OK, boomer? (an ok boomer column from marymacTV)
After all those anti-establishment placards and slogans, the years of controlling the vernacular and riding herd on the culture, it’s tough to be reduced to a catch phrase. Sent your way, you might add, by people “discovering” corduroy hip huggers and bong collections.thing, and now look what’s happened. You, mercifully, did not die before you got old, which means you got old. And despite your insistence that 70 is the new 30, 30 is not the new 10 and 20-year-olds still exist.
I am not sure there is such a thing as a “TikTok generation,” though it definitely sounds like the most fun generation ever. And it’s certainly a better name than, say, “extreme weather caused by global warming” generation. Technically I am a boomer, born at the tail end of the 1946-1964 definition, but I do not identify as one I got shoulder pads and yuppies rather than love beads and hippies. “Air Supply” instead of “Jefferson Airplane,” “St. Elmo’s Fire” rather than “Easy Rider.”Indeed, the most enduring legacy of the boomers, also known for a while as the me generation, may be the notion of generational identification.
Which is pretty much the whole point of “OK, boomer”: That all this generational identification is, at best, nonsense and at worst, an attempt by certain members of the baby boom generation to continue to define everyone else in relationship to themselves. Or how they define themselves — when a child I know dressed as a hippie for Halloween, a man at one house she visited remarked, “Oh, you’re dressed as a future Republican.” So, obviously, feelings still run high.
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