Dust in the wind: The twilight of the boomers
The end of the boomers is upon us, but do they even know it? Is death the new 40?
I’ve had thoughts of boomers floating through my head recently. Some of you reading this are boomers, and I might have been one had I been born a few years earlier. Yet the boomers are a vexing generation, as all Gen X’ers know since we have dealt with them our entire lives.
But nothing lasts forever, and the time of the boomers is coming to an end, slowly but surely. Twilight is upon them all, and soon, night must fall. There is no escaping it. Father Time comes for us all, and now his gaze is fixed steadily, inevitably on the boomers, and when that gaze falls on you, there is nowhere to run and hide.
Gen X and the boomers
How many times has Gen X had to roll its collective eyes as the boomers proclaimed that 60 is the 40, 70 is the new 50, 80 is the new 60, and so on? I fully expect that when Jane Fonda dies, some stupid boomer website or magazine will have a photo of her dead in her casket with the caption: Death is the new 20!!! And the boomers will all cheer, believing it is still the “summer of love.” 🙄 😂
No, my dear boomer friends, death is not the new 20. Tina Turner, Eddie Van Halen, Ronnie James Dio, Charlie Watts, Tom Petty, Glenn Fry, and many other boomer entertainers have already departed. The list is too long for me to include in this post, but if you do a search on dead boomer entertainers over the last ten years, you will find a smorgasbord of obituaries. The list will only grow longer in the years ahead as the boomer generation reaches the outer limits of human life spans.
The Rolling Stones, Ozzy and other boomer entertainers
Even the Stones have pretty much stopped rolling; as I noted above, their drummer is already dead. Mick Jagger is 80, and who the hell knows how old Keith Richards is at this point? He’s looked like he’s been 80 for the last 30 years! Will the Strolling Bones try to wring one more tour out of their geriatric bodies? I wouldn’t put it past them, but do we need to see Jagger or Richards collapse dead on the stage in the middle of “Brown Sugar?”
Oh, wait, the Stones aren’t allowed to perform that song anymore anyway. Nevermind.
Ozzy Osbourne is another boomer having trouble accepting that his days as a rock god are behind him. He is 74 or 75, has Parkinson’s disease, and recently had blood clots in his legs (the not-vaccines have wreaked havoc among the gullible boomers who fell for Fauci’s bullshit lies).
Poor Ozzy, he just doesn’t get it. I grew up listening to his music and even saw him in 1983 when Motley Crue opened for him. Those were the days of boomer entertainer glory; they were all young enough to keep the party rolling but old enough to have made enough money to live it up in high style, with the cocaine flowing over them like a mountain of white snow. Indeed, Ozzy and his fellow boomer travelers were truly snow blind in those days.
Alas, we are hell and gone from 1983; that was 40 years ago, and 40 years is a long time in human life. Frankly, it’s amazing that boomers like Ozzy and Keith Richards are still alive, given their behavior over the last 50 years. Whether Richards would outlive Ozzy or vice versa has always been a toss-up. I wouldn’t be surprised if they both went simultaneously to vex those of us who have made bets in death pools about which one would live the longest.
I will give the boomers this credit: they created some great music over the lifespan of their generation. AC/DC, Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Judas Priest, the Scorpions, Billy Squier, Led Zeppelin, and many other boomer bands created music that will be around for many years and will likely spawn new bands that build off their sound and style. So, for that, I give my favorite boomer bands a big thumbs up. 👍🏻
The boomer elites thought they would live forever
However, the mentality of the boomers still astounds me, even after all these years. The rich and famous ones are particularly bad in that sense. They’ve lived the high life for so long that they truly believed it would never end, that “science” would keep them alive forever. But that will not happen; one by one, they have been dropping like flies and clearing the decks for the younger generations to take over.
You know that some wealthier boomers will have their bodies cryogenically frozen, hoping to be brought back to life someday. That plan will work fine until there’s a power outage because the wind turbines or solar panels the boomers love so much fail, and their bodies begin to decompose and rot. What a stink those boomer corpses will give off! I wouldn’t want to be within a hundred miles of one of those cryogenic storage facilities.
The boomers certainly have not been going gracefully as they’ve aged, oh no, not them. They’ve held onto power and wealth for so long that they feel entitled to do so for eternity. Alas, for them, the fake pandemic has put a kink in those plans. As I mentioned above, the not-vaccines have taken a toll on boomer life spans.
The boomers fell for the fake pandemic
The boomers were raised on television, so when the virus was released, and the media-generated hysteria was cranked up to 11, they fell for all of it: hook, line, and sinker. They bought into all the bullshit and ran to get their share of the not-vaccines. Oops! Lousy choice there, boomers. The mRNA-based not-vaccines were never safe and were never properly tested, and the consequences of taking them have smacked boomers like Ozzy upside the head.
For me, the boomer's absolute nadir occurred during the fake pandemic. It's not just that they fell for the lies; they tried to force the younger generations to take the not-vaccines so that the boomers themselves could feel safe. They even pushed masks on children as well as the deadly COVID-19 shots.
I was never more sickened by the boomers than during the fake pandemic. Their narcissism and self-interest took over every fiber of their beings, and boomers like Arnold proclaimed, "screw your freedom." At the same time, greedy money whores like Gene Simmons said that "If you're willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy."
Those comments embody the boomer generation: it’s all about them and always will be, the younger people be damned. They didn’t give a crap about the not-vaccine injuries and deaths suffered by younger people; such things didn’t even enter into the heads of most boomers. They wanted to feel safe, and anybody who disagreed was a threat to the illusion in their heads that they could live forever, enjoying their money and privilege until the end of time.
Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, and I will cut some slack for the boomers that didn’t buy into Fauci and the media’s bullshit. However, those boomers are an anomaly in the face of the behavior of most of their generation. Though they deserve some credit, I will acknowledge that here and now.
But that doesn’t let the rest of them off the hook in any way. When the final history of the boomers is written, the fake pandemic will be the darkest and most evil part of their collective biography, and they will never escape its shadow. It will haunt them in history, and they will be forever loathed by the younger generations that will outlive them.
Nothing lasts forever and that includes the boomers
Thankfully, nothing lasts forever, and the time of the boomers is almost over. One way or another, they are going to be shunted aside forever. Their fame won’t save them, and neither will their wealth. Death takes all, save the undead. We alone endure forever as watchers of mankind, sadly shaking our heads at the foolishness of humanity.
The boomers should have learned from history. There have been narcissistic generations in many different human societies going back through the ages to the beginning of humanity, and where are they all now? Dead. They are dead and forgotten, as the boomers will be, when enough time has passed after their departure from this life. Such is the reality of human existence: nothing human survives over time, and there are no exceptions to that rule except the undead, and we are no longer human.
And so I will leave the boomers with this, the new theme song for their generation:
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Folks, please try to be polite even when you disagree. I had to remove a couple of messages from this thread. Please try to focus on the topic and related issues. Thanks.
I don't think most of us are wealthy, nor powerful, at least nobody I know in my age cohort is. Some of us, maybe more than you think, didn't take the shots, and maybe even convinced a few young people not to take them.
So yes, powerful boomers messed up the world. Just as every generation's powerful did before them, and as Gen-Xers will, too.
Haven't you met folk who are 30 and thoroughly ossified? I have, and too often.
Age can be a part of it, but I'm not convinced that it's the whole of it, or even most of it. The greedy ones grab all the chips, then they make rules so they can keep all the chips. I doubt that's ever going to change.
So...respectfully...gotta disagree with you on this one.