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"Theory: What is happening is that our baby-boomers have gotten wrinkly. They’ve dedicated their lives to the premise that wisdom comes from the young, and the older generation is just a bunch of doddering old geriatrics standing in the way of progress."

It's okay, Mr Eratosthenes, the decline has been going on waaaay before the stinky hippies. It was simply quite a bit less flamboyant as those fools.

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Chesterton, Illustrated London News of July 9, 1921:

“A generation is now growing old, which never had anything to say for itself except that it was young. It was the first progressive generation – the first generation that believed in progress and nothing else….

[They believed] simply that the new thing is always better than the old thing; that the young man is always right and the old wrong. And now that they are old men themselves, they have naturally nothing whatever to say or do. Their only business in life was to be the rising generation knocking at the door. Now that they have got into the house, and have been accorded the seat of honour by the hearth, they have completely forgotten why they wanted to come in.

The aged younger generation never knew why it knocked at the door; and the truth is that it only knocked at the door because it was shut. It had nothing to say; it had no message; it had no convictions to impart to anybody….

The old generation of rebels was purely negative in its rebellion, and cannot give the new generation of rebels anything positive against which it should not rebel. It is not that the old man cannot convince young people that he is right; it is that he cannot even convince them that he is convinced. And he is not convinced; for he never had any conviction except that he was young, and that is not a conviction that strengthens with years.”

They're just trying to ram through every retarded radical idea they had or heard in their drug-hazed youth before they die "for the children"

Well, they did bring us Velcro and cell phones and, um, a whole bunch of other stuff.
Like the internet, DVDs, patchouli oil, paper plates, radial tires, so forth.

Chas - Radial tires were a godsend. That other stuff I could easily do without.

I'm an early boomer, and I'm getting wrinkly, and I refuse to fit the stereotype presented here. However, stereotypes are NOT made of whole cloth, and have a basis in fact somewhere. Indeed, many of my fellow boomers closed their minds after imbibing the Aquarian Age nonsense.