So, the “OK Boomer” meme is making the rounds. There is an energy to the discussion that makes it sound like the retort is something more significant than the time tested strategy of a younger person rolling their eyes at an older person. Someone asked “what does this mean?” I didn’t get around to responding, but I thought it was a combination of:
- Easy, tiger.
- Sure, Jan.
- That is not only not right, it’s not even wrong.
Generational warfare is kind of fun, but ultimately probably unproductive. Still, if this serves as an antibody to the persistent whining about “kids these days,” then maybe it’s useful. Also, since I’m GenX, this was funny:
MY DAUGHTER: OK, GenX.
[I pull the car over to the curb]
ME: Listen Zoomer, as long as the Millennials and the Boomers are at war, we have a truce. But make no mistake, GenX is nihilistic af and if you step to us we will let you drown in student loan debt.
— Mat Johnson (@mat_johnson) November 5, 2019
OK, Boomer…
(CNN)A 25-year-old New Zealand lawmaker giving a speech supporting a climate crisis bill was heckled by an older member of Parliament. Her witty response baffled her audience, to the delight of millennials everywhere.
Chlöe Swarbrick was speaking about the Zero Carbon Bill, which would set a target of zero carbon emissions for the country by 2050. When she was heckled, she casually dropped a sharp-tongued retort — “OK boomer” — and, unfazed, continued talking amid the puzzlement and silence of the room.
The story gets better from there.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/asia/new-zealand-ok-boomer-trnd/index.html
If the Climate Change crisis defines the collective cluelessness, lack of concern, and unalloyed greed in the fast of disaster, then the kids are all right. And the old F**ks best get out ot the way. (I am an Old F**K, but a recovering one.)
Why old people will always complain about young people
Prediction: Today’s “OK boomer” Gen Z will complain about the youth one day. Blame human memory.
I may be one of the few “Boomers” (actually I am a tail-ender which makes me more of an echo) that does not, and never did, buy into the “kids these days” gripe. Not sure why.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/11/12/20950235/ok-boomer-kids-these-days-psychology