Reply #234: Having suffered my adult life, starting with the self-congratulatory Big Chill

[Malikshah]

cultural orgasm up to this date... Yup--it's grating.

I'm a few years younger than the Boomers--not generation x or the like--

Just sick to death of the "Greatest Generation" Brokaw types, the Hanks/Spielberg "let's discover WWII for the masses" types, and the self-reverential boomers who believe that what they've gone through their entire lives is somehow unique to the world's experience. Why is it that we don't hear the same sort of claptrap from other "Boomer generations" from other countries of the world...some of them *did* have connections with WWII and did see a baby boom of sorts...

Nope-- the earnest self-awareness of this manufactured generation is much more grating.