British Spin has a brilliant post on the children of the 60’s, here’s a choice excerpt:
This is a generation that faced no war, lived through no economic collapse. Shielded from dictatorship by weapons they had no responsibility for. This is a generation with a silver spoon in it’s mouth.
And What did they do? Nothing.
Well, I’m a child of the 80’s.
I’ve got to say, he’s right on this one. In the words of an American friend of mine:
“Yo! Baby boomers! Quit voting in blocks and make with the dying!”
I’m sick and tired of the 60’s kids informing me of the cost of liberty. I won’t take that from a generation which did nothing to defend it, or even paid the price for it so much as once. Don’t even try to suggest that Vietnam constitutes such payment.
During the 80’s liberalism took a turn for the worse and stood idly by cheering on the establishment of a containment-driven Middle East policy who’s sole harvest appears to have been limitless oppression and carnage, culminating in the attacks on September 11th.
Now, when we finally have a situation where the left can achieve something and indeed has achieved much, it is the 60’s kids who insist on tearing down the centre-left coalition in what appears nothing more than the petulant rage of a generation who now sees its own impotency and incalculable political failure.
There’s a reason why I skip Jenkins’ column every time I open the Times. He embodies everything about the baby boomers than pisses me off and is, without exception wrong on every issue.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at July 21, 2004 02:25 AM | TrackBack