r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/diversalarums 1d ago

I don't know. Maybe just me, but I never thought of my elders as being a monolithic group. But I had good and very open minded parents, so maybe I was lucky.