BOOMERTOPIA: A MILLENIAL GUIDE TO LIVING IN A BABY BOOMER WORLD WITHOUT COMPLAINING

This is the sort of anti boomertopia food boomers had to look forward to.

If this is what got rolled out for special guests, what would you guess we ate the rest of the time?

Our parents were born during the depression. If we complained about food we’d hear a story about their parents cooking and serving shoe leather with a side of roadkill.

Complaining wasn’t encouraged, in general, not when the dads’ had been in the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest, or Iwo Jima, or Korea.

Those Dad’s Started Boomertopia

At the end of WWII no one talked about PTSD, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t there.

While the old man decompressed from the fighting and dying, and the fear of fighting and dying, he got married and had kids who grew up while he worked it out.

Once they were old enough, the kids were bound by one desire: to get out of the house.

They got jobs, met other kids just like them, and the march began.

“And Then We Start A Commune”

Were boomers any different than other kids the same age, but a different generation?

We didn’t have helicopter parents, but we earned our wings when we had kids.

We might have been raised on TV dinners, but our kids got farm to table fresh as often as possible.

More than once I’ve heard the critique of giving kids a timeout, usually from someone who’d been stick whipped, extension cord lashed, and slapped silly for bad manners.

Talk to critics long enough and you see how much they enjoyed giving a good belt beating.

At the end of the day, the greatest boomer legacy to Boomertopia will be women.

The Women Of Boomertopia

Boomer women freed women of future generations from the tyranny of their own mothers.

Women could work, go to college, avoid getting married with children, and not look like freaks of nature.

Women could control their lives on their terms more than ever.

This is the lesson to learn from boomer women: Throughout the evolution of society, women have assigned their special place. Boomer women have been the most vocal about claiming their own space, an equal space with equal rights and equal pay.

Though the struggle continues, don’t look to Boomertopia for your answers. But if you do, and find a better way as a result?

You’re welcome