Name: Who Created The Baby Boomer Generation And Why
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T18:08:12.000Z
Duration: 14 min 54 s
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you're about to see a clip of the parents of baby boomers saying how they raise their kids.

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I'm David Hoffman, filmmaker, and I made this clip and I'm showing the clip right now because if you look at the comments on all of my clips on baby boomers, there is so much hostility to the boomers, so many people who want to kill him.

Listen to this thes, um, comments I took this morning.

Very recent comments from my channel from different of my baby boomer clips, why we hate the boomers so damn much.

They lived an incredible, easy way of life, and they ruined it for everybody else.

They destroyed social norms and mannerisms.

They changed that any gender, any race could be okay, depending on how you felt another one.

They cried because life was too harsh for them and they created disgusting rock n roll.

A disco and hip hop and rap is another one.

All they did basically was sit around and eat and watch TV, and by stupid shit, they made us consumers another one.

Boomers flooded the country with nonwhite hordes who worked cheap boomers did drugs.

They left each other like dogs, destroying the institution of marriage.

Boomers divorced because they were too selfish to keep their marriages and their kids together.

Boomers led the gays run wild because of their personal choice.

But I'm gonna tell you after you see this clip, uh, when I really do think what I think is wrong with what the baby boomers did and what I think is right that baby movies did.

Well, you're about to hear the parents think about this, does it, kid?

Become an adult without a parent, Not easy.

If the baby boomers are who some of you say they are, many of you say they are.

Then the parents are responsible, Really?

And these are the parents kind of defending themselves because back in 1989 when I did this, I was asking brands, Hey, uh, are you responsible for your kid?

Those of us who brought the baby boom into being the returning World War Two veterans.

We didn't know what the hell we were doing.

We all came home and we all had Children.

Spock's got a book out, but we didn't know anything about child rearing.

In other words, let me try to say it this way.

There's certain things that you just did.

We didn't know anything about relationships.

The parents of the 19 fifties were, I think, the most unusual generation of the 20th century.

These are the people who had grown up in the Depression.

They had experienced real tough times when they were Children in and when they were teenagers and then world war to hit, as many of them were just reaching adulthood and they had the trauma of the war.

And then, after all that, they reached the 19 fifties at a time when the U.

Was tremendously prosperous, when the economy was booming as We've never seen it before, and I think they reacted to that prosperity.

And they think I think they reacted strongly to all of the trauma of the Depression in the war by turning inward a bit by marrying Young by emphasizing home and family as if that was something they couldn't get back in the thirties and forties and now valued all the more.

It was a perfect setting in which the youth culture, in a certain sense, could could blossom.

Life in the suburbs was organized, organized around the kids again.

They were the center of attention of rat, endless round of Little League games and P t A meetings, et cetera.

So it was in the suburbs in a certain sense, that this message about the importance and the uniqueness and the generational potency associated with these kids, I think was delivered with real force.

This was a distinctly new way to be raised in the world, and it allowed for a whole generation that I suppose we would now call spoiled, spoiled kids, which, from another point of view, simply men kids who had very high expectations in life with respect to freedom and happiness, they thought life was about being free and about being happy.

And they carried those expectations forward into high school and into college.

On brought with them a kind of ah ah, level of expectation that was simply unprecedented.

And I would say in world history, this thing, whole image of giving your Children everything you had and they have to be satisfied and they have to be content, and I think we gave them much too much.

We found out in the fifties that if you get up in the morning and went to work and did a good day's work, uh, the things got better.

Ah, you were able to buy furniture, you could have more Children, the Children could have better clothes and life just improved.

We knew it was because you went to work, but I'm not sure our Children realize that they saw simply that the clothes got better.

And I have a strong suspicion that what happened in the late sixties was that the kids who rebelled took it for granted that life would improve automatically.

My dad was always above board in all his business dealings, But I would say money and getting ahead and and and making a lot of bucks was his goal.

But dead was so busy at work he would work till 23 in the morning, doing artwork, artwork for the business.

I hardly ever saw this son of yours has been fighting again.

And I said you didn't have the guts to stand up for yourself, So I took a poke at him.

A world in which men were sexually impotent Didn't have any right to say that about you, did he?

Pop, go to your room and get a decent shirt this minute.

There was no place for no challenge is being offered whatsoever.

And the other kind of show you could watch with westerns, which showed what a real man could do.

Measuring himself against other men, especially with a gun on.

I think that anybody who was ah, red blooded American boy in the 19 fifties knew that they wanted to beam or like Matt Dillon or Maur like, uh, the paid gunfighter and have Gun will travel.

Then they wanted to be a Beaver Cleaver's father.

And what did girls feel was in store for them?

A life just like their mothers Duty doesn't allow that.

I was just thinking about what, You know, thinking how awful war stay used to be for you.

I had four choices of things that I could be when I grew up.

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Who Created The Baby Boomer Generation And Why

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