't agree with them no matter what.
I don't think they're capable of it for the most part. Even if I rationally explain to my Marxist parents everything wrong their worldview and they understand my point, they will have forgotten the entire conversation by the following week. And it's not due to actual medical issues or anything, they _only_ ever forget facts, information or anecdotes that run contrary to their political opinions, and their minds are perfectly healthy otherwise. I'm at loss on how to deal with those types of reactions from people in general to be honest.
Another hypothesis, based on your last comment: The baby boomers who say younger generations like 60's & 70's music better probably have a better relationship with their own kids. This relationship, in turn, influenced their kids' taste.
I feel that boomers made so many bad desicions that now me as a Millenial cant afford one bad decision without financially crippeling myself.
@9:35 I might suggest this over scheduling severed the relationship between parent & child; that's why most 80's & 90's kid's, both liberal & conservative, have problems with their boomer parents. (I'd also factor in day care, latch key kuds, etc.) Please note, this doesn't mean I have any problems with my own parents, or with boomers in general. I'm speculating on a premise, that mist millennials & gen X kids dislike baby boomers. I dont even know if the promise is right; is there A survey somewhere noting how many people of the current generation dislike the previous? I also must point out that the 70's weren't exactly stable financially, & that the '80's had high interest rates, & that the U.S. gradually started to offshore jobs during this time. To maintain a lifestyle on par with their parents, Baby Boomers might have needed to work more hours. Part if me wants to talk further, but this post is already too long. Goodbye!
A lot of good points. I'm kind of over it, though. My life is what it is and I'm tired of wasting my energy on being angry with the boomers.
sorry our generation had music too, I'm too busy listening to new metal, rap, and trance to care lol Boomers don't even know it exists since they don't use the internet 😂I do love 70s music too though
"Alternative? You mean AN ALTERNATIVE TO GOOD MUSIC?!" *shits himself laughing*
@@DVSPress I wanna see a boomer listening to KORN right now
back in my day you didnt need an lmi or job to buy a house so you should too. Also if i hear another boomer tell me to pay into super annuation il die.
Tell that to the elders of the Renaissance and Industrial Revolution. 😉
I’m a boomer. I enjoy the fact that the younger people are weak willed and blame my generation. It’s like watching the everyone gets a trophy club piss themselves over and over
You enjoy seeing young people struggle due to no fault of their own? Your pride will serve you poorly in the eternal pit of Hell.
That's rich coming from the whiniest and most entitled generation that ever was. The atrocious "participation trophy" concept which you allow yourself to mock is something you people created.
I see the majority of boomers as having an emotional intelligence of a teenager. I know a handful of "good boomers". But most are materialistic Karen's.
Keeping an eye out for McNabb in the comment section. I know he'll love this video.
There are certainly other emotions to associate with the boomer gen other than complaint, it's true for example to say that they are intrinsically funny, and so it's surprising that authors are neglecting to write much about them, but I am eager to read Tim Dillon's book, 'Death by Boomers'. kzhead.info/sun/jMWNaNpopIRjfK8/bejne.html
There's some selection bias in a lot of this. Only the lamest individuals in a group would identify with the group and then feel a need to defend it. So when anyone attacks "boomers", they're attacking the worst examples and mentally excluding the majority they know, like, and if pressed would just consider those to be "some of the good ones".
The large-scale stuff isn't selected. Boomers created both the daycare industry and the abortion industry. Divorce rates, etc. are all gross actions, and then there is the results of their voting habits, which also emerge from the group as a whole. But my bigger point is that even if most boomers are good (they are) because the cohort is so large and it had a higher-than-normal amount of bad people or sociopaths, everyone ends up with at least a few boomer anecdotes, usually from somebody close to them.
I’m Irish so I know nothing about boomers haha.
I enjoyed the British invasion boomer bands, the Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks; the' 'Muricans, not so much. I guess they were an escape from the salsa and merengue and vallenato that dominated the airwaves and parties in my land. I'd have to listen to them again to see if they hold up. BritPop bands from the 90s do hold up as I've been recently listening to Oasis, Blur, Supergrass, Pulp, Suede, MSP, Elastica, Ash, Feeder... It was the last cool thing before ground zero, and it went on for a while on bands like Franz Ferdinand. There's an interesting parallel between British invasion bands and modern architecture (Bauhaus, CIAM) on one hand, and 90s BritPop and contemporary modern architecture. The first ones wanted to change the world and their art was in major or lesser degree subordinated to that. Contemporary modern arch. and 90s BritPop just took the aesthetic of the former but without the agenda; they didn't wanted to save the world, they just wanted to make cool stuff...
I'm not partial, boomers and millennials both suck.
Vile nonsense. Lumping millions of people together and blaming them for what corrupt politicians and their greedy owners did is ignorant as well as divisive. Inciting younger generations to hate their forebears for something they had no control over will not help them. Better if the youth of today looked at themselves in the mirror first, and then turned their ire on the those who really run the show and are ruining their futures. Fighting amongst ourselves is precisely what our masters want.
Boomers are the ones running the show XD.
Perfect 🤌*kiss*
Is this a parody or an honest comment? Hilarious either way.
@@DVSPress It's like they go out of their way to be a literal stereotype of the points in your video