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Are Baby Boomers a generation of sociopaths?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by MisterCreosote, Mar 27, 2017.

  1. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Are Baby Boomers A 'Generation Of Sociopaths'? | The Huffington Post

    A controversial new book argues boomers are beset with egotism, impulsivity and a shocking lack of empathy -- and they're leaving the world a worse place.

    I usually hate intergenerational harrumphing, but I'll make an exception for boomers, considering they're the primary offenders.

    I'm not going to make blanket statements one way or another. I'll just say I'm often staggered by people who have no ability to understand the world beyond their own experiences, and the vast majority of them are boomers.
     
  2. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Maybe you should tweet about it instead. And get the SIKids kid to weigh in, too.
     
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  3. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    Look at it this way. I'm a lot less irritated by the intellectually incurious than I am by people who are staggered by the intellectually incurious. Live and let live.

    Unless that led to a vote for Donald Trump. Then fuck 'em.
     
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  4. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    Some of my favorite people are Boomers, but taken as a whole they are the absolute worst.

    Seriously, the worst.
     
  5. cisforkoke

    cisforkoke Well-Known Member

    They make a lot of Jif.
     
  6. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    I mostly blame boomers for giving birth to, raising and enabling succeeding generations of whining, insufferable, entitled dweebs who expect everything to be handed to them. Except my kids, of course.
     
  7. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    You really are working hard at making that a thing, aren't you?
     
  8. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Once I saw the author described as "writer and venture capitalist," I stopped reading.
     
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  9. SpeedTchr

    SpeedTchr Well-Known Member

    I will straight up murder anyone who tries to say that to my face.
     
  10. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    We are a species of sociopaths and boomers got handed some powerful tools
     
  11. cisforkoke

    cisforkoke Well-Known Member

    You are hardly working at not making Jif.
     
  12. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Your next post on this board that isn't pure Jif will be your first.
     
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