Dear Boomers - an open letter from a GenXer [View all]

[Taverner]

Hey guys and gals!

Honestly, I never bought the Boomer v GenX BS. You folks were our teachers, our rock gods and our writers.

You passed on all the great stuff you enjoyed from your generation to us (The Beatles, Catcher in the Rye, etc.)

You let us know what happened in 1963 and 1968. You didn't mince words.

Many of you were raised by the Silent Generation, as were many of us. We have a lot more in common than one would think.

You were the first to ask "why" and maybe not the first, but definitely among those who asked "why not?"

The 1980's yuppies were such a small subset of the boomers - they barely deserve mention.

If you want to see what most Boomers were doing in that time, see "American Dream" where the outright destruction of a union, and the heartland, are destroyed right before your very eyes.

Among the Boomers we can count Michael Moore, Sting and Bono. There are more, this is just all I could come up with right now.

Anyway, thanks.

We're all on this ship together.

--Tav