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Dear Baby Boomers…

It’s been forty years. No one cares. The world does not — and never did — revolve around you. So please scurry off and die already, and take your self-serving myth-making right along with you.

Thanks,

Everyone else.

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  1. Miles Rost says:

    The Baby Boomers: Killing America from Woodstock to Private Stock

  2. HD4008 says:

    Interesting blog. Arguably, the biggest legacy of Woodstock is its huge impact on the real children of the sixties: Generation Jones (born 1954-1965, between the Boomers and Generation X). This USA TODAY op-ed speaks to the relevance today of the sixties counterculture impact on GenJones: http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090127/column27_st.art.htm

    Google Generation Jones, and you’ll see it’s gotten a ton of media attention, and many top commentators from many top publications and networks (Washington Post, Time magazine, NBC, Newsweek, ABC, etc.) now specifically use this term. In fact, the Associated Press’ annual Trend Report forcast the Rise of Generation Jones as the #1 trend of 2009.

    Here’s a page with a good overview of recent media interest in GenJones:
    http://generationjones.com/2009latest.html

  3. JMB says:

    “Generation Jones”? Just what we needed, another title for a group of self-centered and self-interested people to use when they talk incessantly about themselves!

  4. Vincent says:

    JMB

    Speaking for Generation X, I agree!

  5. Betz says:

    I guess I would be from generation Y (as in ‘Y-the-fuck-do-we-have-stupid-generational-names?’)

  6. Vincent says:

    The question is whether, as a scion of your generation, you feel comfortable speaking for everyone.

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