Huh. I think that actually describes all the boomers I know. My boomer relatives especially. I know for myself I'm constantly learning new things regarding stuff that happened during my lifetime (especially when I was little). The boomers around me decided everything they learned in the 50s and 60s was correct and there's nothing more to investigate.
It's frustrating hearing them go on about something but can't name any members of the Black Panthers, what organization Malcolm X belonged to, don't know anything about J. Edgar Hoover's bullshit, which presidents backed Pol Pot, Hussein, bin Laden, Marcos, or Pinochet (if they know who any of those people are), etc. It's like "You literally had a 30~40 year head start over me to learn this. What were you even doing?"
Every boomer I know has said something like "everything is too political these days. When I was younger there wasn't any of this politics stuff." And yet these are people who were alive for the Kennedy assassination, the civil rights movement, Vietnam war protests, the stonewall riot, at least two waves of feminism, a whole bunch of airplane hijackings. I could go on. I mention this stuff to these boomers and they respond with like "yeah but I never heard about any of it."
Huh. I think that actually describes all the boomers I know. My boomer relatives especially. I know for myself I'm constantly learning new things regarding stuff that happened during my lifetime (especially when I was little). The boomers around me decided everything they learned in the 50s and 60s was correct and there's nothing more to investigate.
It's frustrating hearing them go on about something but can't name any members of the Black Panthers, what organization Malcolm X belonged to, don't know anything about J. Edgar Hoover's bullshit, which presidents backed Pol Pot, Hussein, bin Laden, Marcos, or Pinochet (if they know who any of those people are), etc. It's like "You literally had a 30~40 year head start over me to learn this. What were you even doing?"
It's no wonder their parents hated them lmao
Every boomer I know has said something like "everything is too political these days. When I was younger there wasn't any of this politics stuff." And yet these are people who were alive for the Kennedy assassination, the civil rights movement, Vietnam war protests, the stonewall riot, at least two waves of feminism, a whole bunch of airplane hijackings. I could go on. I mention this stuff to these boomers and they respond with like "yeah but I never heard about any of it."
How tho
No social media and I assume they weren't sitting down to watch the evening news (which wasn't great anyway).
"Generation Me."