Tuesday, June 08, 2004
You Get The Children That You Raised
The parents of the Boomers, WWII and the generation that followed, could not contained their anger at their children when they started to grow their hair long, burn their draft cards, and smoke dope. Their children protested and criticized every thing that the parents believed in.
These parents learned to hate youth; which at that time meant their children, but to this day they still resent young people. These parents could not understand how could they have raised such a bunch of un-American crowd.
The way they did it was by raising them with total faith for the American traditions of liberty, equality, and justice. After WWII, these parents put much of their hope for a better world in their children.
The result was a group of confident, optimistic, and idealistic children.
The children grew up to discover that the United States was not all pure and noble. Their parents, after living in the Depression and WWII, understood that this is reality, but their children would not stand for the ugliness of the world. The world had to change to fit their idealized America of 1950s TV and Hollywood. And the change had to be drastic and immediate.
The Boomers were also a group of cocky, self-aggrandizing, and self-righteous children. These negative traits are the payoff for having confident, optimistic, and idealistic men and women.
These parents learned to hate youth; which at that time meant their children, but to this day they still resent young people. These parents could not understand how could they have raised such a bunch of un-American crowd.
The way they did it was by raising them with total faith for the American traditions of liberty, equality, and justice. After WWII, these parents put much of their hope for a better world in their children.
The result was a group of confident, optimistic, and idealistic children.
The children grew up to discover that the United States was not all pure and noble. Their parents, after living in the Depression and WWII, understood that this is reality, but their children would not stand for the ugliness of the world. The world had to change to fit their idealized America of 1950s TV and Hollywood. And the change had to be drastic and immediate.
The Boomers were also a group of cocky, self-aggrandizing, and self-righteous children. These negative traits are the payoff for having confident, optimistic, and idealistic men and women.
