Great article- thank you . Yes we have been played all along the way - I am 76 years now - and i look back and it's very clear although I am very thankful for my simple childhood. So thankful I am among "the awake" now.
On point.. I have to agree.. I do love me some boomer jokes but as a millennial I fell for endless combat tours overseas chasing enemies the CIA created for us to fight… reminds me of what my drill instructor made one of the recruits do… look into the mirror and scream..”I’m not the problem..you are!”
Great post! Have always heard the term baby boomers but a few years ago is when I started hearing all the complaints, blame, & even virulent hatred. I was shocked to see the date ranges and find that I'm a boomer on the lower end (1957). I'm really more of a Gen Jones without a lot in common with the older boomer generation. I also see that the younger end of the Silent Generation has more in common with the older boomers than they do with my parents who were upper Silent Gen. I noticed that people are always mistakenly calling someone 80 or early 80s, "old boomers". Technically, anyone 80+ is Silent Generation. But that just proves it's all a bunch of silly labels (((created & instigated))). I think the issue is more about liberals, feminists, socialists, communists. We really saw that take off in the 1960s, and sadly, the same, now old people, who thought they were brilliant young radicals out to change the world, are still parroting and championing that same b.s. Even though that b.s. contributed to the hellish nightmare we have now. So, those communist boomers who still think they are cutting edge & relevant, and bright young Kennedy Dems, do make me cringe. And having been in customer service positions with National Parks, in resort areas, I know how nauseatingly demanding and entitled some of them can be. But that would include parts of the Silent Generation. However, my friends and family in the boomer class are nothing like that. We were all raised as hard working, family oriented, respectful, mannerly, Christian. We deplored all the changes that were forced on us back in the 60s and 70s, and the creeping in of all this social justice, feminism, liberalism bull crap. But we were also fooled by a lot of things, and looking back it is so easy to see the lies and manipulation. How false and fake our world is, and (((who))) is controlling, manipulating, orchestrating it...for a very long time, with the end purpose being destruction. It wasn't always so obvious. The main thing that irritates me about the liberal portion of the boomer class, is they are still refusing to see how they were duped. They're still pushing for & supporting the evil nonsense that got us here! Reminds me of a recent video of 3 old white haired ladies & their feminist hubbies, crying, screeching, losing their minds over a rainbow crosswalk being removed. "They're just scraping it away like it's nothing." Yeah, kind of like those abortions you fanatically support. Kind of like old Hanoi Jane (who people call an old boomer but she's really Silent Gen). She's still pushing her communist rant even though the old hag never had to live under communism. In fact, lived a lavish life few of us could imagine, all gained through Capitalism and consumerism in the good ol' US of A! We've all been played. But I'm sad that the younger generations won't have the life or hopes that older generations had. Some of those older indoctrinated fools are partly to blame for helping to usher in the evils of communism, but it goes so much deeper & further back than even the silly boomer hippies. (But younger generations have jumped on the band wagon for things like lgbqtxyz++++, trans, furries, unlimited abortion, satanism, blm, Whitey is bad, hate your country, etc etc.) Boomers and the 60s revolution were just one of the many tools in a well laid out, long range plan.
Wow, what a fantastic comment. I’m Gen Jones too, 1956. I feel your ((( ))) LOL. And Hanoi Jane, yes. Yeh, all the sleeping Boomers still tooting the Kennedy Camelot and communist horns are pathetic. It’s like old farts who still wear the same hairdo they did in high school. Mentally challenged. Yes, we were all duped, but some of us woke up.
Boomers are the equivalent. of what happens when you feed a Labrador too much.
Millenials and Gen Z is result of what happens when you raise kids on screens.
Gen X is just some feral cynical step child born into the distrustful Divorce generation stuck between the two generations of winging labradors or wining digital poe faced doom scrollers.
Love it, great analogies. Makes me want to read your stuff. I see you write sci-fi. I mostly write sci-fi parables for my posts. You may like them. This was an unusual post for me, just a topic I felt passionate about.
Nice you have a sense of humor about yourself, but I still think your comment was hilarious, especially the Boomers are over fed Labradors part. I get it, you're a sinner, you misspelled a word.
Alan, I realize you've been replying to Saxxon here all along looking at the little line connecting the comments. I look at my comments mostly from the activity side panel on my home page, so I don't really see what they are linked to exactly all the time. I also get this is simply about a typo misspelling.
This was a great post and long overdue, you know, when you stack everything that’s shifted since, the economy, tech, culture, infrastructure, it starts to feel like Boomers lived in a different universe altogether. The trouble is, there’s no clear line that marks when their world ended and when ours began. What we call the present is a hybrid, made up of half of the past. Elements of the old Boomer world remain, the buildings, roads, bridges, and the subway, but the world around and beneath those things have completely changed. They came from a time when things evolved but stayed mostly familiar. Phones didn’t change much between the 1920s and the 1970s. Sure cars got more aerodynamic, fashion evolved, we put men on the moon, and pop culture moved along at a steady pace. Today, however in 2025, it’s the entire infrastructure of daily life that’s shifted, economic conditions especially.
The furniture of their world the neighborhoods, museums, parks, apartment complexes are all still standing, but the systems beneath them have been massively overhauled such that for many, they’re now completely out of reach. That bridge they remember from childhood is still there, but the toll to cross it has gone up. The museum they remember as a child costs a lot more to visit now. That apartment complex they remember living in back in the late 60s has been renovated, but they remember when the rent was $250 a month. They scrapped together pennies, did some bartending on the side, and managed to pay the rent. “Things in life can be hard, but you just have to set your mind to it, and you can make it,” they tell us.
In 2025, housing costs are obscene, global markets now reach down into neighborhoods like tendrils, distorting entire communities. Those modest brick homes that once housed the working class now go for millions. Want to head downtown? Better factor in congestion pricing, plus parking and crime, don’t forget the crime. Then there are the tent cities we have all seen them. “Sad” the Boomers say as we pass by believing their condition to be the result of a lack of ambition and moral character.
Back in their day, a bus driver and a teacher could meet, fall in love, get married, raise a family, buy a home, and save for retirement. For them, that was normal as it was for their parents. From their perspective, that was just the way the world worked. Today, those kinds of lives feel almost fictional by comparison. To us they sound like mythological stories of a bygone era on a distant world in some other kind of reality. What remains are fragments, broken echoes of a ghostlike past haunting our present. Those of us in other generations cannot at all relate to this world. We don’t see what they see; we live in the now.
The Boomers though, they can still see that world they remember. It’s layered over this one, like a phantom universe. To them things now just look shinier, taller, and nicer than they ever remembered. “Well, would you look at that,” they say in astonishment. “When did they put that building up?” To them new downtown construction, is a tangible sign of progress, proof that the bright future they were promised has finally arrived, a “New Tomorrow” is here. They look at the city now and think, “These young people have everything we didn’t. What’s stopping them?” “With such beautiful places to live now, how can these young people not work hard? Look at what they could have if only they would apply themselves.”
Other generations X, Y and Z we do not live in that phantom universe. We’re living in the harsh reality of the now. That beautiful new building the Boomers are admiring, the units in it start at $1.9 million and go up from there. Judging by the windows we see lit up at night, there may be three people living there. The rest are just investment properties, owned by overseas buyers who’ll never set foot in them and no, it doesn’t matter how hard we “apply ourselves.” We’re not getting into any of them, ever.
The world has changed, the economy, technology, the nature of work and our political climate. How we live, think, and exist all of it has dramatically changed and is changing even now at blinding speeds. The gap between generations isn’t just about age or generational differences, it’s about reality theirs and ours, half of their past that makes up our present. What’s needed now is empathy and perspective, not intergenerational warfare. Vilifying the Boomers won’t make the present reality any more bearable.
Generations need to open their eyes and learn how to see past these phantom worlds and witness the realities that other generations see. If we fail to at least try to understand those other perspectives, we will continue to roam around in our separate phantom universes, oblivious to the challenges and hardships of other generations.
This is so beautifully written. It should be a post of it’s own, you should put it up. As for me, I can’t stand the modern world. I don’t see promising progress. I see a generic, soulless, ugly techno nightmare that I’m repulsed by. It’s uninspired and uncreative architectural and landscape slop. Don’t even want to go anywhere anymore unless it’s nature, and even that is getting more and more invaded and destroyed. I also don’t see the younger generations having any advantage afforded them that would support them to succeed in today’s world. They are presented with nothing but obstacles and oppression by the parasites that wrote this script a long time ago. That’s where the whole generation infighting against generation operation is tragic. We are all being played by the same opponent, but can’t see it. The only hope is in unification and organized cooperation to overcome this. Thank you for appreciating my article. By the way, most of my posts are sci-fi parables, this one was just an anomaly. I see you write sci-fi, maybe you'd like some.
I reserve boomer blaming to fall upon the leftist hippies. I watched them vote for poison, pervert state and local politics with union money, massive overspending, welfare programs up the wazoo even for the tsunami of illegals they fought to bring (because the conservatives were out breeding them don’t you know…)
Cultural poison from drugs and free love to radical feminism, etc. everything was “not in my backyard“ including paying for their lifestyle. Always kicking the can down the road.
To be fair, every generation has its problems. All the current gender madness it’s not the boomers… But their radical left-wing indoctrination of the universities absolutely enabled it.
I see the problem not as boomers, but leftists. But the boomers have been in charge long enough today that the predominance of left-wing damage comes from boomers.
You realize you are describing the exact same politics and societal outcomes of the Z Gen leftists that pervades today’s societal landscape? It’s a much deeper agenda than a particular generation, which I realize you did point out. Blaming each other is the agenda of the ones who have been controlling this since Sumeria. It’s to distract, divide and conquer.
Each generation blames another because we live short lives which mostly see the damage done by the generation in charge. As Gen X, I saw my father and others enabling the damage. But I also saw the good boomers fighting the good fight against it. 🤷♂️
They just weren’t able to prevent it. Now we have the generations following living a lower quality of life than their parents or grandparents enjoyed.
This has all been planned since the time of Sumeria by a group of controlling parasites with long term goals. The general populace of mankind has been influenced by this and victim to it for thousands of years. It has nothing to do with the stereotype generational cover story, it’s distraction. They are just close to realizing their ultimate goal of complete control and slavery right now.
Born in 1953, I guess that makes me a boomer. But I’ve never wanted to “keep up with the Joneses.” Instead, I’ve always wanted to live sustainably, off-grid, in the safest situation I could find… for myself, my family, my friends, and my neighbors. I accomplished that. We all make our living from the land. We love music and most of us play or sing. We appreciate art, good food (we have incredible potlucks) and INTEGRITY. Gratitude is in our hearts. We stepped up to the plate when the community needs us and I personally am quite involved in trying to get the right people elected for our school boards local government state government. I know that that’s all sham but I work for conservatives anyway. We’re hoping to change the system. Who knows? In the meantime, we’re safe and we are enjoying our lives. I wouldn’t live in the city for all the money on earth.
Yes Thank you, I do. Came from a very abusive family worked my way up. I actually own an operator music therapy company, but I’m retired now and I just grow and sell food. Actually, I trade food. We have a market where we all trade with each other, no government involvement and it’s totally legal. Thanks for your article. That was a lot of insight you shared. I appreciate it.
Glad you liked it. I felt passionate about the topic. I’m from that weird late boomer niche - Generation Jones. I loved Mad Men, and the character Don Draper. Great writers to create such a personality and life. Technically he was The Silent Generation, born in 1926. There’s a stunning episode chronicling his childhood and early life called The Dick Whitman Chronicles. Anyway, it’s funny Draper was looked at as a boomer stereotype womanizing, drunkard narcissist.
Thank you for writing about the horrifying Boomer Derangement Syndrome(BDS.). I’m part of the sub group generation Jones. I’ve noticed that Most of the people that become Infected with BDS are truly damaged in some way, either by birth or the internet world. Some of my son’s friends went right from high school to well paying blue collar jobs, and bought houses during the last gasp of the economy. Although close to beinghighscool dropouts, they are now managing workplaces proficiently. Others in that group spent a ton of their parents money on University, and are among the underemployed deranged. The blame game is how they try to salvage their societal worth. And the controllers hand over the Boomers as fodder. It is so obvious that the controllers are fanning the flames to hasten the demise of the elderly “useless eaters.” Black Rock et al is salivating over the acquisition of the boomers assets and property. Generation X,Y,and Z are sadly mistaken if they think they’ll get ownership on the desired properties. They have been trolled and trashed.
No one is exempt from the creation of this failed society. We all played our part, every generation. Try having a sense of humor about yourself. FYI, my husband's Gen X daughter is a mud shark with a Sambo.
Very well described. Indeed, one agenda is simply being pushed after another, all controlled by a hegemon.
The narrative ends here with Generation Z – the end of the alphabet. So, it starts all over again.
Generation Alpha is used for 2013-2025. Generation Beta was declared for 2025 – coincidentally, in the second quarter of the century.
What's the point of all this generational logic anyway? Well, I think it's the communication strategy of the hegemon. The masses don't think anything of it. The elite, however, know perfectly well that this is a covert version of their vision and mission.
The universities will also want to fill the minds of this "generation" with the desired content.
Let's not forget that "generation" is an ambiguous word. We speak of a generation, and generating something is also a generation.
A phenomenon and an opportunity are revealed.
True ancestors hold a guiding thread, which they pass on to their children so that they, in turn, become ancestors and pass it on to their children.
Ancestors (German: Ahn-en) have an inkling (German: Ahn-ung). The word "ahnung" (intuition) comes from both "Wisse" (knowledge) and "divine." It's a combination of logos (intellect) and holistic reading with all the senses (typically referred to as the paranormal).
In the past, the transmission of all this was supported by sagas and fairy tales in the form of historical narratives.
The last major revival of this was by the Brothers Grimm (1812-1858). Norse mythology is also evergreen—just not widely known. Furthermore, we have been conditioned to disengage from reading and understanding symbols, allegories, and parables.
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings emerged as a more recent saga in 1955.
If you browse the children's books in a bookstore today, the shelves are full of new mystical stories and paranormal abilities and powers.
We hold everything in our hands and have our own guiding thread in Norse mythology, the Grimm fairy tales, and countless local legends. All of them convey profound wisdom and true, fundamental values.
Incidentally, there's a sharp divide with Eastern Europe, because these wisdoms are often still very much alive there.
This is a brilliant comment, more of a post unto itself. Love the way you pointed out the sequential alphabetizing of the generations ending with Z. A good place to initiate the great reset. I’ve always loved the Brothers Grimm. There’s so much truth and mysticism in children’s books and movies. Here is a link to a beautiful compilation of children’s movies about the North Pole, or Mount Meru called Journey to the Center of the Earth that you may enjoy (no relation to Jules Verne’s book).
BDS is the infantile tantrum of a lot of young and middle-aged people who can't accept responsibility for their own failures and shortcomings. It's easier to just blame the old people for everything. Just because I was able to buy a house thirty years ago doesn't mean I did anything to you, so quit whining and fuck off.
Great post. It offers a clear analysis of just how screwed up our society is, and why. Although I admire the honesty and intuition, I would like to see at least an offer of a possible solution, but that would require a general education with society that does not seem realistically attainable.
Nice history lesson. This is where you blame the snowflakes because boomers didn't stop the despots, right? The second you said woke, you showed that you are part of the problem.
You refuse to acknowledge that your generation didn't cut Regan off at the knees, just as gen z and millenials didn't cut Trump off. The difference? In the 80s, it was still possible to get an education without a mortgage worth of debt. You still had a living wage. You still had a reason to vote against piss on the poor (aka trickle down) economics.
But you can't see past the tip of your nose to realize the new generations are cooked before they get out of high school. There's no jobs beyond shit jobs to go to without an education, and an education costs far too much, and pays way too little.
But you were cooked too. The rich have been fucking us all since the 60s when they started outsourcing our economy. But they sold you the illusion that you could get rich if you just worked harder.
I watched my boomer parents work fucking hard and get fucked even harder by their employers, but they at least could afford shit.
I make more than my father did, and I can't afford shit. Because of Republican bullshit and this anti woke (known better as fuck the black and brown people) bullshit. If you actually understood what woke was in AAVE, you'd realize just how stupid you sound. But you spit the FoxLies narrative like venom. Ironic how the most aggressive antiamerican billionaire owns FoxNews.
The only minority that fucked you over was the billionaire class. And they aren't black and brown people. So get off your high horse and actually try to fucking understand that the capitalist lie is eating us all alive, and they want us at each other's throats so we're not at theirs.
Wake the fuck up and pull your head out of your ass "by the bootstraps" boomer.
Perhaps you missed the point that the post points out that everyone got screwed and the same people that screwed everyone have a propaganda operation going on to make everyone blame each other. Divide and conquer. That’s the cover used to hide and divert all the attention from the true controlling factions. This way no one ever does anything of real consequence to stop it. You’re falling right into this trap. Here’s a quote from the post I think you glossed over:
The Boomer Derangement Syndrome narrative is just the latest fad in the punching bag game. It’s another episode in the game show, What’s My Stereotype. It’s another excuse to help the controlling elites create division in the populace. You are being played. Nearly all humans for multiple generations are culpable for what’s happened to our world today. We have all been guilty of being selfish, greedy, materialistic, myopic imbeciles.
Who is this comment directed to? Did you actually even read this post or just get triggered by the title and go off on it? It has nothing to do with wanting the democratic party for anything, or pretty much anything political at all. I’m not advocating for anything you said. This was a pro boomer post defending boomers against all the ridiculous scapegoating and blame. Try again.
If you think more government is the answer then you’re dead wrong. You young commies think the system that’s lifted more out of poverty worldwide and created every wonder of the modern world should be torn down so you can live under constant surveillance and control by an all powerful but of course imaginarily benevolent government ruling class forget the image below. It’s where it always ends history shows. You youngsters are fucked I agree and we’re being distracted to blame each other I agree as well. But your aiming the blame at capitalism is how the ruling class takes even more freedom and wealth from us all. It’s what history has shown over and over.
The best allegory for this is the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. Not the new trash movie version either. Power always devolves into abuse and theft. Socialists and communists forget that what they are asking for is simply another class to rule them. What we should all want instead is radical uninhibited freedom and liberty for everyone.
We had a good run before the creation of the fed, the global bankers world wars and fiat currency. You’d be surprised how many conservatives true small limited government conservatives agree and understand your situation and frustrations with the system and share them. We would disagree with the solution because we have seen and read Solzhenitsyn and the gulags of the Soviet Union and see that replacing one corrupt system with an all powerful government leads to just more hell on earth as well. That is what socialism leads to history has shown again and again. Human nature simply doesn’t allow it to work without mass murder and collapse with just a different not better ruling elite. Cheers and just know we want the same thing for you! We just disagree on the path to get there…
Who is this comment directed to? Did you actually even read this post or just get triggered by the title and go off on it? It has nothing to do with wanting more government, or communism, or pretty much anything you said. I’m not advocating for anything you said, and I’m not young. This was a pro boomer post defending boomers against all the ridiculous scapegoating and blame. Try again.
My understanding is that it goes Boomer -> Millennial and Silent -> X'er very loosely. The idea is that if a 30yr old boomer has a 1 yr old millennial, someone has to be that 15yr old babysitting and that's the X'er in this case.
So, did some math - the youngest X Gen was born in 1980. Say an average age to have a kid is 22. A Boomer born in 1958 having a kid at 22 would be 1980, giving birth to the youngest X Gen. That means that Boomers born between 1946 and 1958, 12 years, having kids at 22, would have all had X Gen kids. That leaves the Boomers from 1959 to 1964, 6 years, having kids at 22, would have millennial kids. That’s twice as many years worth of Boomers likely to have X Gen kids, which is a predominance. Make it having kids at 25 and it’s still an even 9 & 9 years time span split. The weighted average of age that a woman had a kid in 1985 is 24.9.
That sounds like every GenX guy I know who divorced their GenX wife around 2011, recovered from a case of Sudden Onset Millennial Fever and then remarried the same GenX wife again in 2019.
Great article- thank you . Yes we have been played all along the way - I am 76 years now - and i look back and it's very clear although I am very thankful for my simple childhood. So thankful I am among "the awake" now.
On point.. I have to agree.. I do love me some boomer jokes but as a millennial I fell for endless combat tours overseas chasing enemies the CIA created for us to fight… reminds me of what my drill instructor made one of the recruits do… look into the mirror and scream..”I’m not the problem..you are!”
Neocon wars. And the Neocons are mainly Ex-Trotskyite Jews.
Great post! Have always heard the term baby boomers but a few years ago is when I started hearing all the complaints, blame, & even virulent hatred. I was shocked to see the date ranges and find that I'm a boomer on the lower end (1957). I'm really more of a Gen Jones without a lot in common with the older boomer generation. I also see that the younger end of the Silent Generation has more in common with the older boomers than they do with my parents who were upper Silent Gen. I noticed that people are always mistakenly calling someone 80 or early 80s, "old boomers". Technically, anyone 80+ is Silent Generation. But that just proves it's all a bunch of silly labels (((created & instigated))). I think the issue is more about liberals, feminists, socialists, communists. We really saw that take off in the 1960s, and sadly, the same, now old people, who thought they were brilliant young radicals out to change the world, are still parroting and championing that same b.s. Even though that b.s. contributed to the hellish nightmare we have now. So, those communist boomers who still think they are cutting edge & relevant, and bright young Kennedy Dems, do make me cringe. And having been in customer service positions with National Parks, in resort areas, I know how nauseatingly demanding and entitled some of them can be. But that would include parts of the Silent Generation. However, my friends and family in the boomer class are nothing like that. We were all raised as hard working, family oriented, respectful, mannerly, Christian. We deplored all the changes that were forced on us back in the 60s and 70s, and the creeping in of all this social justice, feminism, liberalism bull crap. But we were also fooled by a lot of things, and looking back it is so easy to see the lies and manipulation. How false and fake our world is, and (((who))) is controlling, manipulating, orchestrating it...for a very long time, with the end purpose being destruction. It wasn't always so obvious. The main thing that irritates me about the liberal portion of the boomer class, is they are still refusing to see how they were duped. They're still pushing for & supporting the evil nonsense that got us here! Reminds me of a recent video of 3 old white haired ladies & their feminist hubbies, crying, screeching, losing their minds over a rainbow crosswalk being removed. "They're just scraping it away like it's nothing." Yeah, kind of like those abortions you fanatically support. Kind of like old Hanoi Jane (who people call an old boomer but she's really Silent Gen). She's still pushing her communist rant even though the old hag never had to live under communism. In fact, lived a lavish life few of us could imagine, all gained through Capitalism and consumerism in the good ol' US of A! We've all been played. But I'm sad that the younger generations won't have the life or hopes that older generations had. Some of those older indoctrinated fools are partly to blame for helping to usher in the evils of communism, but it goes so much deeper & further back than even the silly boomer hippies. (But younger generations have jumped on the band wagon for things like lgbqtxyz++++, trans, furries, unlimited abortion, satanism, blm, Whitey is bad, hate your country, etc etc.) Boomers and the 60s revolution were just one of the many tools in a well laid out, long range plan.
Wow, what a fantastic comment. I’m Gen Jones too, 1956. I feel your ((( ))) LOL. And Hanoi Jane, yes. Yeh, all the sleeping Boomers still tooting the Kennedy Camelot and communist horns are pathetic. It’s like old farts who still wear the same hairdo they did in high school. Mentally challenged. Yes, we were all duped, but some of us woke up.
Boomers are the equivalent. of what happens when you feed a Labrador too much.
Millenials and Gen Z is result of what happens when you raise kids on screens.
Gen X is just some feral cynical step child born into the distrustful Divorce generation stuck between the two generations of winging labradors or wining digital poe faced doom scrollers.
Love it, great analogies. Makes me want to read your stuff. I see you write sci-fi. I mostly write sci-fi parables for my posts. You may like them. This was an unusual post for me, just a topic I felt passionate about.
Cheers yeh thanks… wow I like your perspective… nicely written piece and yeh I do alot of writing on social theory and philosophy of modern times.
You can download my free ebooks on my web page if your interested. UU is my mind bending one.
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Im dyslexic idiot.
Nice you have a sense of humor about yourself, but I still think your comment was hilarious, especially the Boomers are over fed Labradors part. I get it, you're a sinner, you misspelled a word.
Alan, I realize you've been replying to Saxxon here all along looking at the little line connecting the comments. I look at my comments mostly from the activity side panel on my home page, so I don't really see what they are linked to exactly all the time. I also get this is simply about a typo misspelling.
This was a great post and long overdue, you know, when you stack everything that’s shifted since, the economy, tech, culture, infrastructure, it starts to feel like Boomers lived in a different universe altogether. The trouble is, there’s no clear line that marks when their world ended and when ours began. What we call the present is a hybrid, made up of half of the past. Elements of the old Boomer world remain, the buildings, roads, bridges, and the subway, but the world around and beneath those things have completely changed. They came from a time when things evolved but stayed mostly familiar. Phones didn’t change much between the 1920s and the 1970s. Sure cars got more aerodynamic, fashion evolved, we put men on the moon, and pop culture moved along at a steady pace. Today, however in 2025, it’s the entire infrastructure of daily life that’s shifted, economic conditions especially.
The furniture of their world the neighborhoods, museums, parks, apartment complexes are all still standing, but the systems beneath them have been massively overhauled such that for many, they’re now completely out of reach. That bridge they remember from childhood is still there, but the toll to cross it has gone up. The museum they remember as a child costs a lot more to visit now. That apartment complex they remember living in back in the late 60s has been renovated, but they remember when the rent was $250 a month. They scrapped together pennies, did some bartending on the side, and managed to pay the rent. “Things in life can be hard, but you just have to set your mind to it, and you can make it,” they tell us.
In 2025, housing costs are obscene, global markets now reach down into neighborhoods like tendrils, distorting entire communities. Those modest brick homes that once housed the working class now go for millions. Want to head downtown? Better factor in congestion pricing, plus parking and crime, don’t forget the crime. Then there are the tent cities we have all seen them. “Sad” the Boomers say as we pass by believing their condition to be the result of a lack of ambition and moral character.
Back in their day, a bus driver and a teacher could meet, fall in love, get married, raise a family, buy a home, and save for retirement. For them, that was normal as it was for their parents. From their perspective, that was just the way the world worked. Today, those kinds of lives feel almost fictional by comparison. To us they sound like mythological stories of a bygone era on a distant world in some other kind of reality. What remains are fragments, broken echoes of a ghostlike past haunting our present. Those of us in other generations cannot at all relate to this world. We don’t see what they see; we live in the now.
The Boomers though, they can still see that world they remember. It’s layered over this one, like a phantom universe. To them things now just look shinier, taller, and nicer than they ever remembered. “Well, would you look at that,” they say in astonishment. “When did they put that building up?” To them new downtown construction, is a tangible sign of progress, proof that the bright future they were promised has finally arrived, a “New Tomorrow” is here. They look at the city now and think, “These young people have everything we didn’t. What’s stopping them?” “With such beautiful places to live now, how can these young people not work hard? Look at what they could have if only they would apply themselves.”
Other generations X, Y and Z we do not live in that phantom universe. We’re living in the harsh reality of the now. That beautiful new building the Boomers are admiring, the units in it start at $1.9 million and go up from there. Judging by the windows we see lit up at night, there may be three people living there. The rest are just investment properties, owned by overseas buyers who’ll never set foot in them and no, it doesn’t matter how hard we “apply ourselves.” We’re not getting into any of them, ever.
The world has changed, the economy, technology, the nature of work and our political climate. How we live, think, and exist all of it has dramatically changed and is changing even now at blinding speeds. The gap between generations isn’t just about age or generational differences, it’s about reality theirs and ours, half of their past that makes up our present. What’s needed now is empathy and perspective, not intergenerational warfare. Vilifying the Boomers won’t make the present reality any more bearable.
Generations need to open their eyes and learn how to see past these phantom worlds and witness the realities that other generations see. If we fail to at least try to understand those other perspectives, we will continue to roam around in our separate phantom universes, oblivious to the challenges and hardships of other generations.
This is so beautifully written. It should be a post of it’s own, you should put it up. As for me, I can’t stand the modern world. I don’t see promising progress. I see a generic, soulless, ugly techno nightmare that I’m repulsed by. It’s uninspired and uncreative architectural and landscape slop. Don’t even want to go anywhere anymore unless it’s nature, and even that is getting more and more invaded and destroyed. I also don’t see the younger generations having any advantage afforded them that would support them to succeed in today’s world. They are presented with nothing but obstacles and oppression by the parasites that wrote this script a long time ago. That’s where the whole generation infighting against generation operation is tragic. We are all being played by the same opponent, but can’t see it. The only hope is in unification and organized cooperation to overcome this. Thank you for appreciating my article. By the way, most of my posts are sci-fi parables, this one was just an anomaly. I see you write sci-fi, maybe you'd like some.
It is pretty much the world we feared was coming; I wrote about it a bit here.
The Rain Drenched Beauty Of Cyberpunk
https://kennetheharrell.substack.com/p/the-rain-drenched-beauty-of-cyberpunk
I reserve boomer blaming to fall upon the leftist hippies. I watched them vote for poison, pervert state and local politics with union money, massive overspending, welfare programs up the wazoo even for the tsunami of illegals they fought to bring (because the conservatives were out breeding them don’t you know…)
Cultural poison from drugs and free love to radical feminism, etc. everything was “not in my backyard“ including paying for their lifestyle. Always kicking the can down the road.
To be fair, every generation has its problems. All the current gender madness it’s not the boomers… But their radical left-wing indoctrination of the universities absolutely enabled it.
I see the problem not as boomers, but leftists. But the boomers have been in charge long enough today that the predominance of left-wing damage comes from boomers.
You realize you are describing the exact same politics and societal outcomes of the Z Gen leftists that pervades today’s societal landscape? It’s a much deeper agenda than a particular generation, which I realize you did point out. Blaming each other is the agenda of the ones who have been controlling this since Sumeria. It’s to distract, divide and conquer.
Each generation blames another because we live short lives which mostly see the damage done by the generation in charge. As Gen X, I saw my father and others enabling the damage. But I also saw the good boomers fighting the good fight against it. 🤷♂️
They just weren’t able to prevent it. Now we have the generations following living a lower quality of life than their parents or grandparents enjoyed.
This has all been planned since the time of Sumeria by a group of controlling parasites with long term goals. The general populace of mankind has been influenced by this and victim to it for thousands of years. It has nothing to do with the stereotype generational cover story, it’s distraction. They are just close to realizing their ultimate goal of complete control and slavery right now.
Born in 1953, I guess that makes me a boomer. But I’ve never wanted to “keep up with the Joneses.” Instead, I’ve always wanted to live sustainably, off-grid, in the safest situation I could find… for myself, my family, my friends, and my neighbors. I accomplished that. We all make our living from the land. We love music and most of us play or sing. We appreciate art, good food (we have incredible potlucks) and INTEGRITY. Gratitude is in our hearts. We stepped up to the plate when the community needs us and I personally am quite involved in trying to get the right people elected for our school boards local government state government. I know that that’s all sham but I work for conservatives anyway. We’re hoping to change the system. Who knows? In the meantime, we’re safe and we are enjoying our lives. I wouldn’t live in the city for all the money on earth.
Many boomers were non material, hippies, back to the land, natural living types. I’m one of them. Sounds like you have a good life.
Yes Thank you, I do. Came from a very abusive family worked my way up. I actually own an operator music therapy company, but I’m retired now and I just grow and sell food. Actually, I trade food. We have a market where we all trade with each other, no government involvement and it’s totally legal. Thanks for your article. That was a lot of insight you shared. I appreciate it.
Great essay!
It’s ironic that Don Draper was portrayed as having fought in the Korean War. Draper was a bastard, an orphan, in the trough between two great waves.
He was no Boomer. Maybe that’s why he and his ilk could read them so well.
Glad you liked it. I felt passionate about the topic. I’m from that weird late boomer niche - Generation Jones. I loved Mad Men, and the character Don Draper. Great writers to create such a personality and life. Technically he was The Silent Generation, born in 1926. There’s a stunning episode chronicling his childhood and early life called The Dick Whitman Chronicles. Anyway, it’s funny Draper was looked at as a boomer stereotype womanizing, drunkard narcissist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhYTRYjPWdk
Thank you for writing about the horrifying Boomer Derangement Syndrome(BDS.). I’m part of the sub group generation Jones. I’ve noticed that Most of the people that become Infected with BDS are truly damaged in some way, either by birth or the internet world. Some of my son’s friends went right from high school to well paying blue collar jobs, and bought houses during the last gasp of the economy. Although close to beinghighscool dropouts, they are now managing workplaces proficiently. Others in that group spent a ton of their parents money on University, and are among the underemployed deranged. The blame game is how they try to salvage their societal worth. And the controllers hand over the Boomers as fodder. It is so obvious that the controllers are fanning the flames to hasten the demise of the elderly “useless eaters.” Black Rock et al is salivating over the acquisition of the boomers assets and property. Generation X,Y,and Z are sadly mistaken if they think they’ll get ownership on the desired properties. They have been trolled and trashed.
This is SO well put! I’m Generation Jones as well. Yes, the others are all singing the the tune And The blame Goes On.
Gen X has nothing in common with Gen Z, except some of us misparented them.
I had the Little Black Sambo box set when I was little. I sold them for $100 even all marked up with crayons.
It was a fun read til you lumped X in with Z & Y.
No one is exempt from the creation of this failed society. We all played our part, every generation. Try having a sense of humor about yourself. FYI, my husband's Gen X daughter is a mud shark with a Sambo.
The Generation Plan
Very well described. Indeed, one agenda is simply being pushed after another, all controlled by a hegemon.
The narrative ends here with Generation Z – the end of the alphabet. So, it starts all over again.
Generation Alpha is used for 2013-2025. Generation Beta was declared for 2025 – coincidentally, in the second quarter of the century.
What's the point of all this generational logic anyway? Well, I think it's the communication strategy of the hegemon. The masses don't think anything of it. The elite, however, know perfectly well that this is a covert version of their vision and mission.
The universities will also want to fill the minds of this "generation" with the desired content.
Let's not forget that "generation" is an ambiguous word. We speak of a generation, and generating something is also a generation.
A phenomenon and an opportunity are revealed.
True ancestors hold a guiding thread, which they pass on to their children so that they, in turn, become ancestors and pass it on to their children.
Ancestors (German: Ahn-en) have an inkling (German: Ahn-ung). The word "ahnung" (intuition) comes from both "Wisse" (knowledge) and "divine." It's a combination of logos (intellect) and holistic reading with all the senses (typically referred to as the paranormal).
In the past, the transmission of all this was supported by sagas and fairy tales in the form of historical narratives.
The last major revival of this was by the Brothers Grimm (1812-1858). Norse mythology is also evergreen—just not widely known. Furthermore, we have been conditioned to disengage from reading and understanding symbols, allegories, and parables.
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings emerged as a more recent saga in 1955.
If you browse the children's books in a bookstore today, the shelves are full of new mystical stories and paranormal abilities and powers.
We hold everything in our hands and have our own guiding thread in Norse mythology, the Grimm fairy tales, and countless local legends. All of them convey profound wisdom and true, fundamental values.
Incidentally, there's a sharp divide with Eastern Europe, because these wisdoms are often still very much alive there.
This is a brilliant comment, more of a post unto itself. Love the way you pointed out the sequential alphabetizing of the generations ending with Z. A good place to initiate the great reset. I’ve always loved the Brothers Grimm. There’s so much truth and mysticism in children’s books and movies. Here is a link to a beautiful compilation of children’s movies about the North Pole, or Mount Meru called Journey to the Center of the Earth that you may enjoy (no relation to Jules Verne’s book).
https://substack.com/@quantumanimation/p-151722400
Thanks
and more thanks for the compilation link
BDS is the infantile tantrum of a lot of young and middle-aged people who can't accept responsibility for their own failures and shortcomings. It's easier to just blame the old people for everything. Just because I was able to buy a house thirty years ago doesn't mean I did anything to you, so quit whining and fuck off.
Love it, infantile tantrum indeed.
Great post. It offers a clear analysis of just how screwed up our society is, and why. Although I admire the honesty and intuition, I would like to see at least an offer of a possible solution, but that would require a general education with society that does not seem realistically attainable.
Glad you likes it. I find offering solutions at the end of posts about hopeless situations to be tokenism, so I don’ do it.
Boomers suck - so do all the other iterations of people catalogued by generation for the convenience of the advertising industry and their customers.
This is the case for one simple reason - humanity sucks and has since the start. Deal with it.
Ah but my dear Dan, didn’t get from my lambasting of all the generations that I too think humanity sucks? I was lampooning stereotypes. Deal with it.
I'm beginning to think that blacks were the real Trojan Horse.
Look one layer deeper to see who's running them. Perhaps the (((ones who like concord grape wine and smoked salmon))).
Wow! That's harsh. I blame myself for being gullible. What will I fall for next? I do own a tiny fraction of one Bitcoin?
We all fell for some aspect of the operation at some time or another. Maybe several.
Nice history lesson. This is where you blame the snowflakes because boomers didn't stop the despots, right? The second you said woke, you showed that you are part of the problem.
You refuse to acknowledge that your generation didn't cut Regan off at the knees, just as gen z and millenials didn't cut Trump off. The difference? In the 80s, it was still possible to get an education without a mortgage worth of debt. You still had a living wage. You still had a reason to vote against piss on the poor (aka trickle down) economics.
But you can't see past the tip of your nose to realize the new generations are cooked before they get out of high school. There's no jobs beyond shit jobs to go to without an education, and an education costs far too much, and pays way too little.
But you were cooked too. The rich have been fucking us all since the 60s when they started outsourcing our economy. But they sold you the illusion that you could get rich if you just worked harder.
I watched my boomer parents work fucking hard and get fucked even harder by their employers, but they at least could afford shit.
I make more than my father did, and I can't afford shit. Because of Republican bullshit and this anti woke (known better as fuck the black and brown people) bullshit. If you actually understood what woke was in AAVE, you'd realize just how stupid you sound. But you spit the FoxLies narrative like venom. Ironic how the most aggressive antiamerican billionaire owns FoxNews.
The only minority that fucked you over was the billionaire class. And they aren't black and brown people. So get off your high horse and actually try to fucking understand that the capitalist lie is eating us all alive, and they want us at each other's throats so we're not at theirs.
Wake the fuck up and pull your head out of your ass "by the bootstraps" boomer.
Perhaps you missed the point that the post points out that everyone got screwed and the same people that screwed everyone have a propaganda operation going on to make everyone blame each other. Divide and conquer. That’s the cover used to hide and divert all the attention from the true controlling factions. This way no one ever does anything of real consequence to stop it. You’re falling right into this trap. Here’s a quote from the post I think you glossed over:
The Boomer Derangement Syndrome narrative is just the latest fad in the punching bag game. It’s another episode in the game show, What’s My Stereotype. It’s another excuse to help the controlling elites create division in the populace. You are being played. Nearly all humans for multiple generations are culpable for what’s happened to our world today. We have all been guilty of being selfish, greedy, materialistic, myopic imbeciles.
If you think the Demarxocrat party is going to save you, you may as well go out back and take yourself out.
Who is this comment directed to? Did you actually even read this post or just get triggered by the title and go off on it? It has nothing to do with wanting the democratic party for anything, or pretty much anything political at all. I’m not advocating for anything you said. This was a pro boomer post defending boomers against all the ridiculous scapegoating and blame. Try again.
If you think more government is the answer then you’re dead wrong. You young commies think the system that’s lifted more out of poverty worldwide and created every wonder of the modern world should be torn down so you can live under constant surveillance and control by an all powerful but of course imaginarily benevolent government ruling class forget the image below. It’s where it always ends history shows. You youngsters are fucked I agree and we’re being distracted to blame each other I agree as well. But your aiming the blame at capitalism is how the ruling class takes even more freedom and wealth from us all. It’s what history has shown over and over.
The best allegory for this is the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. Not the new trash movie version either. Power always devolves into abuse and theft. Socialists and communists forget that what they are asking for is simply another class to rule them. What we should all want instead is radical uninhibited freedom and liberty for everyone.
We had a good run before the creation of the fed, the global bankers world wars and fiat currency. You’d be surprised how many conservatives true small limited government conservatives agree and understand your situation and frustrations with the system and share them. We would disagree with the solution because we have seen and read Solzhenitsyn and the gulags of the Soviet Union and see that replacing one corrupt system with an all powerful government leads to just more hell on earth as well. That is what socialism leads to history has shown again and again. Human nature simply doesn’t allow it to work without mass murder and collapse with just a different not better ruling elite. Cheers and just know we want the same thing for you! We just disagree on the path to get there…
Who is this comment directed to? Did you actually even read this post or just get triggered by the title and go off on it? It has nothing to do with wanting more government, or communism, or pretty much anything you said. I’m not advocating for anything you said, and I’m not young. This was a pro boomer post defending boomers against all the ridiculous scapegoating and blame. Try again.
The comment replies to syndicated entropy ‘s comment the lines on the left are there to help you.
I’m just reading this in my activity section, haven’t gone into the post yet to se the thread. I’ll check it out.
Yes, I see now.
>”Boomer’s don’t hate their ki-”
I believe the X Gen are the predominant kids of the Boomers. The millennials would be their grand kids.
My understanding is that it goes Boomer -> Millennial and Silent -> X'er very loosely. The idea is that if a 30yr old boomer has a 1 yr old millennial, someone has to be that 15yr old babysitting and that's the X'er in this case.
So, did some math - the youngest X Gen was born in 1980. Say an average age to have a kid is 22. A Boomer born in 1958 having a kid at 22 would be 1980, giving birth to the youngest X Gen. That means that Boomers born between 1946 and 1958, 12 years, having kids at 22, would have all had X Gen kids. That leaves the Boomers from 1959 to 1964, 6 years, having kids at 22, would have millennial kids. That’s twice as many years worth of Boomers likely to have X Gen kids, which is a predominance. Make it having kids at 25 and it’s still an even 9 & 9 years time span split. The weighted average of age that a woman had a kid in 1985 is 24.9.
Whatever. My Boomer husband has an X Gen kid.
That sounds like every GenX guy I know who divorced their GenX wife around 2011, recovered from a case of Sudden Onset Millennial Fever and then remarried the same GenX wife again in 2019.