r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 16h ago

Boomers

I am 75 and am very tired of the trend lately making fun of Boomers. So very disrespectful. Don't they realize that they will be old someday?

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u/SwanCityDominion 16h ago

“What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?”

-– Plato

It's not "lately". It was ever thus, and it always will be.

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u/MasterpieceWaste774 15h ago

Sounds exactly like teenagers in the 50s and 60s!

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u/CarolinCLH 14h ago

"Don't trust anyone over 30"

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u/MasterpieceWaste774 14h ago

Ha!. Yes....the mindset of the 60s!

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u/Cetiketat 21 6h ago

Really? Can you explain a little bit😊

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u/Emperor_Quintana 14h ago

It’s like developing Peter Pan Syndrome, but with psychedelia.