It's Not All the Bitter Boomers' Fault

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I’ve just finished reading Boomers, Helen Andrews’ send-up of her parents’ generation. My parents are Boomers too, but I’m laughing a little, because her assessment is almost exactly the opposite of mine. She blames the Boomers for, well, pretty much everything that’s wrong with modern life, but especially neoliberalism, technocracy, and politically-correct pop culture. It’s a rehash of all the stuff the populist right normally decries, presented as hate mail for the Boomers.