Baby Boomer Euphoria Comes Down

In '68, you would see the people
who represented the baby boomer hardcore were really arrogant
bastards, whereas their younger brothers and sisters were a
little more cautious about things. They weren't infected with
this euphoria. You saw the same thing with the baby boomers
themselves in the United States, between 1963 and 2000. From 1963
until 2000, the baby boomers, with the election of the first baby
boomer president, Bill Clinton, thought they had arrived. This
was now the GOLDEN GENERATION, unlike any other generation. It
was the WONDERFUL generation. All other ideas and cultures were
WRONG. We had now come into our own. And this generation, under
Alan Greenspan, put out oodles and oodles of phony money for the
housing industry and new areas, and also for the Y2K bubble, the
computer industry.
And this generation, they wandered around from 1993 (??) to
2000, they wandered around until the late spring of 2000, they
wandered around in a state of ecstasy. We are the WONDERFUL
generation, echoing their parents (sic*) who had been baby
boomers born between 1945 and 1956. So again, in the children,
reflected the same piece of insanity which their parents had had
over 20-30 years before. And suddenly, in 2000, it collapsed. And
the baby boomer since that time has been vengeful, hateful and
depressed. And said, we want our money. Everything is money.
Because that's what they believed from 1953 to 1999, 2000. We
won! We are the baby boomers. We have a baby boomer president. We
are now getting a new baby boomer president, George W. Bush. He's
also a baby boomer, don't you know? So, the baby boomers think
they're running the country. They control the Senate. They are a
very powerful factor in the House. They dominate most of the
business and related institutions in the country, to the extent
they still exist, and they have this sense of lost euphoria. They
thought everything was wonderful. They had it made, just like
their parents between 1945 into 1956, had it made! It was taken
away from them! They had won the brass ring. They had been on the
merry-go-round and they got the brass ring. I got the brass ring!
I'm entitled to this free ride on the next turn. And the free
ride wasn't coming, and so now they were resentful against the
fact that the free ride had been taken away from them, and they
want the free ride back!
And that's what you're looking at! So therefore, how do you
deal with this? Well, you say, what do you call such a
generation, in history. It's called a Lost Generation. Otherwise
called a "D" generation. What it signifies is that in such a
period as now, you have to go to a younger generation which is
not infected with this type of disease, because the
characteristic of the baby boomer generation is, We are the
Wonderfuls! There was nothing like us before we came, and there
will be nothing like us after we're gone. We are a moment, a
miracle in history. Nothing like us before. Nothing like us
afterwards. We are in heaven. Why aren't we getting the respect
we deserve.
This is the problem. So, what do you do, if that's the case?
What do you do with such nuts? What you do is you go to a younger
generation. See, some of us are not of that persuasion. Some
people who are younger than I am, in the baby boomer generation,
are also not of that persuasion. They don't believe in this crap.
They believe that there's a better way of living. That we should
return to some values that we had before in this country, and
should build on that. But they feel that they're a minority in
the baby boomer ranks. So what do they do? They say, okay, who do
we go to, as allies, to deal with this baby boomer problem? You
go to the generation of young adults, between 18 and 35 years of
age, principally, and you say, you guys are going to take over,
aren't you? Aren't you going to take over as you grow older, and
develop your skills? Why don't you concentrate on preparing to
take over, and in the meantime, why don't you practice it, while
you're learning?