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In reply to the discussion: The disillusioned generation. A rant. [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)7. I'm sure we could find plenty in your generation who are hopeful
I hate generation vs. generation pitting.
Baby boomers were subject to the draft and sent to fight a useless war, involuntarily.
One generation had young kids to feed during the depression of the 30s, far more severe unemployment than there is now.
Another fought in WWII.
Some people lived under Jim Crow laws and were black. Others were gay at a time when you could not dare mention it.
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AYSO is a product of the baby boomer generation, just for clarification.
ScreamingMeemie
Dec 2013
#63
What happens when a generation of people grow up terribly disillusioned.> They make really good
jtuck004
Dec 2013
#6
Your observations that the disillusioned make good slaves and that their minds
snagglepuss
Dec 2013
#28
"I could offer a more optimistic assessment but it is what it is." That's about where I'm at.
Electric Monk
Dec 2013
#11
Thank you for your very insightful "rant." Here is an even longer one. I hope you don't mind.
JDPriestly
Dec 2013
#20
The baby boomer generation used up America like an old tissue. And they feel no shame.
Romulox
Dec 2013
#58