I haven’t found a source that would stretch the definition of "baby
boomer" far enough to cover my own birthday, and yet the "ok boomer"
catchphrase somehow irritates me. Maybe because I perceive the 1960s
(when baby boomers themselves were young) as the last time in the
Western civilisation when young people, as a group, still believed they
could change humankind for the better. All I can see in the following
generations (ay, including mine) is punkers, yuppies, hipsters, and
those desperate ones like Thunberg who can do no more than try to at
least prevent a complete catastrophe.
Or maybe it annoys me simply because all my life I’ve been trying to
be condescending neither to those older nor to those younger than me,
while being patronised by my elders when young … and now that I’m old
feeling patronised by the younger ones.
(originally posted on WordPress)
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