It’s not really the Boomers fault that they were born in the era of the most sophisticated and refined propaganda machine in world history, and before there were easily accessible alternative media sources to turn to.

Every generation from the invention of mass media until the internet became ubiquitous has been more blue pilled than the one that preceded it, they just don’t see it because they were taught that propaganda is something that happens in communist run countries and and third world shitholes, failing to realize that post war America is the former and gradually transforming into the latter.

I know the origin of the phrase. I heard my daughter and her friends use it long before it was mentioned here on Arfcom. They used it as a way to make fun of someone who was out of touch and often about their own friends. For instance, during an argument about music or fashion. Gurls be savage. This was probably early last year when they were all 16. It may not have been an exact "OK Boomer" phrase but it was "[something] Boomer."

You may want to consider Boomers are not necessarily out of touch but are simply rejecting something they have seen in multiple variations over the years due to all the life experience they have.

That was Seattle's fault.

Someone should do an update of Huckleberry Finn where Boomer Jim escapes from the Assisted Living Facility and travels around with Huck having adventures.  Boomer Jim speaks in incomprehensible Boomer talk and eventually Huck comes to realize that Boomers are actually humans, more or less.

Breaking the strangle hold on information dissemination is exactly what MIGHT save this country.

When it was all corporate media controlled, i.e. controlled by a tiny cabal of the hyper elite, they could tell you any lie they wanted and you had no idea.

The stuff you’re bemoaning is a small price to pay to gain the ability to speak directly to millions without the elite’s approval.

Welcome to the Xennial sub group.

I too think we mostly got the best of both worlds. We got some 80s experience, a heavy dose of the 90s, and came of age when technology really took off- but we still remember the old ways of doing things.

Given the breakneck speed at which technology is evolving nowadays, does it make sense for a "generation" to cover 20 some odd years?

I think our generation is the smallest of all (xennials/oregon trail/whatever)... chiefly covering the advent of the internet at MOST between the high school and college years.  Maybe 8 years tops, and even then that's a pretty big gap.

I know its semantics really, but having a non-internet infested childhood is something that I'm really thankful for.  If anything it gives me context that the latter generations just dont have

And yet today, with a veritable plethora of technical options available to send, receive and catalog messages and the ability to hear the opinions of individuals worldwide in real time, social media is inundated with the most oppressive group-think the world has ever witnessed. The attack on free speech has never been greater. From the 1960s to today, universities worldwide have devolved from centers of free speech to dystopian Orwellian nightmares of virtue signalling doublespeak.

You still need the elite's approval to speak. Only, this time the globalist corporate billionaires are Silicon Valley Big Tech liberals, leftist social media "influencers" and their cabal of followers who shame and/or dox anyone they disapprove of.

Yup.  Neither a millenial nor a boomer... the last dying gasp of a pre-internet age.

Not sure if that's a good thing or not, but hakuna matata.

Stfu boomer

Sorry the truth hurts.
I bet you wished you lived in the south in the 50's.
49 years from now your type will be in what ever camp is popular!
The names may change but the game is the same.

Ok boomer

Someone needs to take away your social security grandpa.

This and I'm neither a boomer or millennial.

Boomer please

Eeney, meeney, miney, mo
catch a boomer by the toe...

Generational bigots think their the good guys once again.
History repeats!

There’s still more alternative media getting out to more people than ever in the past.

Every time they ban people for “hate speech” or “conspiracy theories” it just serves to red pill more people, because you don’t need to silence speech that’s demonstrably false, you only have to silence truths that you want to keep buried.

Ageism?

Fuck off.   We're full up on victim classes.

Next.

“Eh, maybe they will spend it all on yard sales and estate auctions.”

Wow, you really threw @1srelluc into the briar patch with that one

Most of this back and forth about different generations seems dumb, Painting with impossibly wide brushes groups of people solely due to age.

I'm a boomer. I don't give a crap if someone calls me that. The radio host is an idiot.

That's exactly what they want.  The speed and ease of communication via social media is a direct threat to government power.  They desperately want us to believe that they need to squash unapproved political speech for our own good.  Our government wants what China has.

For sure solipsistic degenerate

BOOMER here.  I really feel bad every time I look at my bank account balance.  You guys can argue all you want,  truth is everyone makes their own future.  If you realize no one is going to "GIVE" you anything then you have reached the point of self determination.  You alone are responsible for how your life turns out.

To quote a phrase I heard repeatedly over both my military and civilian careers, "Suck it up buttercup."

I wish you all success in your endeavors.  BOOMER out.

The more I work around boomers the more I loathe them, most complaining, indecisive whiny bitches ever.

You can really tell just the amount of projection older people have been using for years to hide their own insecurities.

How many times have you heard the older generation talk about "snowflakes," "using a safe space," or "We're now a PC pussified culture."

For years and years and years, those were the same tired tropes to describe the younger generation.

But then, the moment "Boomer" becomes a joke, these same types take offense and can't handle it.

Just classic projection.

Kind of like how for the past few decades my older family members have been sending me stupid chain email (Re:Re:Re: subject lines) articles that could easily be debunked in seconds yet they're now the self-professed "experts" on fake news.

I've said for years that there should be a split in the millennial generation. Those of us who remember jerking off to Victoria's Secret catalogues, and those that don't.

lol!

Sure thing boomer!

While I'm definitely more a product of the late 90's and early 00's, my parents are at the oldest range of GenX 54 and 50. I see the dynamic change in my own siblings. I'm 31, brother is 25, sister is 19. One of the fondest childhood memories was a treasure hunt my mom made that was to find a cd-version of an encyclopedia. I didn't have to go to the library any more.

The other one was playing Castle Wolfenstein and Doom.

Cusp of the Boomer/X transition would be those who still thought the Beach Boys were cool and disco was it, and those who bombed lips, grabbed rails, and kicked back to Marley

I distinctly remember the first porn .jpg i downloaded.  It took what seemed like eternity, pulled up on dial-up... but damn was that life changing haha.  No more sears lingerie girls or stolen playboys for me from there on out!

I remember being blown away when my family's Encyclopedia Britannica collection was replaced with a few fancy-shmamcy floppy disks hahaha

ETA holy shit one of the most reliable symptom of old age is chronically saying "I 'member"... guys, it's begun.  Check me into the old folks home, I'm a lost cause now

Jesus.... projection much?!?

Reference to an old movie.  Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

Have we talked about social security yet?

No it isn't Boomer Snowflakes.

Man up everyone.

Before Y, Millenials, Z, and before Tom Brokaw wrote a book about his parents or whatever, there used to be a crunch generation between the Boomers and Gen X.  That argument that the post-war baby boom runs until 1964 is just bizarre, and lumps groups together that just aren't.

IIRC there was also a "silent generation" between the Depression-WWII generation and the boomers.

I think there's a lot of oversimplification on these generational differences that misdirect the actual complaints of one generation to another.  Yuppies of the 80s were boomers, but so were the farmers losing their land in the 80s.  Very different cultural parts of the same generation.

Born in 64 here.  Right on the edge and I consider myself gen-x.  Boomers piss me off.  Fucking hippies.

Be proud, and embrace the Boom. My Booma..

I am not from the baby boomer generation.

However, the idea that someone from a particular generation is automatically discounted is as offensive and un-American as racism.

One thing I have noticed growing up so close to the boomer generation is they smell funny.  Kind of a medicine stale smell.  Like peppermint cabbage.

When I think of MAGA, I think of a time when boomers weren't allowed on Facebook.

"Xennial" ?!? LOL, GTFO out of here with that sad deflection, millenial.
You're not an Gen Xer, pal.

We didn't get the VS catalog. My arms would have fallen off and I would have gone blind for sure if we had. I jerked off to the old Sears and JC Penny's catalog. Don't hate... some good lookin' scantily clad women in the intimates section. Then by freshmen year of High School it was having to wait a few minutes for pictures to load over 56k. Maybe waiting an hour or two for a 60 second MPEG porno clip to load. Nowadays I can stream HD Porn to my pocket computer that is hands down way more useful than Captain Kirk's 23rd century "communicator".

In grade school if I didn't use a no-shit typewriter to do reports, they were handwritten. And we had to open goddamn ENCYCLOPEDIAS and library books to get the information. In middle school we had dedicated "word processors" or DOS machines we could print reports on with lab printers.  Now I can print an AR15 receiver in my home office on a machine 1/10th the cost of the original Macintosh II computer that we played Oregon Trail on in 3rd grade.

Or how about this communication upbringing...I remember having a rotary phone on the wall (hated numbers with alot of 8s 9s and 0s), then a push button, then a MHz wireless (terrible), then a GHz wireless, then a cellular phone with antenna thing that goes up, flip phone, slide phone, and finally a smart phone. I haven't had a wall phone in my house in 10 years. Late millennial and Z literally have no clue how incredibly awesome having a cellphone is. Forget the internet part of it... just the phone itself is fucking magic; in your pocket. I think that's one of the biggest things that was a WTF moment when I went to the middle east for a couple years. You'd be watching this totally archaic village; people getting water from wells with buckets, walking everywhere, squatting next to the road to shit, digging holes with sticks... and then someone would stop for a moment to answer their cell phone. Totally anachronistic! It's like the old Star Trek episodes with toga-wearing cave-dwelling alien civilizations that also had ray guns and force field protected torture chambers.

Late GenX and Early Millennials have gotten to see a phenomenal amount of technological change throughout their relatively short 25-45 years.

heh. Sip.
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I agree with this.  When you're on the leading edge of your generation you have more in common with the preceding generation in terms of generational culture(movies, music, etc.), but also can simultaneously identify with the generation you were born into.  I have cousins who are early gen x, but identify more with Baby Boomers.