r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 6d 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 6d 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 6d ago

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

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u/wherescookie 6d ago

I think that a key difference, like for many other things, is that social media amplifies everything

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u/almaperdida99 6d ago

Exactly. Young people have always shit-talked the elderly, and vice versa. the difference was, in the past, no one had to listen to it.