{"id":61364,"date":"2021-02-07T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=61364"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:41:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T13:41:15","slug":"qotd-the-greatest-sin-of-the-baby-boomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/02\/07\/qotd-the-greatest-sin-of-the-baby-boomers\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The greatest sin of the Baby Boomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>When I was in college, &#8220;grunge&#8221; was all the thing &#8230; except for the <em>really<\/em> cool alterna-kids, who were going through a Sixties retro phase. As much as I hate to think of anyone taking their cultural cues from Bill Clinton, that&#8217;s what happened. 1988-2001 was the great swan song of Boomerism; Bill Clinton was their avatar; <em>Forrest Gump<\/em> their valedictory (and, really, what could possibly sum up the Baby Boomers better than the story of a simpleton who lucked into a starring role in the greatest, wealthiest, healthiest, freest society on earth &#8230; then fucked it up and threw it all away on some dumb broad, because they were too goddamn stupid to see what they were doing? Hillary Clinton being the dumb broad in question).<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s harsh on the Boomers, well, sorry, Moonbeam \u2014 History don&#8217;t care about your feelings. But &#8220;the Sixties&#8221; isn&#8217;t the gravest charge History can lay against you. This is: After all that, you gave the world <em>us<\/em>, Gen X, <a href=\"https:\/\/thelastpsychiatrist.com\/2008\/10\/the_dumbest_generation_is_only.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the Dumbest Generation of Narcissists in the History of the World<\/a>. Yes, you guys are responsible for both &#8220;Rocky Raccoon&#8221; <em>and<\/em> &#8220;Smells Like Teen Spirit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/the-look\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Look&#8221;, <em>Rotten Chestnuts<\/em><\/a>, 2020-10-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in college, &#8220;grunge&#8221; was all the thing &#8230; except for the really cool alterna-kids, who were going through a Sixties retro phase. As much as I hate to think of anyone taking their cultural cues from Bill Clinton, that&#8217;s what happened. 1988-2001 was the great swan song of Boomerism; Bill Clinton was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28,41,13],"tags":[407,669,262,1205,200,1462],"class_list":["post-61364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-babyboomers","tag-billclinton","tag-culture","tag-generationx","tag-music","tag-severian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-fXK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63719,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61364\/revisions\/63719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}