Did the baby boomer generation ruin the world?

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I doubt that Generation Y could possibly be any worse.

They might decide to cut off our social security, but after our generation has died off, no big deal.

I wonder, had boomers fought in a mass scale war, and then Gen X before me, the maliciously well-informed, therefore pariah of Gen Y, would my generation not have boom times borne of necessity to rebuild the world? It was once the world was rebuilt and austerity, which was the norm for every generation pre-boomers, should have set in once more.

Here is the evil in the boomer generation:

Middle-class welfare.

No other generation has ever received welfare when they an income. The only way in which boomers destroyed the world was by grooming the next generations to live off BOTH an income AND welfare, a dichotomy boomers invented.

economic woes aside, I feel that learned behavior left over from the affluent lifestyle they enjoyed is responsible for the entitlement/narcissist epidemic that we are experienceing now. This is a cultural void the like of has never been experienced before which stems from a childish agrandisment complex that is so ridiculous it almost completely separates me from any sort of connection with modern society. How does one go about re-edjucating 8 billion people for the next 1000 years that you can't all live like super models in rap videos? This is an epic event of humman psychology and we can't even understand the full effects of it all. It may be better to be alive now than it was in the 30's but erosion of sustainable social frameworks is no joke.

the sequence of events were set well in motion before even the boomers and gen x'ers came of age. I don't really blame them so much personally but I do believe they will be the ones that end up breaking the camel's back the next 10-20 years. The fate of the world will be decided during this time-frame.

Hey, don't blame us.

YOU try going to elementary schools that were so overcrowded that there were 50 or 70 kids per class.
Then going on to high school where the same thing happened.

University? Same again. They weren't big enough to cope with the demand, so many of us missed out.

But wait! When boys turned 18 they were often grabbed by the government and sent to Vietnam. Good fun!

A job? When you left high school or college there were a gazzilion others entering the job market at the same time.

If you think we had it easy then you can think again!

Culture has a mind of its own now; the internet. The influences and ideas of people from the past and the present across the globe changing second by second. There are many human experiments going on now that we unwittingly participate in, and have little to no control over, and have no idea what the results will be; the nature of man experiencing what he has not experienced before at geometric proportions.

We normally base our decisions for the future on our past. But if the present is too complex, can we be in effect locked out of ourselves? I often hear people say I never have time to reflect except for the drive to and from work. This isn't the case for everyone, but I do think it is a common experience for some. Did anyone ever experience something like this one hundred years ago? I doubt it.

A normal social frame work has common human elements that everyone can relate to and share in. The common element is the thing I think that is missing from todays world. It started with tribe, grew to village, country, nation, and now world. The history of our combined knowledge has lead us here, but what is it that we share. A sense of tribe? A sense of nation? Can a person even have a sense of world?

I don't think the baby boomers are responsible for ruining the world. I think what is happening in the world is largely the result of shared knowledge that has grown to the point where it controls us rather than us controlling it. For thousands of years we have used culture as an adaptation to environment. I think the question now becomes how long will we be able to adapt to a worldwide culture that has gained a mind of its own.

The rule is the younger the politician, the worse. This is because they were most likely brought up believing that There is No Alternative and they never remember a day when governments tried to and largely succeeded in implementing full employment.

It was agriculture that "ruined" the world. Once mankind got out of the hunter-gathering mode the sh*t hit the fan.

ruveyn

ruveyn is right damn agricultural revolution.