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On The Boomers

It always seemed to me that it was our collective youth—the uniquely large size of our Boomer generation — that sort of compounded our willfulness and exaggerated the power of our otherwise typical youthful rebellion. My dad was the one who pointed that out to me. He said they didn’t feel they had any control over us at all.

And so many of us were very angry about segregation, other unequal civil rights and that BS Viet Nam war. We found common cause for unity, in that.

Since then they’ve taken more trouble to sell us on their wars. Their pageantry! Good Lord that last guy even wanted military tanks and marches parading down our streets! How unAmerican was THAT?!?

But the start of them all boils down to greed. The vast accumulation of wealth and hence resources into too few hands. Wealth that creates, consolidates and perpetuates control rather than money used simply as a means of exchange. As I dodder along toward my seventies — my Eighth Decade of Life (!), I’ve become more and more convinced that this Wealth Inequality Creating Greed is the fatal flaw to our human nature.

It must be prevented. Checks and Balances. The Tone at the Top — one of Accountability, Transparency, Principles, Ethics and Values. Find the way, young folks. Find THAT path.

www.gao.gov/assets/gao-14-704g.pdf