Comments on: The End Of An Era? http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/12/the-end-of-an-era/ General interest observations and true web-log. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:29:28 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: The0ne http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/12/the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-1470721 The0ne Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:37:57 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36515#comment-1470721 It's an end to baby boomers alright. What has George Bush done that they're not going to get when they are ready to retire, and what is the economy going to be like when they do. It’s an end to baby boomers alright. What has George Bush done that they’re not going to get when they are ready to retire, and what is the economy going to be like when they do.

]]> By: Time The Avenger http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/12/the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-1469987 Time The Avenger Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:41:54 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36515#comment-1469987 We are not quite boomers and the X’ers think we are old already To young to have protests much over civil rights or the Vietnam war, unless you had a very PC Jr High. Our older sibs and parents made Elvis and the Beatles what they were. for us Zeppelin in a great band not an air ship from WWII, The Clash and Bob Marley filled the cassette tapes in our Walkman don’t confuse us with that 8-track generation or the kids that loaded up on those Hair bands. Three Mile Island and Chernobyl still give us cause for concern about nukes. We agree Reagan was a minor deity, but for evil of good we are divided on that. …(evil) Seems like John Paul II was pope almost forever. We started buying our own gas during the last major oil crisis We’ve always liked Japanese products the Boomers use to laugh at them. The X’ers don’t care where things were built just what they are. We missed out on Free Love but that might be for the best. Being openly gay is no big deal but Boy George is just silly. We thought if Egypt and Israel could learn to get along there was hope for the Middle East(Carter tried so hard) Jaws, Star Wars and The Rocky Horror Picture Show got lots of our summer money. The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family told us what family were supposed to be like in Hollywood, not the The Cosby Show and Family Ties or Leave it to Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet. We don’t have religious convections, pseudo patriotism or materialism of the X’ers(sorry) Nor can we take credit for beating back the cultural conservative norms of the 50s the boomers did that(thanks) Yup we don’t quite fit in and now we will be running this place I couldn’t be happier. Wish us well its for your own good. We are not quite boomers and the X’ers think we are old already
To young to have protests much over civil rights or the Vietnam war, unless you had a very PC Jr High. Our older sibs and parents made Elvis and the Beatles what they were.

for us
Zeppelin in a great band not an air ship from WWII, The Clash and Bob Marley filled the cassette tapes in our Walkman don’t confuse us with that 8-track generation or the kids that loaded up on those Hair bands.

Three Mile Island and Chernobyl still give us cause for concern about nukes.

We agree Reagan was a minor deity, but for evil of good we are divided on that. …(evil)

Seems like John Paul II was pope almost forever.

We started buying our own gas during the last major oil crisis

We’ve always liked Japanese products the Boomers use to laugh at them. The X’ers don’t care where things were built just what they are.

We missed out on Free Love but that might be for the best.

Being openly gay is no big deal but Boy George is just silly.

We thought if Egypt and Israel could learn to get along there was hope for the Middle East(Carter tried so hard)

Jaws, Star Wars and The Rocky Horror Picture Show got lots of our summer money.

The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family told us what family were supposed to be like in Hollywood, not the The Cosby Show and
Family Ties or Leave it to Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet.

We don’t have religious convections, pseudo patriotism or materialism of the X’ers(sorry) Nor can we take credit for beating back the cultural conservative norms of the 50s the boomers did that(thanks)

Yup we don’t quite fit in and now we will be running this place I couldn’t be happier. Wish us well its for your own good.

]]> By: Paddy-O http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/12/the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-1469921 Paddy-O Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:19:21 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36515#comment-1469921 #21 - Yes, "boomers" really came from parents who where young adults during WW2. Technically, it is when you are born though. #21 – Yes, “boomers” really came from parents who where young adults during WW2. Technically, it is when you are born though.

]]> By: Steve http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/12/the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-1469915 Steve Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:08:46 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36515#comment-1469915 #14 Mr. Fusion I think the line comes from the birth statistics. An argument can be made that the number of people of the same age (big numbers between 1945 and 1964) and the age difference between boomers and their parents (the WW2 generation) created alot of similar behavior traits. There' a long list, some good, some bad. But the similarities are there. #14 Mr. Fusion I think the line comes from the birth statistics. An argument can be made that the number of people of the same age (big numbers between 1945 and 1964) and the age difference between boomers and their parents (the WW2 generation) created alot of similar behavior traits. There’ a long list, some good, some bad. But the similarities are there.

]]> By: MikeN http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/12/the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-1469905 MikeN Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:41:47 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36515#comment-1469905 Does Obama have a misplaced sense of superiority about his generation? About the only good thing Britney's ever done was saying she didn't know who the Beatles were. Does Obama have a misplaced sense of superiority about his generation?

About the only good thing Britney’s ever done was saying she didn’t know who the Beatles were.

]]> By: QB http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/12/the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-1469902 QB Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:32:49 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36515#comment-1469902 Reading the comments here are funny. I was talking with a colleague at lunch about this (I'd heard of Gen Jones before) since we were both born around 1960. Boomers don't thinks we're "real" boomers because we missed Woodstock and Disco, etc. GenXers don't think we're GenX because of the 1965 cutoff or we never watched Friends religiously or something. We both feel like we're in between and don't identify with either group. We also know because of the boom we may never get a chance to retire - but that's the cards we've been dealt so we might as well just on with it. The times you grow up in shape you. Reading the comments here are funny. I was talking with a colleague at lunch about this (I’d heard of Gen Jones before) since we were both born around 1960.

Boomers don’t thinks we’re “real” boomers because we missed Woodstock and Disco, etc. GenXers don’t think we’re GenX because of the 1965 cutoff or we never watched Friends religiously or something.

We both feel like we’re in between and don’t identify with either group. We also know because of the boom we may never get a chance to retire – but that’s the cards we’ve been dealt so we might as well just on with it.

The times you grow up in shape you.

]]> By: GF http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/12/the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-1469885 GF Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:18:10 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36515#comment-1469885 I'd call Obama part of Gen X. I’d call Obama part of Gen X.

]]> By: Dave W http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/12/the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-1469851 Dave W Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:25:08 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36515#comment-1469851 While Obama is technically a boomer, as a 1962er, there is a definite difference between the early boomers and those born after, say 1960. My brother and sister were born in 54 and 55, and they had distinctly different childhood experiences and young adult lives from me. As far as it goes, my partner was born in 1969. While I recall the "world before the 1960s cultural revolution took hold" he doesn't. I remember the world as it was. I remember dress codes in public schools, (girls in dresses, boys with hair above the collar, shirt tails tucked in, etc.), cars without seatbelts, all television being black and white because color was too expensive (and there was only 1 television in the house), 25 cent gasoline, the pre-Watergate patriotism, abortion being illegal, one income families that could afford houses, rock music being considered a fad not appreciated by "adults" and so on. I have actually experienced the world as it was in say I Love Lucy, where in a priceless comment on the times, in one episode, Ethyl Mertz states, "I'm not going on a subway in blue jeans!". Later born people never actually knew this world, but I lived in it as a small child, and I saw it change. But I was a kid. My brother, on the other hand, had a draft card, was a junior in high school before he could leave his shirt tails out, remembers streetcars in Los Angeles, entered the workforce in the recession of the late 1970s, and so forth. I'm far closer to Obama than my brother, from a cultural standpoint. But, as others have stated, Congress and the Cabinet was full of boomers (and WWII generation). I hope Obama is up to it! While Obama is technically a boomer, as a 1962er, there is a definite difference between the early boomers and those born after, say 1960. My brother and sister were born in 54 and 55, and they had distinctly different childhood experiences and young adult lives from me.

As far as it goes, my partner was born in 1969. While I recall the “world before the 1960s cultural revolution took hold” he doesn’t. I remember the world as it was. I remember dress codes in public schools, (girls in dresses, boys with hair above the collar, shirt tails tucked in, etc.), cars without seatbelts, all television being black and white because color was too expensive (and there was only 1 television in the house), 25 cent gasoline, the pre-Watergate patriotism, abortion being illegal, one income families that could afford houses, rock music being considered a fad not appreciated by “adults” and so on.

I have actually experienced the world as it was in say I Love Lucy, where in a priceless comment on the times, in one episode, Ethyl Mertz states, “I’m not going on a subway in blue jeans!”. Later born people never actually knew this world, but I lived in it as a small child, and I saw it change. But I was a kid. My brother, on the other hand, had a draft card, was a junior in high school before he could leave his shirt tails out, remembers streetcars in Los Angeles, entered the workforce in the recession of the late 1970s, and so forth.

I’m far closer to Obama than my brother, from a cultural standpoint.

But, as others have stated, Congress and the Cabinet was full of boomers (and WWII generation).

I hope Obama is up to it!

]]> By: Dallas http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/12/the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-1469796 Dallas Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:55:18 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36515#comment-1469796 More like end of an ERROR! More like end of an ERROR!

]]> By: MikeN http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/12/the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-1469770 MikeN Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:24:33 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36515#comment-1469770 Should be the last time we hear about Vietnam in a presidential campaign. Should be the last time we hear about Vietnam in a presidential campaign.

]]> By: Mr. Fusion http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/12/the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-1469721 Mr. Fusion Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:23:08 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36515#comment-1469721 The idea that there is some magic line that separates people into generations is more bullcrap. Was there supposed to be a difference between my one sister born in 1960 and the youngest born in 1965? The idea that there is some magic line that separates people into generations is more bullcrap. Was there supposed to be a difference between my one sister born in 1960 and the youngest born in 1965?

]]> By: BubbaRay http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/12/the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-1469698 BubbaRay Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:49:06 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36515#comment-1469698 <blockquote>Obama is the 3rd boomer President. The 1st two tarnished the office. Let’s wait and see whether Obama does, or doesn’t.</blockquote> Yes. Technically, Obama is a boomer. But I'll agree with you, we'll just have to wait and see. Especially WRT the Congress, which has both boomers and "the greatest generation" to protect the pork.

Obama is the 3rd boomer President. The 1st two tarnished the office. Let’s wait and see whether Obama does, or doesn’t.

Yes. Technically, Obama is a boomer. But I’ll agree with you, we’ll just have to wait and see. Especially WRT the Congress, which has both boomers and “the greatest generation” to protect the pork.

]]> By: Paddy-O http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/12/the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-1469673 Paddy-O Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:21:15 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36515#comment-1469673 KD Martin asked, "The End Of An Era?" Umm, no... Obama is the 3rd boomer President. The 1st two tarnished the office. Let's wait and see whether Obama does, or doesn't. KD Martin asked, “The End Of An Era?”

Umm, no…

Obama is the 3rd boomer President. The 1st two tarnished the office. Let’s wait and see whether Obama does, or doesn’t.

]]> By: amodedoma http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/12/the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-1469659 amodedoma Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:58:08 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36515#comment-1469659 Isn't it just typical, bustin' on the older generation and blamin' us. Don't think that makes you any different - Every generation does the same. Looks to me like the playstation generation won't have a hell of a lot to offer though, over developed thumbs, a reduced attention span, and practically no reading or writing skills. Isn’t it just typical, bustin’ on the older generation and blamin’ us. Don’t think that makes you any different – Every generation does the same. Looks to me like the playstation generation won’t have a hell of a lot to offer though, over developed thumbs, a reduced attention span, and practically no reading or writing skills.

]]> By: QB http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/01/12/the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-1469650 QB Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:38:41 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=36515#comment-1469650 Floyd, that's a very jonesey thing to say ;-) Floyd, that’s a very jonesey thing to say ;-)

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