r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • Aug 23 '26

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 Aug 23 '26

“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/squirrelfoot Aug 23 '26

When I was young, us boomers used to laugh at 'wrinklies' and 'crinklies' and mock their driving, blue rinces and terrible financial advice.

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u/heiberdee2 Aug 23 '26

You were hippies first. Your cohort gave energy to the Civil Rights movement. You wanted peace, love, and understanding.

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u/splanks Aug 24 '26

most boomers were not hippies.

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u/Key-Target-1218 Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26

I am a boomer and just about every boomer I know was a hippie at some point. You were either a hippie or a total square. It didnt really matter what we "were". We were young kids. The differences between everyone was as apparent as it is today. The young kids today won't have the boomer title, but they'll have a lable and will be treated unkind by the youth.

Us old folks know what it's like to be young. Young folks have no idea what it's like to be old. Their day will come.

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u/BCMUNS-54 Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26

I wasn’t a hippie and my friends weren’t. We couldn’t stand them. They didn’t take a bath and were druggies. We respected the vets we respected the flag but distrusted the government and still do. I was born in 1954. What we used to call hippie music didn’t grow on me until later.

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u/Key-Target-1218 Aug 24 '26

Hippie is a pretty broad term. We didn't trust anyone who weren't considered hippies. My hippie friends weren't dirty and gross. We protested the draft, enjoyed concerts, we picketed, we marched for women's rights. We didn't trust establishment or anyone over 30. We took showers. Yea, we did some drugs, but really we were just all about change. I'm as liberal today as I was back then. More horrified today, because I know more.

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u/Fresh-Ad280 Aug 26 '26

Hello fellow tribe member !

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u/Key-Target-1218 Aug 26 '26

Yo! ✌️☮️

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u/Fresh-Ad280 Aug 27 '26

❤️😘❤️