The Boomers’ Almighty Gods, By Roger Behra

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The Boomers’ Almighty Gods

By

Roger Behra

In America the Boomers are considered to be the 1946-1964 generation and their clueless descendants. The 1946-1964 generation started the counter-culture movement in the United States, which also spread to other countries as well. It was an ill-fated movement as history has recorded it to this day. That movement has drastically altered American culture. And the descendants of the Boomers have carried the movement on and even added to the movement original philosophies, very sadly to say.

The original Boomer philosophy was “to throw out the old, bring in the new ways of living.” And that included from the start pushing God and acceptable ways of morality out of daily living. To a great degree they were quite successful in doing just that. And to a very great and culturally destructive degree they replaced God and acceptable morality with the constant, earnest, and non-stop pursuit of money and sex. Now, at this point, you have added two and two and have correctly concluded that the Gods of the Boomers are, yes, money and sex. And if you keep up with current events, you have also concluded that the results of those two pursuits are quite appalling and destructive to the once great American culture.

The first on the two Gods was sex, because the Boomer generation was young, virile, and not yet really focused on money. But money soon became a pursuit as this generation quickly moved aside the acceptable rules of morality in regards to sexual behavior. It did not take long. And it has evolved into today’s appalling moral behavior-increased prostitution, co-habitation without marriage, mistress for married men, a very high degree of sexually transmitted diseases, aids, acceptance of homosexual sex, and plenty of extra-marital affairs that help to increase the divorce rate. The Boomer generation put acceptable morality in the trash can.

Very soon to follow the sexual revolution come the ever increasing and intense obsession and pursuit of money. And that led to greed and very poor decisions and many failures in money matters. As a result there are foreclosed houses, bank failures, a very poor economy, and inflation out-stripping wages, extreme costs of food, health care, rents, houses, autos, and basic necessities.

Now, the 1946-1964 generation is ready to retire or is retiring, and they are crying big crocodile tears and singing the blues. Why? Because it is very EXPENSIVE out there! And it is too late to change things for the better. The seeds they sowed have blossomed fully and have come around to overshadow them and their future. While the Boomers obsessively pursued sex and money, they remained clueless about what they were really doing to themselves down the road. Instead of God, proper morality, and common sense remaining part of their progressing years, they paved a rough road for them to travel when, now, they are most in need of a much better older age and a happier retirement. That is the revenge of the God they neglected and pushed out of their younger lives. And their descendants are following firmly in their footsteps.

R. B.
01/03/08