Thread by @sillymickel

Ch 26 “Setting the Record Straight on Boomers:

“The Boomer—Generation X Culture War & the “Truth Dividend” of Having Been There”

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

Fr *Culture War Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

by Michael Adzema

(pub 10/2022)

sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur…

CW22Q 26/1

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

From *Culture War Class War 2022:

*Truth & Generations*

by Michael Adzema

(available on website, as well as a free pdf file, & on Amazon in print & ebook, as of Oct 2022)

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CW22Q 26/2

[Quotes/highlights:] “I can say I feel fortunate to have lived many years in an America quite different from what most people in America being younger than me have been growing up with.”[]

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CW22Q 26/3

[] “I watched in the early Eighties the lies about a ‘Me Generation’ coming out. Republicans brought that out to beat people down with.” []

THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur… #Blue #Boomers #Midterms #60s #resist #Republicans #BlueWave #Yippies #media #CultureWar #Matrix

CW22Q 26/4

[] “The idea was planted [in the early 80s] that folks who wanted anything for themselves were selfish, for after all, only the wealthy should ever benefit.” []

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CW22Q 26/5

[] “The 1% of the WWII Gen’s response to 60s activism on campus...led to their taking over the universities in the early 70s & turning them away from the humanities & social sciences & into career mills; I was there & observed it firsthand.”[]

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CW22Q 26/6

[]“The success of this is what created the Yuppies in the Eighties—young upwardly mobile professionals—who were the first batch of Generation X—who are those born 1961 to 1981, who therefore left high school beginning in 1978.”[]

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CW22Q 26/7

[] “…these Gen X Yuppies were coming onto the scene in the early Eighties, when the first of them were leaving the universities.” []

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CW22Q 26/8

[] “The turnaround in education, away from free thinking & towards conservative careerist values, was in full swing by the time they reached college in 1978 on.”[]

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CW22Q 26/9

[] “& [the effect of the turnaround in education] on [Gen X Yuppies] was patent when they began coming of age. They were what the WWII Generation wanted: money-oriented & compliant...greed had been made ‘good’ again.” []

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CW22Q 26/10

[] “Despicable standouts of this generation [of Gen X Yuppies] today are Sarah Palin (born 1964), Eric Cantor (born 1963), Rand Paul (born 1963), & Paul Ryan (born 1970).” []

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CW22Q 26/11

]“[The WWII Gen] were able to take their values of greed & conformity, sow them in another generation, Gen X Yuppies, point to those values & criticize them, blame them on the hippies,all the while hiding their own espousal of those values.”[

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CW22Q 26/12

[] “[The WWII Gen thru their owned media] perpetrated, denied, criticized, scapegoated, distracted, & obfuscated all together! They thoroughly convinced Americans the Me Generation & Yuppies were those who formerly were flower children.” []

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CW22Q 26/13

[] “…this actual Me Generation, these Yuppies, were predominantly a bunch of reactionary young people who said baloney with this idealism, & of helping out, & kumbaya, & all that stuff.” []

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CW22Q 26/14

[]“[Gen X Yuppies] said, we’re for money, to hell with anyone else. & somehow the WWII-Gen-owned media, assisted by a 50s Gen now in their prime, convinced folks these careerists out only for themselves were the one-time [60s] visionaries.”[]

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CW22Q 26/15

[] “Of course [these WWII Gen wealthy elite] only pulled this off because they owned or controlled all the major organs of expression in America….” []

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CW22Q 26/16

[] “The media flooded American minds with the idea that the Me Generation was My Generation (I’m “talkin’ bout *my* generation” here) in the Eighties. They had prepared the ground for that lie,..” []

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CW22Q 26/17

[] “…as there had been constant slander of my generation in the press since the beginnings of our activism in the 60s, exactly like they are putting out against the Millennials in the Occupy, Black Lives Matter, & Antifa movements today.” []

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CW22Q 26/18

[] “The media controlled by the 1% said the Sixties generation had gone from idealism to just wanting money, thereby discrediting their opponents, us who were consistently representing the 99%.” []

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CW22Q 26/19

[] “At the same time, [with this lie the WWII Gen owned media] gave credibility to their claim of the superior veracity of their own values of greed, materialism, ruthless pragmatism, ego above all, & even me-spiritedness.” []

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CW22Q 26/20

[] “Also, [this lie that hippies became Yuppies] validated, even glorified their personal traits of conformity, hard-headedness, cynicism, compliance, & even mean-spiritedness.” []

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CW22Q 26/21

[] “…what the 1% do is drive people into lowered standards of living & poverty where they experience desperation for money at times.” []

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CW22Q 26/22

[] “Then [the 1%] can point to that grasping to survive as proof that their values of money above all else are legitimate & that it is not possible for humans to have any other values higher than that.” []

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CW22Q 26/23

[] “They create the conditions that they can use to support & validate themselves...how convenient.” []

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CW22Q 26/24

[] ““Yippie Versus Yuppie” was a Leftist debate about tactics. Today it would be considered a discussion of liberal versus progressive views...hardly conservative, Yuppie, or Republican views.” []

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CW22Q 26/25

[] “& Jerry Rubin’s putting on a suit made him about as conservative as it made Bob Dylan a conservative when he picked up an electric guitar at the Newport Festival of 1965.” []

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CW22Q 26/26

[] “…these lies become instituted & they’re not challenged after a while, after you hear them for decade after decade after decade….” []

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CW22Q 26/27

[] “You have to be older to know that it wasn’t always the way they tell you it is.” []

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CW22Q 26/28

[] “It helps to have lived in different times & places & to have seen things with your own eyes to be able to see through these inane ‘obvious truths’ that people take as absolute truths.” []

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CW22Q 26/29

[] “It helps to have had experience with the things they are talking about to know what are actual facts & what are complete fabrications.” []

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CW22Q 26/30

[] “…the Gen X/Yuppie—Fifties Generation alliance was responsible for getting Reagan, Bush I, & Bush II elected. Boomers voted against Republicans, especially these; it’s all in the public record.” []

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CW22Q 26/31

[] “Reagan, Bush I, & Bush II are the ones who did the tax cuts. Whereas Clinton—a Boomer & a Democrat—raised taxes on the 1% & balanced a budget for the first time.” []

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CW22Q 26/32

[] “…it is Democrats—supported heavily by Boomers—who are opposed to tax cuts & favor reining in the greed of the 1%.” []

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CW22Q 26/33

[] “We, Boomers...I was born in 1950...supported Democrats who fought for environmental legislation, alternative energies, & reduced dependence on dirty energies against Republicans, supported by the Fifties-Gen X alliance,..” []

THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur… #Blue

CW22Q 26/34

[] .”…[ Republicans, supported by the Fifties-Gen X alliance,] who watered down those policies & legislated a rape of our natural resources & our environment to benefit big business, Big Oil, Big Nuke, Big Coal, & the 1%.” []

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CW22Q 26/35

[] “…Boomers have consistently voted in greater numbers for Democrats than Republicans over all these decades….” []

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CW22Q 26/36

[] “…it was the WWII Generation who had the greatest retirement wealth per person & who instituted Social Security & other benefit programs for themselves...making themselves the wealthiest as well as the ‘Greatest Generation.’” []

THREAD… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur…

CW22Q 26/37

[] “Probably with the tax cuts, the current Fifties Generation who in their retirement years are ransacking the wealth of the country to fatten themselves, are bettering them.” []

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CW22Q 26/38

[] “Whereas the 60s Generation, scapegoated again, is facing cuts in Social Security, Medicare, & other benefits at the exact time as they need it & are beginning their retirement….” []

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CW22Q 26/39

[] “Lies & toxic misinformation are not healthy, at all, for a movement that is predominantly an alliance of Millennials & Boomers, with some Gen Xers (notably, few Fifties Generation folks).” []

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CW22Q 26/40

[] “After all, how do you think a progressive Boomer feels, after fighting his entire life with his generational cohort for the changes that we are still fighting for with the OWS & Wisconsin union movements,..” []

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CW22Q 26/41

[] “…& with resistance to MAGAtism & Trumpikin fascism, & after hearing his entire life the made up lies, the slander, the scapegoating about himself, his generation, & his beliefs?” []

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CW22Q 26/42

[] “How do you think she feels seeing those same lies being pulled out again & thrown against BLM, Antifa, & OWS supporters, for example, continuing therefore to throw salt into old wounds?” []

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CW22Q 26/43

[] “In this antagonism against Boomers, the other side—the WWII-Fifties Gen alliance, supportive of the 1% & their MAGAt & Tea Party sycophants—have won again.” []

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CW22Q 26/44

[] “…these WWII–Fifties-Gen lies have thrown discord into progressive ranks.” []

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CW22Q 26/45

[] “& [the WWII-Fifties Gen alliance] have thrown off the aim of our movements as to who the perpetrators are, giving the 1% a convenient fog of confusion behind which they can continue unfettered their actions against us.” []

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CW22Q 26/46

[] “…in understanding what might be the truth & what are obviously lies, it helps to be older, for you can know that it wasn’t always the way they tell you it is or has to be.” []

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CW22Q 26/47

[] “It helps to have lived in different times & places & to have seen things with your own eyes to be able to see through these inane ‘obvious truths’ that people take as absolute truths.” []

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CW22Q 26/48

[] “It helps to have had experience with the issues talked about to know what is truth & what are diabolical lies, intended to stir hatred, create conflict, and, once again, cover for actual perpetrators.” []

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CW22Q 26/49

[] “And with that seeing comes the knowledge that over the course of the last fifty years America descended into a deep slumber of untruth from which it could not awaken...” []

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CW22Q 26/50

[] “…[over the last 50 years America descended into a deep slumber of untruth from which it could not awaken...] regardless of all the righteous efforts of many true-seeing progressive activists who did their best to sound alarms.” []

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CW22Q 26/51

These have been quotes/highlights from Chapter 26 of my new book,

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which is

“A Cultural & Political Psychohistory of America from the 1950s to 2022”

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CW22Q 26/52

... enjoy this threaded version of the highlighted quotes of Chapter 26, “Setting the Record Straight on Boomers:

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CW22Q 26/53

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CW22Q 26/54

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CW22Q 26/55

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CW22Q 26/56

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CW22Q 26/57

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CW22Q 26/58

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CW22Q 26/59

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CW22Q 26/60

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CW22Q 26/61

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CW22Q 26/62

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