According to Grok, the Boomer Generation were born between 1946 and 1964. Roughly 76 million people were born in the U.S. during this period.
Let’s look at this generation in a different light: they grew up drinking water from a hose. Here is a list of other “traits” from this generation:
- Playing outside until the streetlights came on — This was the common curfew. Kids left after breakfast or after school and stayed out for hours with minimal check-ins.
- Being latchkey kids — Many returned home alone after school, wore a house key on a string around their neck, and occupied themselves until parents got home from work.
- Roaming the neighborhood unsupervised — Exploring vacant lots, woods, creeks, or friends’ yards in mixed-age packs without adults tracking them.
- Walking or biking to school (and elsewhere) alone — Often starting at a young age, without helmets or adult escorts.
- Riding bikes without helmets — Helmets were rare or nonexistent for everyday riding.
- Riding in cars with few safety measures — No (or rarely used) seatbelts, kids piled in the way-back of station wagons, or sitting in the front seat; car seats were not yet standard or required.
- Entertaining themselves through unstructured play — Building forts, playing with sticks, inventing games, climbing trees, or dealing with boredom without screens or scheduled activities.
- Limited media and technology — A few TV channels (often watched as a family), Saturday morning cartoons, rotary phones with long coiled cords, no internet or cell phones, and answering the home phone or front door themselves.
- Everyday independence and responsibility — Doing chores as expected (not always for allowance), fixing minor problems themselves, and handling scraped knees or sibling disputes without constant adult intervention.
- Other everyday norms of the era — Exposure to indoor cigarette smoke, sugary cereals and soda with little restriction, metal playground equipment that got hot in the sun, and PSAs like “It’s 10 p.m. — do you know where your children are?”
Our upbringing made us self-reliant and more aware of our surroundings. We did not have much in material wealth but we understood the concept of the American Dream. So we worked hard, were frugal and did not expect the “government” to help us succeed. We played in the sun and did not have “electronics” to turn us into screen sucking vampires. We became responsible adults and wanted our children to have the same values.
But the government and the educational system had other ideas. So now our children see a dark future with no hope for success. Our Western European white culture has been vilified and our “taxes” have been used to attack us and erase our founding principles.
In other words, the government won and the villains became the last generation of Western European descent who had a chance at the American Dream. There will always be people who are successful and who are greedy.
I started from nothing and built a successful business. I am not rich in terms of people who lived in the 1960s and 1970s. The government ensured that our “wealth” was excessively taxed and our monetary wealth degraded by inflation.
My parents did not leave me anything. My father once offered me $10,000 and I turned it down. I told him I was fine and he should keep it. He then asked me for some money and I asked how much he wanted. He did not answer me but the twinkle of pride in his eyes was a moment that I will never forget.
This newest division concerning the Boomers is just a fabrication. When I started out, being white was just becoming an impediment to a career. Being smart was a death blow as I found out. Fortunately, I found out early enough to understand that building a business was my best course of action for success.
My life lessons growing up gave me valuable experience and the hope of attaining the American Dream. It is not our fault that college tuition became a trap to enslave our future generations with debt. It is not our fault that government malfeasance gave us high inflation for expensive housing and automobiles.
What wealth I have will go to my children. That is my choice, not someone else who is basing my character on the year I was born. It is also my choice to expose people who judge other people based on characteristics, success and unfounded divisions. Should boomers be vilified for reasons that are not their business? If you want an answer, look at how the comments skewed off into tangents on this article.
Stop drinking the Kool-Aid and prepare for battle because war and famine are in our future.
20 responses to “Boomers”
I was born in ’76. Every bullet point applies to my gen as well, but we are always the forgotten ones. The real difference between us is that we made it to adulthood, then were the first adopters of all things tech. But we knew life beforehand.
Another difference, Boomers hold twice the wealth as Gen X, 85-90 trillion vs 40-45. We have half, and that is being watered down by the collapsing empire. Those under my generation have about zero hope of ever matching even what X has earned.
None of that matters.
What matters is the Anarcho-Tyranny thats about to give the invading ferals free reign to S. Africa the remaining white population.
I’ll let any unbiased future historians(if there are any…or is a future) figure out where along the lines of mid 20th to early 21st century America it finally gave way.
Consider this though…what generation has held on to political power the longest? This is why they get the lions share of blame.
Yeah, at first I didn’t get it either. Its another manipulation and control tactic, pitting young vs. Old. My parents were decent people, those descriptions are interchanged at will. Its obvious this is a setup. People still swallow it hook, line, and sinker.
Qui bono…. always applies. We are being divided. Qui bono?
Brother if the majority of your generation was just like you do you really think we would be in this same mess…Also if they were just like you wouldn’t there me millions on this site.commenting instead of the couple dozen that do…There is supposedly 64 to 67 million of your generation still alive can you not stop just for a moment and see that you and those like you are very few in number and most of that generation is what everyone says they are a selfish entitled degenerate population…If you want us to call a spade a spade in all other areas then if you are an honest man you know I’m speaking truth…Thing is I have no hate in my heart for your generation even though they have affected me good and bad… I pity them for the most part for being indoctrinated so well by the TV and News…
So it is the Boomer’s fault for the downfall of the Republic. We are responsible for destroying white culture. We allowed the invasion of illegal third world morons.
Is this the best redirection and propaganda you can do?
Ahh man I thought maybe you different but I see that isn’t the case…Sad That…Have a good one…
Haven’t the Boomers controlled the government for quite some time now? They certainly have had quite the influence over the direction this country has gone in the last 50 years. Run Forrest run!
I grew up drinking out of the water hose and a lot of other things you state in the article, I don’t think greed has anything to do with success tho. The CIA and communists are all about divide and conquer, just look at mamdani, rich are the problem, it works and they are using it to a great success.
Yes. The same old playbook.
I grew up a proud/feral/latchkey child.
Saturday morning Cartoons… every Saturday :))))
This Boomer versus Generation X is a pet peeve of mine. I was born in 1964 and graduated high school in 1982. Finished college with business and management degrees in 1986. My parents always considered themselves Boomers. Their parents were the generation who fought WW2. The Boomers were named for the Baby Boom that occurred from all of those people facing death having a strong urge to reproduce, or basically to just have sex while facing the stress of death.
In my college classes the Boomers were the generation who came of age in the 50s and 60s during Happy Days and American Graffiti. Then faced the draft and the Vietnam War.
I came of age with MTV, no draft, but the Sword of Damocles (Nuclear War) hanging over our head. Boomers had Elvis and the Beetles. We had the Second British Invasion and Punk Rock. They had pinball and we had video games.
They had Muscle Cars, I had gas lines and little 4 cylinders with zero power.
They had careers and I had lay offs and outsourcing every few years.
Yet decades after I finished my education I received the final indignity of being told that those born in 1964 are Boomers. In the end I even lost my generation. I am truly Generation X.
I don’t mind all the other BS. But to tell me I’m a Boomer when I experienced nothing that they did, is just too much.
See how easily we are divided. Especially by labels. All Americans should focus on the truth, come together and fight for our freedom. Instead, we have censored news, evil government and endless wars.
I have not seen behavior by Boomers as anything resembling cohesiveness. NOW you talk of “coming together”? When other people ask me who is the most relevant Baby Boomer today? I quickly answer, OJ Simpson! That’s your generational legacy!
Bless your heart.
If you go by the book Generations by Strauss and Howe you are considered a Gen-X. They put the generational cohort at 1960-1979. Makes sense to me because Michael Jordan is no Boomer!
Feb. 1964 and fully agree.
Me, born in ’62 so technically a boomer. My kids were born in the early 90s. We did and still have more in common from a sociological perspective than I ever did with my parents. We love the same music, laugh at the same movie references (you are welcome MoMo and J Dub). My daughter and son have work ethics 1000% beyond their generational cohort. My point, labels are generic yet individuals are specific and often defy crude classification.
I do not see the boomer generation as latchkey kids. The insertion of women into the workplace so they could pay men less was not really started until sometime in the 60’s so few boomers were latchkey. Being a mid Gen X all of these to some extent were prevalent in life.
You are correct Brother…
Born in’59. We grew up not knowing how good we had it, and that we were the last. It took time for some of us to understand how we and subsequent generations were being screwed by those in charge of our financial system. We didn’t feel the full effects of fiat money until the 2000’s. And those of us who tried to tell our friends not to trust the stock market or house “values” and instead hold PM’s and live more frugally were told we were crazy. Until the double whammy of 2008 and 2020. Then some of my friends started to get a clue. I also encouraged young people to forgo college and find a skilled trade. Paper pushers are going to be easily replaceable but AI can’t troubleshoot and fix its’ own hardware problems.