That country is a cesspit of morons who can’t even figure out sanitation, the economy or how to run a country successfully. It’s fine, nobody really cares what people from India have to say. Something that young people around the world have rallied against, in climate strikes that Boomers dissed “as useless millennial activism.” And why are bats coming closer and closer to human habitation? Because of deforestation. It’s no secret that COVID-19 most likely moved from bats to pangolins to humans. Frankly, the backlash against this blame was a long time coming.Īnd now that coronavirus has reared its ugly head, we are once again seeing the generational rift between Boomers and “millennials”. The young and their new ideas are even being blamed for the rise of the Right-Wing around the world. Young people are blamed for everything from an economic downturn to the breakdown of marriage (an institution that needs a massive overhaul anyway).
That’s why Boomers hate Greta Thunberg.Ĭloser home, in India, when finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman blamed “millennials” for the automobile industry slowdown, it once again threw into stark relief that the Boomers just don’t get it. But their children and grandchildren will be left behind, picking up the pieces of the world they ruined because of their denial of change and crisis, their ostrich-like unwillingness to engage with a new world because it terrifies them. Most world leaders are from the Boomer generation, both in terms of age and mindset, and they will soon be irrelevant and eventually, gone, a fact they hate to be reminded of. When Greta Thunberg repeatedly thundered “How dare you?” at world leaders, what irked many Boomers was that she was reminding them to think beyond themselves, to think about future generations. They diss them because they’re afraid of their own growing irrelevance. They will be driving India’s economy soonīoomers diss these efforts because they’re afraid of them.
Yes, creating prosperity mattered to the Boomers, but the young insist on sustainable prosperity and if the Boomers can’t find it in them to support these efforts, they could at least not actively diss them.Īlso read: Don’t hate millennials for not buying cars. They are tired of the Boomers standing in the way. Be it on the streets, through Instagram fund-raisers for the bushfires in Australia, organising donation drives of sanitary pads, food and medicines to areas in Delhi affected by communal riots, or fighting to save trees, glaciers, birds and polar bears, they are doing their best. They are simply doing their best to salvage what they can. Because of Boomers’ lifestyle and political cjoices, young people are now saddled with a job and real-estate market they didn’t ask for, with a dying planet and an authoritarian rightward political swing. Young people respond to this dismissiveness in the way they know best - through memes, like Ok Boomer, which mimics that same dismissiveness and throws it right back at the Boomer. It calls out the older generation’s unwillingness to see that the world has changed and that not all the old rules still apply. All he has to do is wave his hand dismissively at you when you argue, and lecture you about how the world works because he knows best.
But then, since when does a Boomer, especially a man, care about that? To him, everyone and everything that came after him is young, naïve, not as good. Never mind the fact that a millennial is technically someone born anywhere between the early 1980s and the mid-90s, after which come at least two more generations. The typical Boomer, for example, is generally dismissive of anyone under the age of 40 as a clueless and entitled “millennial”. The use of the term as a pejorative, though, has less to do with age and more to do with a certain mindset that most people above a certain age are unwilling to change. Jaggi Vasudev needs to shut up on things he has no clue about But today, it has come to mean business-as-usual status quoists.Īlso read: Uncle, please sit. The generation was defined by post-war hope, stability, and conspicuous-consumption prosperity. But first, who exactly is a Boomer? Technically, Baby Boomers are the post- World War II generation, born between 1946 to 1964 and named for its contribution to baby-making and regenerating a world that was ravaged by war.
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