Listen Up, Boomers: The Backlash Has Begun

Listen Up, Boomers: The Backlash Has Begun: American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead Posted By: galloglass- Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:33:11 GMT “Talkin’ about my generation”: the Who song once expressed the hope and self confidence of the Baby Boomers as they reached biological if not emotional maturity. It was an attack on the older generation, a defense of the young, but it includes an ominous refrain: “Hope I die before I get old.” Already, perhaps, the shadow of generational failure hung over the twenty something Boomers. Those shadows have darkened considerably as the Boomer sun moves past the meridian and an unmistakable air of twilight infiltrates into the declining hours of the long Boomer day.

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