"What is Wrong with the Boomers?"

Recently, a friend asked me, “What’s wrong with the boomers?”

Well, the short answer is the same as what’s wrong with anybody else. They aren’t me. I don’t understand them, they do things without asking me or involving me, and it frustrates me, because I like to control things.

How We Should Respect the Baby Boomers

It is important for a man to respect his elders. The reason for this is not because he gains anything from them, or because they are wiser than him, or because they do anything to help him. The reason is a simple principle, that has nothing to do with the good or evil of an older person.

This world existed before we ever got to it. It was full of people. These people have had ten or twenty or thirty or more years to address and handle all of the problems given to them. All men have sinned. All fathers have made mistakes. Truthfully, the world now is so bad, that we can all be amazed that we were allowed by God to be born to our generations, because this whole thing should have run down a long time ago.

Television, motorcars, the Information Age, the Internet, pornography, the birth control pill, feminism, communism, stock options, Jimmy Carter, all these things are so unheard of to our ancestors that they probably could barely synthesize them into words. Oh, I am not saying they have not talked about all of these things. The problem is, they talked about these things in pieces and bits. They addressed private property. They addressed marriage. They did not address separate bank accounts between a man and his wife, for instance.

Hence, the respect we hold for our elders is not so much for the problems which they solved but for the problems which they faced. Their solutions have caused new problems, but we can at least unequivocally say that they provided for our birth and our life, even if it was attendant with extreme difficulty that we are now facing today. And granted, many of our brothers and sisters were not provided for and have died very young in body and soul through a myriad of means, but we at least made it. And that is better than some generations. Consider Noe, who was the only father in his generation to provide for his children, while the rest died and probably went to hell.

Wisdom

Now, the conundrum I face is this: respecting the elder generation while providing for them. They are currently passing into retirement. They are accustomed to a level of luxury that is unsurpassed throughout all of history. They desire this so greatly, and they have provided for it via complex financial contracts borrowing from, at the time, unborn generations. Like King Hezekiah, they said to themselves, after all, I will never meet these babies whose lives I am leveraging for financial gain in order to buy pleasure and comfort. And, of course, I am that baby, and so are my peers, and now here we are.

My son has just locked me in the garage. Oh, my God, have mercy on me, and let me finish this article which I am writing without any support in babysitting.

Anywho, it is important to understand something which is probably an incendiary statement that will prevent all of the baby boomer generation from listening to me, but I cannot think at this moment, because of the great burdens on me, how else to say it:

My generation is wiser than our parents.

Whoa! How is that possible! Isn’t wisdom directly associated with age and experience!

Oh definitely. This is the first time this has ever happened in history, so far as I know. I want you to understand how insidiously and totally technology has targeted the minds of men in order to break them, control them, harness them, harvest them, and sterilize their labors.

The technology of television came out in the baby boomer generation. It was the newest way of communicating “information”. It was limited in two ways: one, the information was not as much as is normally communicated. We have a hard time understanding that. All of us are so suffused with technological means of communication that we do not realize the amount of information communicated to us by walking outside and breathing in the sunshine. Anybody who has experimented with homesteading or silent contemplation may be able to know what I am talking about. The simple fact is that electronics do not communicate more information. They rather transfer the means of communication to different mediums which target the lowest portions of the soul, the passions, and confuse it until it has to relearn the natural way of thinking in order to interact with the artificial way of thinking.

Television does this and limits it to only a little window. There were not many of these in the beginning, and they took some effort to change in their channels. The second limitation on it is how easy this small window is to manipulate by those who produce it.

By contrast, the Internet, the computers, the smart phones, etcetera, multiply this in order to mimic the natural world more closely, while still perverting it almost unintentionally so that a man can say, “I will open this file on this desktop with my friends in it,” and never once touch a piece of paper, see a friend (only a picture, and this is not physical either), or own a desk.

The Internet is what my generation has grown up with. We think in a different way from the baby boomer generation, which is more accurate to reality, more schizophrenic, and very much suited to the illusionary world of computers and usury and other sterile items.

We Are All Crazy

The point of this, and it will take a long time to fully hash out in its details, is that we are all very crazy. That is, as people say continually in my church and everywhere where women reside, we are all broken creatures. And we mean by this something much greater than concupiscence or the capacity for sin, because it builds on top of those things. Our souls, our minds (synonymous), the thing by which we think, does not think the way it was designed to think. It “parts” are broken. Therefore, somebody can see something innocuous, like a glass on a counter, and burst into tears. We all have experienced this. It probably is not difficult to supply the story that explains this, but I will mention one word, and you can fill in the blanks: “alcoholism”, which word did not exist one hundred years ago, and has no reference to sin or virtue without intense explanation. And the explanation is usually very relative.

What do we do? Face up to the reality we live in. We are not going to fix all the broken parts, and we are not going to fix even very many of them, before we have to address the things that broke them, external to us. This is why men have to lead, and women have to follow. If a woman is hurt, other women ask her how she is. Men ask her who did it. Men can use a broken machine to do what they want, if they understand how it works and what it does, even without fixing it.

We have a wise, vulgar youth. We have a rich and tired elder generation. How can we work together to fix our problems? That is what all my other work is about. Obviously, money needs to go from the old to the young. That should not surprise anybody. It already does that. The baby boomers I know which would seriously think I am an incompetent and untrustworthy man for asking for $200 to pay my mortgage, are somewhat easily tricked into paying $20,000 for a young man to cut down one tree. (This is something that really happened. Hopefully I remember the number correctly. It astounded me. Maybe it was as low as $5,000, but it was a ridiculous sum, that is all I remember.)

Why not deal honestly with each other? Buy me a coffee, and I will tell you more.

"What is Wrong with the Boomers?"

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