{"id":41627,"date":"2018-12-13T20:04:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T01:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41627"},"modified":"2018-12-13T20:04:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T01:04:50","slug":"did-baby-boomers-ruin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41627","title":{"rendered":"Did Baby Boomers Ruin America?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did Baby Boomers Ruin America?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Referring to someone as a sociopath is strong language. After all, just between 3 and 5 percent of Americans are really sociopaths <\/a>, people who initially seem charming, but, due to bad neurological wiring, lack a conscience and are unable to feel remorse. They are exceptional liars and cheats, and have no capacity to feel guilt.<\/p>\n

But according to author and multi-millionaire tech hedge fund manager, Bruce Cannon Gibney, anyone born between 1946 and 1964 (baby boomers) that are still living are sociopaths.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is something wrong with the Boomers and there has been for a long time,\u201d writes Gibney in the forward to A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America<\/em><\/a> and the author\u2019s beatings continue for 400-plus pages.<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t let any of us Boomers off the hook, but really focuses on \u201cgenerational representatives like Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, George W. Bush, Donald Trump, and Dennis Hastert–a stew of philanderers, draft dodgers, tax avoiders, incompetents, hypocrites, holders of high office censured for ethics violations, a sociopathic sundae whose squalid cherry was provided in 2016 by Hastert\u2019s admission of child molestation, itself a grotesque metaphor for Boomer policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gibney\u2019s point being us Boomers are molesting younger generations because Social Security and Medicare might remain solvent just long enough for Boomers, but no one else, to collect. And, the author preaches from the environmentalist good book every chance he gets. Any skepticism about climate change is viewed as having \u201cnegative feelings about reality and science\u201d because, for Boomers, sacrifices for the environment are, \u201cincompatible with sociopathic desires.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boomers didn\u2019t have a chance because their moms read Dr. Spock, were too easy on their kids, and parked us in front of the television. \u201cTV\u2019s essential characteristics make it the perfect education for sociopaths, facilitating deceit, acquisitiveness, intransigence, and validating a worldview only loosely tethered to reality,\u201d the author opines.<\/p>\n

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Did Baby Boomers Ruin America? Referring to someone as a sociopath is strong language. After all, just between 3 and 5 percent of Americans are really sociopaths , people who initially seem charming, but, due to bad neurological wiring, lack a conscience and are unable to feel remorse. They are exceptional liars and cheats, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[1801,23486,204,16451,379,7617,14054,827],"class_list":["post-41627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-baby-boomers","tag-bruce-gibney","tag-democracy","tag-doug-french","tag-government","tag-mises-institute","tag-sociopath","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41628,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41627\/revisions\/41628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}