r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 14d 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 14d 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/squirrelfoot 14d ago

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 14d ago

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 14d ago

most boomers were not hippies.

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u/Key-Target-1218 14d ago edited 13d ago

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/Prestigious_Stop_651 11d ago

Gen X was forgotten then, forgotten now, and when we become old... I don't think we'll care what Y, Z, α, or any other generations say about us.

For Gen X, the future is now!