OK Boomer

Personally I avoid the generalisations.

Some Boomers have done some crap things most certainly. So have some Gen X, Gen Y, men, women, white people, black people and so on. There's good and bad in every group.

Likewise I could say that most men don't abuse women. Most people who drink alcohol don't throw a punch at anyone. Most Westpac shareholders didn't knowingly own a company that's allegedly facilitated serious crime. And so on.

Practical reality though is that it's largely Gen X in power these days. There are exceptions of course but increasingly the Boomer generation has left / is leaving the board rooms and political offices and it's now Gen X filling those shoes and to a presently limited but inevitably increasing extent Gen Y.

As with any changing of the guard, you can only blame your predecessors for so long before it becomes excuse making for your own failures. Looking at Australian politics, the only Boomer Prime Ministers we've had were Rudd, Gillard, Abbott and Turnbull.

Howard, Keating and Hawke were all born prior to that and Morrison's a Gen X.

If there's a problem now then it could be blamed on the Boomers assuming it's only been a problem for the past decade or two. If it's still a problem a decade from now well then blaming the Boomer generation is going to be wearing rather thin.

To be fair though, well it could certainly be argued that Australian politics was somewhat of a circus under the Boomer PM's. In contrast those who came immediately before on either side of politics were far more stable and so far Morrison also seems to be pursuing that stable sort of approach.

For the record I'm not a Boomer (Gen X).

 

Oooo, watch out for confirmation bias, chaps ( not directing that at anyone in particular).

I'd love to hear the Freakonomics view of this.... the stats behind the stats.

For the record, I'm a boomer (1961), and declare myself as so biased, but would love to see some really objective analysis.

 

https://www.axios.com/millennials-a...ons-ff2a6de5-cfde-42c5-ab38-ec0908fbfcc9.html
Millennials are described, by others and themselves, as "spoiled," "lazy" and "entitled," according to an Axios/SurveyMonkey survey.

 

Okay Boomer. It's basically saying f*** you.

Okay, cool. My response?

FU2!

How I vote, how I interact with millennials, what information I choose to share, whether I choose to teach what I know, etc.

Boomers, and indeed the greatest generation ( the one before, excluding the egregious Fonda of course), we know shxt, and you can't pigeon hole all boomers based on the selfishness and entitlement of some (traits not exclusive to boomers).

So, millennials, Gen X, y, and z, learn the hard way if you want to, we don't care. But, how you treat us will depend on easy we make it for you. Usher in the idiotocracy if you really want to.

 

Personally I see it as being much the same as gender wars.

Conflict manufactured by the media in order to divert attention away from real, actual problems that everyone should be concerned about no matter what their age or gender is.

 

I think the issue there is that Gen Y does seem more sensitive to words than anyone older.

Replace the reference to age in the statement with a reference to race or sexuality and the perception is they’d be outraged at dismissing someone’s views based on their race, gender or sexuality.

It looks like incredible hypocrisy.

 

Knobby, if we can get rid of the identitarianism from our world, there wouldn't be much of a problem. and, the extreme right and the extteme left are both guilty of this, in different ways.

Ok Booner is just another way that the extreme left is indulging in identitarianism, in essence disregarding the opinions of people of a certain age group.

You may argue that the same is being applied to millennials etcetera, and that's true.

But both are toxic and should be discouraged.

 

Getting rid of it and returning to debate based on policy would fix rather a lot of things I expect.

The whole concept basically amounts to a form of bullying. Can't win with facts so just ridicule the opponent.

Disgraceful most certainly and it comes from all sides at the moment indeed even non-living things, technologies or machinery, have become caught up in it at times.

 

Good God! Yet another social media platform I've never heard of!

Rest easy @Knobby22 this boomer ain't going anywhere near it. LOL

 

Even Twitter and Facebook are a lot of rubbish. Too many people with too little to say.

Thank God (aka Joe Blow) for "old fashioned" forums like this.

 

Half the **** is staged on all the video sharing platforms. The updated saying:
"Believe nothing of what you hear or what you see" applies to the Internet.

In saying that, there is a huge generational divide (and I'm gen x) to the younger ones. I'm not sure they are as independently capable as older generations were. And phone use is a huge problem.

 

I like the old forum format too.

I only use Facebook for marketing my business and networking with colleagues. But only because everybody else is on there.

Twitter is a 95% shxtstorm, I'm only on there to follow a few people but holy Dooley do you come across some rubbish!

 

boomers were described the same way by their elders, the hippy and rock n roll generation were definately frowned upon.

I think elder generations always look down on those below them, and it is normally unjustified.

 

I am with Nobby....confession "I am a Boomer" its all gotten a bit crazy with the current private debt burden (which really is insane), house prices and I always wince watching young people doing work for the bare minimum wage with no career prospects or training out side of Uni the so called gig economy i.e. slave labour, bend over and keep smiling.

All fuel by lazy economics of massive immigration policy's and 457 visas bring in skilled labour instead of investing in our youth plus severe deregulation......let the market rule.

This has been setup by boomers (forget the politics all sides guilty)

My own kids have worked far harder than I ever did getting through Uni (with debt rules made by boomers that didnt pay SFA)then getting paid jobs less than me even thought I was a tradesman all be it elect/Instrument.

I never had to compete against imported labour and had protection against exploration and a growing safety environment now major companies can under paid with out repercussions, banks can rip off dead people and no one goes to jail how is this so?

Boomers.