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    [–]chottohen 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

    I agree. Your description of RS today is on the money but in the past, maybe the distant past, they did have some good writers, Hunter S. Thompson for one.

    [–]Heter0ph0be4Life 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    And look what happened to him! If it wasn't for Terry Gilliam casting Johnny Depp in a movie about him, he would be just another self-destructive boomer relic.

    [–]chottohen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Yeah, he was the poster boy for self-destructive boomers. All the coke and booze made his voice unintelligible. But he wrote Fear & Loathing that Gilliam based his movie on. And the movie was brillo.

    [–]Heter0ph0be4Life 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Are you talking about Hunter S. Thompson or Johnny Depp?

    [–]chottohen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I'm talking about the writing of HST since our subject was the quality of writing in RS.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    They're not journalists. They're children with vivid imaginations.

    I hope that's all, bad as that is, but their ties to the government worry me that this is a government sponsored hit piece.

    [–]Heter0ph0be4Life 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    Boomers ruined everything. Selfish hypocritical greedy assholes who mask their selfishness as concern for humanity.

    [–]chottohen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    That is a p r e t t y broad generalization right there. There were greedy assholes and others who actually did stuff: the Internet, the computer in front of you, etc. Also the results for your generation are not all in yet.

    [–]Heter0ph0be4Life 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    The ones who "did stuff" did stuff that destroyed this country. Computers existed in the 1960s so boomers couldn't possibly have invented them.

    [–]chottohen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    First I want to say that we do not have to adopt an adversarial stance in my opinion. If you consider that the first boomers were born in say 1945, then that would make the early boomers age twenty in '65, old enough to play a part in the development of the machines we're all using today. But we are talking about more than computers here. Boomers were all over social movements from the sixties on. The women's rights movement is one example (even though Gloria Steinem worked with the CIA now and then. She was born in 1934 and not a boomer.).

    Steve Jobs lived from 1955 to 2011 and Wozniak was born in 1950. To me they are certainly boomers and certainly contributed to computer development. There are countless others, born post-war, that could be named. If we set the date for the beginning of the controlled demolition of the US at the end of WWII, then boomers didn't start the fire but yes, they surely were in on the action from the late sixties on. So, I do not disagree with you on that point.

    But the plans for the destruction of the US began before WWII and were carried out by people like Henry Kissinger (born 1923) and a horde of others born before Henry. Those people were decidedly not boomers, neither were they US citizens in many cases. I chose Henry as an example because I see him as one of the leaders of the destroy-America campaign and he is still at it.

    I agree that boomers were a definite part of the problem because they were in their prime at just the right time to take advantage of that economy. So I see their participation in the destruction as a matter of the timing of their births but not because they had innate character flaws.

    By the way, Hunter Thompson was born in 1937, making him a non-boomer.