The disillusioned generation. A rant.

[bonzaga]

73. Um....What?

Polio, smallpox, DNA....All worked on at a time the baby boomers were, well, babies. Most not even born yet. A man on the moon was 1969. Most baby boomers were children then. A small number were just finishing their undergraduate degrees. I doubt they had much part in putting a man on the moon.

How many achievements since 1980? Wow, I'm glad you picked that particular year.

That was when the baby boomer generation overwhelmingly voted for Ronald Reagan. The unions were busted and the destruction of the middle class began. Deregulation allowed corporations to begin to consolidate; where there used to be 50 different banks, now there are only a few. The same thing happened to the media companies. Jobs started to ship overseas. The drug war began, when led to the private, for profit prison system. Gun violence has increased year after year after year.

Lots and lots and lots of achievements since 1980.

But the web? I'll give you that one. That was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. He is a baby boomer.