'Splaining Boomers to Millenials

[Adam H. Kerman]

C-SPAN interviewed Helen Andrews, who wrote Boomers, a profile
of 10 prominent Americans. She's a millenial.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?507571-1/qa-helen-andrews

It's repeated 8 pm EDT on C-SPAN Sunday 8/7/2021.

This is from her interview with Catholic World Report.

This is not a Boomer-hating book. My hope for it is not just
that it will help Millennials understand how we got here, but
also help Boomers understand why the rest of us are so angry
with them. I just want for the generations to understand each
other better.

It's a Millenial thing to 'splain old people in as condescending a
manner as possible.

Millenials are turning 40. I hope there are enough red sportscars to
meet your midlife crisis. Congrats on your first or second divorce.

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On Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 12:48:12 PM UTC-4, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> C-SPAN interviewed Helen Andrews, who wrote Boomers, a profile
> of 10 prominent Americans. She's a millenial.
>
> https://www.c-span.org/video/?507571-1/qa-helen-andrews
>
> It's repeated 8 pm EDT on C-SPAN Sunday 8/7/2021.
>
> This is from her interview with Catholic World Report.


> This is not a Boomer-hating book.

Bullshit. Here is the title of her book on Amazon:

Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster Hardcover – January 12, 2021
by Helen Andrews (Author)

There are 70 million of us (boomers) growing stronger every day (if covid doesn't kill us)

We hold the wealth of this country, and we will bankrupt it in our golden years with entitlements.

Our name is legion, for we are many.

-- mime

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What did the boomers destroy? Andrews makes no attempt to itemize all their harms; this is a short book, and those facts have been often covered by others, though certainly elements crop up in the six profiles. In short, the boomers destroyed the fabric of society. They demanded rights, and rejected responsibilities. They destroyed families, and thereby the fulfillment of both men and women (Andrews attacks, in passing, Betty Friedan and her odious and lying screed, The Feminine Mystique). They destroyed education, substituting cant and leftist ideology for rigor and the transmission of American ideals. They crushed the working class, both through their extractive economics, such as globalization, and by smashing all intermediary institutions, while they exalted the federal government and the priesthood of the administrative state, thereby neutering the working class as a political force and mutating beyond recognition the political structure of the Republic. They destroyed high culture in everything from architecture to music to film. And much more-but, in short, they ruined everything that makes a society strong, capable, and enjoyable for all its members, rather than benefits only an elite, extractive few. There can be no doubt of any of this, which all began in the 1960s, at the very moment the boomers were able to begin hijacking the existing system, with the help of dissatisfied members of former generations who at that time occupied positions of power, but who were soon enough shown the door as insufficiently dedicated to remaking America.

Andrews ends pessimistically, in essence afraid that the boomers have left nothing for the rest of us, having successfully gutted America, and that recapturing the Western tradition in these circumstances will be a tall order indeed. Certainly, that many Millennials are woketards suggests salvation is not to be found among them, though perhaps there are gems waiting to be discovered in that generation. She’s right, but she doesn’t take the next logical step, which is that something crippled that cannot be healed should be put down. We should burn it all with holy fire, every aspect of our elites-their government, their law, their economics, their academy, their control of technology-and then rebuild, perhaps with the assistance of Generation Z, among whom there are signs of a return to basing in reality. No time like the present to get started



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