Word association: When I say "Baby Boomer" what is the first word that comes to mind?

[Writer]

?

[rwheeler31]

1. sex

[truedelphi]

3. & Drugs and rock n roll

NO weird baggy pants falling off our exposed asses. No tattoos everywhere.

But really great music and cheap pot. With such few penalites it was almost like being legalized - if you lived in a college town.

[eShirl]

2. diaper

[truedelphi]

5. Heh. Heh.

[ContinentalOp]

4. Me Me Me

Does one word three times count?

[ohheckyeah]

12. Really. We were

materialistic little asses who had to have a limousine to get to the prom, $200 designer sneakers and cell phones as soon as we could talk. Shame on us.

[annabanana]

20. ?. .Cell phones weren't even invented until we were already OLD. . n/t

[Waiting For Everyman]

30. Same for the designer sneakers.

But then, why let facts get in the way of prejudice?

Fact is, I only buy cheapie sneakers to ruin on yardwork.

[ohheckyeah]

32. I was being sarcastic.

I thought it was obvious but guess I was wrong. Sorry

[HughMoran]

50. Funny how often sarcasm fails on the internet

So many assume the worst - especially on political sites :)

[11 Bravo]

66. You were not wrong. It was obvious.

[Ishoutandscream2]

22. Bingo!

[quaker bill]

31. Now,

I went in a '61 bug that I had bought by working since I was 15, and rebuilt myself and installed an 8 track tape and custom speakers in. The hand brushed paint job was a classic. I did have a tophat, tailcoat, white gloves, spats, and a real (borrowed) gold tipped cane. That I had rather long curly hair that stood out from under the tophat to my shoulders just added to the image. I figured that if I was going to dress, I would go all the way to absurdity. It was fun.

Only the conservatives arrived in limos.

[ContinentalOp]

33. I didn't say anything about materialism.

I was talking about the "me generation" as the boomers were once called. That "special" generation who make the greatest music ever, had the best sex ever, expanded their consciousness, saved the world, ended the war, gave civil rights to African Americans, started the environmental and woman's movements, among other amazing feats of selflessness.

Although arguably their greatest accomplishment is somehow shrugging off that "me generation" tag and successfully pinning it on their children and grandchildren instead!

[mitchum]

41. But you forgot how the wonderful glorious boomers also selflessly dubbed their parents...

"The Greatest Generation"
Which is boomerspeak for "Thanks for spoiling and coddling me, but could you now hurry up and die and leave me your stuff?"

[Raksha]

62. Well, I don't know if we had the "best sex ever" or not.

I mean...how do you do a comparison? Although I agree that we had the best music ever (it's not like I'm prejudiced or anything).

[GoCubsGo]

25. Yes, because.

...the second "Me" applies to their children, and the third one applies to their grandchildren, who as self-centered as they are---if not more so.

[ContinentalOp]

36. Right, which is how they successfully managed to make everyone forget about that "me generation"

label and pin the blame on their children and grandchildren instead. And yet, what's more obnoxiously self-centered than taking an observation about your own generation and trying to project it onto your own children? It's the ultimate case of "I know you are but what am I?"

[Sequoia]

72. No, that was the Brady Bunch generation.

Baby Boomers were last born in 1960.

[stevedeshazer]

6. Fat.

[GoCubsGo]

21. That describes pretty much every generation...

...in this country. There are a hell of a lot more fat kids nowadays than there were when Baby Boomers were kids. Lots of the "Greatest Generation" are fat, as well. Ditto for Gens. X and Y.

[ContinentalOp]

37. Yeah, Y are the first generation in ages that are going to have a shorter lifespan than their parent

s

[leftofthedial]

7. creative

diligent

rock n roll

[Canuckistanian]

8. Clackers

[JuniperLea]

9. Broad...

As in Eli Broad... he made a fortune following the Boomer curve and trying to figure out what they would need next... first it was homes, then it was life insurance, then it was retirement fund management. He also did research on the Great Depression and how the first people to pull themselves out of the hole did it because they owned a lot of art... hence the Broad Art Foundation.

Brilliant man. I had the privilege of working for his company for nearly a decade.

[mitchum]

28. Did he talk about how boomers will become religion crazy once the reaper starts getting closer?

I'm not brilliant, but merely rather bright, and I realized 30 years ago that will happen.
Count on it.

[JuniperLea]

60. He didn't have to

Religion is the knot at the end of the rope for a lot of people, and the boomers are collectively a lot of people. Stands to reason.

What I don't get is why people who claim to be so in tune with God are afraid of meeting God through death. Curious.

[mitchum]

76. But it is important to tailor the life after death fantasy for the boomers...

I think a very effective approach would be based on ancient Egyptian practices where one can still have one's material possessions after death.
Because, as we all know, if there is one thing that boomers possibly love even more than themselves, it's their...stuff.

[Uben]

10. Esiason

Gotta be a baby there somewhere!

[ColbertWatcher]

11. Marketing. n/t

[blonndee]

13. consumerism

[BlooInBloo]

14. Dirty Fucking Hippy.

:rofl:

[polichick]

15. Peace

[polichick]

34. Love

[polichick]

35. Cool

[Mari333]

16. Captain Kangaroo nt

[handmade34]

69. me too

...Bob Keeshan retired to Vermont and was activist on many accounts.

[aquart]

17. Me.

[Xithras]

18. Hippies

[mitchum]

19. Self-mythologizing

[valerief]

23. Duck and cover. nt

[Waiting For Everyman]

24. Still rockin'.

:bounce:

...although some of us are more accustomed to that as in chairs.

:hide:

[konnichi wa]

26. Shock & awe in Iraq

...

[Lint Head]

27. Genius!

[muntrv]

29. Woodstock.

[Mike 03]

38. "Parents" I'm trying to be obedient and answer your question as you ask it,

in one word. NT

[whathehell]

39. San Francisco

[WhiteTara]

40. social security

:rofl:

[havocmom]

42. again: Problem is not generational - It's the CLASS WARFARE

And the way the top class keeps winning, while greatly outnumbered, is by turning various segments against each other to keep us to busy to notice they are feeding on all of us.

[MindPilot]

47. Word! n/t

[Overseas]

71. Yes indeed! Corporate PR has become very sophisticated.

It is interesting to see lots of anti-boomer threads on DU lately. The Baby Boomers are a very large group of people-- there were conservatives as well as liberals, right wingers and left wingers in it.

Hannah Bell posted 1980 election data in another of those threads, showing the diversity of opinion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5609014&mesg_id=5609168

and 1984 voting data:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5609014&mesg_id=5609168


My comments in that thread were more about the concerted, intense propaganda effort since then to move our political discourse to the right, out of fear of the counter culture and its talk about sustainable growth, ecology, human rights and economic justice. I recommended "What Liberal Media?" by Eric Alterman, for a detailed review of those campaigns.

It really is class warfare, and the Top 5% has won. Their "Trickle Down Economics" has proven to be Trickle Up Economics. Reagan's tax cuts for the rich and union busting have had far reaching consequences.

Corporate PR and lobbying have become more and more sophisticated. Keeping people divided and making it feel like fun. Rugged individuals.

[quiller4]

43. Weed

[michreject]

44. Diane Keaton

[dem629]

45. Selfish.

[Gemini Cat]

46. Confused.

A generation that spanned two decades. Neither end of the age spectrum had much in common with the other or even the middle. The issues that the class of '64 dealt with (Viet Nam for instance) was history to the class of '80. Both groups are considered Baby Boomers, but the experiences widely vary.

[madamesilverspurs]

48. Elvis

on velvet...

[bemildred]

49. Stereotype. nt

[MindPilot]

52. Word! x2 n/t

[HughMoran]

51. Badude

:)

[RagAss]

53. Generation Ego !!

[handmade34]

54. word-s?

...WWII vets coming home, GI Bill, suburbs, ticky, tacky little boxes, making babies, housewives and TV (with rabbit ears)

[carlyhippy]

55. hippies

awesome folks...it also drums up images of post-war southern california suburbs, beach parties, block parties where women in dresses and aprons grilled hamburgers while kids played badminton. Don't know why, I just associate this with baby boomers. Images like in the song "Plesant Valley Sunday"......

[Joe Fields]

56. rebellion

[Thothmes]

57. A good many young men killed or wounded

in Vietnam following the orders of the "Greater Generation"

[SmileyRose]

58. I wonder what the hell happened to us.

I look at my fellow boomers and wonder how on earth too many of us went from "I'd like to teach the world to sing." to "kill the A-Rabs"

[Echo In Light]

59. According to George Carlin: Häagen-Dazs, and fat-ass Dockers

[Raksha]

61. The first word that comes to my mind is "Me,"

because I'm a Baby Boomer. Not all that complicated, is it?

[Romulox]

63. Selfish. nt

[AngryAmish]

64. Greed

Consume, subjugate, destroy

[Ganja Ninja]

65. What happened?

We were so cool back when. Where the hell did all the Republicans come from?

[chaska]

67. Why is it okay...

to attack groups of people who, after all, are just a group of individuals, no different from any other group?

Substitute the term baby boomer with jew or black.

Too many of these anti-boomer threads lately. And there should be none.

[cherish44]

68. Yuppies

nt

[Echo In Light]

70. "My sister got lucky, married a yuppie. Took him for all he was worth..."

[Tashca]

73. Popeye...

[condoleeza]

74. integration

[calico1]

75. Generalizations...

And lots of them..

And often from people who consider themselves to be enlightened.

[Winterblues]

77. Vietnam

Been there done that...