Generalizations about generations -- particularly boomer-whacking ones -- always drive me around the bend. I don't know whether I'll muster the energy to take on Jim Tankersley's extended mock-formal
indictment of the boomers, but for the moment let me pull up the gist of a post taking a whack at
Thomas Friedman at his Thomas Friedmanest. And do read Hal Espen on boomer-bashing -- link in the footnotes.
...Friedman expands
the attack to encompass a more familiar target -- the boomers:
We had a values breakdown — a national epidemic of
get-rich-quickism and something-for-nothingism. Wall Street may have
been dealing the dope, but our lawmakers encouraged it. And far too many
of us were happy to buy the dot-com and subprime crack for quick
prosperity highs.
