tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post1062267318948110001..comments2024-03-21T22:36:54.451-04:00Comments on HISTORIES OF THINGS TO COME: Boomer BacklashLC Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-61008600479438526502015-11-03T23:28:43.346-05:002015-11-03T23:28:43.346-05:00Hi Dave, Yes this is also a problem of the mass me...Hi Dave, Yes this is also a problem of the mass media though, going back to WWII. You might say the Boomers were the first generation to have their group identity crafted by mass media messages, and they for the most part bought the message. Mass labeling is very pernicious, even dangerous. I see it as a product of German labeling of the Jews in the Second World War, then a lot of propaganda techniques were carried into the mainstream popular global cultures in the decades that followed. Can you convince a group of people who have nothing in common except a twenty-five year age span that they have a common identity and mentality via commercialism? The answer was a very unfortunate yes. It is amazing that Generation X's allergy to this social conditioning led to them being labeled as 'failures' which in a way they were because they refused to conform to the messages handed to them. But then they were labeled as non-conformists. Our challenge as members of ANY generation these days is to understand that these sometime-social realities are nevertheless a larger media problem, a result of engaging with communications in ways never before experienced. We do not need to believe in or accept the collective labels even when they sometimes sadly fit. We can reject them. We can question our media-conditioned prejudices in order to conciliate between generations and remedy many of the ills of society. Perhaps we cannot manage this with all Boomers, but we can with some, and I have tried to reach out to members of Gen Y, with mixed results.LC Douglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-51039071661727643882015-11-03T12:38:05.922-05:002015-11-03T12:38:05.922-05:00Agree with many things in this article. My bigges... Agree with many things in this article. My biggest frustration is the Boomer's inability to acknowledge their own role and responsibility to the problems of the Generations that followed them. In addition to the Boomer's greed and narcissismTanzaniadavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06285506820592966392noreply@blogger.com