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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Die Boomers! Die!
Just in case you were wondering, that's German for The Boomers! The!
I challenge you to fully appreciate the many layers of humor in that sentence by reading Jack Shafer's hope-inspiring article in Slate on how we'll know when boomers have finally lost their selfish, nihilistic influence on the media. Demographics should dictate how long boomer cultural hegemony will hold on. While still the largest single generation, the boomers are steadily dying off-or at least going to pasture. They peaked as a percentage of the population in 1980 at 35 percent and currently stand at about 27 percent, or 77 million self-absorbed individuals. But sooner or later, the post-boomers will give them the necessary nudge, push, and shove to sweep their rotting culture from the scene, and references to Beatles tracks will become as irrelevant as references to Mills Brothers songs. Go Jack! You're my hero for the day |
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