There’s a similar conversation going on over on Facebook (probaby a bunch of them, actually), and the writer Eleanor Arnason posted this comment, which I’m reposting here, with her permission:
“I’m not in the Boomer generation, due to being too old. Mostly the Boomers did what most Americans do: worked hard and consumed, thus maintaining the American economy. Their failing was the typical American failing: they either ignored politics or listened to the lies of politicians and pundits, and they accepted society as it was. But in among the good, hard working, consuming Americans, were people active in civil rights, the anti-war movement, Gay Liberation, Act Up, the Second Wave of Feminism, the environmental movement, the South Africa divestment movement, Witnesses for Peace… Some of these people have grown old and conservative or given up on politics in despair. Others have held on to their original opinions. Age grades do not tell you much about people, except how old they are. I am now going to read a book by Mike Davis, who is spending his retirement reading (and writing about) Marx.”
