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 Post subject: When Boomers Rule The World - Again
PostPosted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 6:22 pm 
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Turns out that Baby Boomers still prefer their pop culture Caucasian--and their choice of reading self-aggrandizing.
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"And so, in 2015, boomers are in the midst of a 21st-century revival of the entertainment that defined their youth: film, rock and roll, and TV. James Taylor, Fleetwood Mac, and the Rolling Stones tour regularly. Bruce Springsteen, 65, continues to release new albums about his experiences of getting older and his refusal to be pushed aside. Rolling Stone, whose editor-in-chief Jann Wenner is 70, continues to chronicle these rockers religiously."
http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/ra ... again/262/

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 10:18 pm 
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From your intro, I expected the article to be some millennial writer railing against older rock musicians, but it's not that at all. It's a pretty positive story about how people are continuing to pursue their interests at later ages than earlier generations did:

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Boomers are the first generation on the planet to get to age 60 and still see a long runway ahead.

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 Post subject: When Boomers Rule The World - Again
PostPosted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 12:01 am 
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Linda wrote:
From your intro, I expected the article to be some millennial writer railing against older rock musicians, but it's not that at all. It's a pretty positive story about how people are continuing to pursue their interests at later ages than earlier generations did:

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Boomers are the first generation on the planet to get to age 60 and still see a long runway ahead.

The problem is that everybody younger than the baby boomers is seeing how one generation can screw things up for everybody who comes after them. Let's see...government shutdowns, bailouts, hedge funds, outsourcing, endless bickering over bullshit partisan politics...the runway is way too long.

At least they have the courtesy to weep for our nation's youth.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 3:16 pm 
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When the Chuck Berry film Hail Hail Rock And Roll came out, wasn't it a pretty big deal back then that he was still reelin' and rockin' and the ripe old age of 60?

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 9:39 pm 
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"When Boomers Rule The World - Again"

Maybe, just maybe we'll get it right this time................ :sigh:

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 9:40 pm 
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Stumpy Joe wrote:
Linda wrote:
From your intro, I expected the article to be some millennial writer railing against older rock musicians, but it's not that at all. It's a pretty positive story about how people are continuing to pursue their interests at later ages than earlier generations did:

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Boomers are the first generation on the planet to get to age 60 and still see a long runway ahead.

The problem is that everybody younger than the baby boomers is seeing how one generation can screw things up for everybody who comes after them. Let's see...government shutdowns, bailouts, hedge funds, outsourcing, endless bickering over bullshit partisan politics...the runway is way too long.

At least they have the courtesy to weep for our nation's youth.


:agree: And what pisses me off is WE were supposed to be different. Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

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