Why does everyone blame Boomers? I get that a lot of Boomers are obnoxious and ignorant, but so is Gen X and so on. The Silent Generation are the ones that destroyed lives by creating the suburbs.
Why Doesn't the Silent Generation Get Hate?
Why does everyone blame Boomers? I get that a lot of Boomers are obnoxious and ignorant, but so is Gen X and so on. The Silent Generation are the ones that destroyed lives by creating the suburbs.
The silent gen are all dead, also they were the *silent gen* everybody assumes the gi gen were the real ones in charge. And nobody really wants to insult the gi gen
Silent Gen are definitely still around. There's still even 120,000 WW2 vets before them still alive in America and the last ones aren't expected to die off until 2040-ish with the guys who somehow make it to like 115 years old. With the same stat Silent Gen may stick around in some capacity until 2060-ish, with medical advancements they might even have some of the first 130 year olds or beyond.
Doubt
we still have at least one sitting Senator from that generation (Chuck Grassley) now that Dianne Feinstein bit the dust
I thought it was the greatest generation (the one who fought ww2) that are responsible for the rise of the sunburb. Also the silent generation is dead
>the silent generation is dead
what about the sitting, as it were, president of the united states
Wow I always thought he was a Boomer's Boomer but you're right, '42. Crazy.
They stepped up in one final act of revanchism against boomers (Trump b. '46) I witnessed my own grandfather participate, he was silent gen
also Pedo Joe is an early boomer he became an adult in the 60s rather than the 50s
because they weren't a societal carcinoma like the boomers
>waah muh suburbs!
lmao
Suburbs create poverty in Urbia. Compare American Urbia to countries that aren't so filled with sprawl and big black road networks. Obviously the drawing itself is heavily biased in its depictions along with the author being very Conservative.
That's my fault I was retarded and said Silent instead. I didn't look up what generations were relevant beforehand I was just thinking from the top of my head.
>Suburbs create poverty in Urbia.
FDR thought otherwise, which is why he created lots of projects that moved poorfags from the suburbs(then considered all evil and poverty producing) into the magic soil of the cities, which then lead better-to-do to move to suburbs and after the war most of the middle class followed suit. Your statement is pure cope and retarded if you have even the smallest understanding of history of the whole discussion on whether the cities are magic soil and suburbs are tragic soil or the other way round.
I forgot to mention the war against the bum streets - streets populated solely by lowlifes at the end of their travel with all sorts of cheap liquor and food stores, pawnshops etc making the last money that could've been made on them. This was bad. Evil. Poverty inducing. So now the bums are spread out all around the cities. Great job.
Suburbs are proven to be tragic soil by reducing the pollution, social cohesion, political cohesion, quality of construction, wetlands destructions and by causing an inefficient use of resources.
More sensationalist classist nonsense. The fact is people without resources, especially basic ones, cannot then extrapolate on those resources.
Suburbs are magic soil when rich people live there and tragic soil when poorfags live in it. Cities work the same way. The lack of acceptance of this fact is what created a situation where pure cope explanation for the absolute state of urbanism to turn around around 180 degrees which is the absurd I'm pointing our in my post.
>classist
Ideology clouds your vision, explains why you've missed the point so hard.
>Suburbs create poverty in Urbia
>Noooo you have to live in an urban hellscape or else only poor people will be left in the urban hellscape
Sorry I don’t want to live in a massive apartment block and I like having a yard and pool, if Chicago or LA is a bigger shithole because I won’t live there that’s a price I’m willing to pay.
>silents created the suburbs
No. And Silents tend to have character and act like in a civilized manner - or at least they did until they got too old to care for themselves. Boomers were the ones who started rolling around in mud and flushing their cultural inheritance down the toilet so they could smoke grass and listen to shitty rock music.
>No. And Silents tend to have character and act like in a civilized manner
They dress decently too. There are some who are still alive and I've liked them all. They're in their 80s and 90s.
Politically they're interesting in my experience. All the ones I've known liked FDR and were kind of conservative in disposition but liberal in their outlook in some ways, but I haven't gotten the same polarized sense about politics from the ones I've known. I know one guy in his 80s who does yardwork while wearing nice slacks and a long-sleeve shirt tucked in.
Yep
It was the israelites who destroyed living by bringing hordes of negroes into inner cities, forcing whites to move to the suburbs.
Then people should have built more urban areas. Messing everything up is not a reasonable response to corruption that you hide behind ethnic prejudice aka "da jooz." If communities were not broken by suburbs than people could actually decide better what the best immigration policies is and hold people responsible for promoting bad policies but not people are not able to do that in dog eat dog suburban environments.
>Destroyed lives by creating suburbs
The only people whose lives were destroyed were people who weren’t going to have lives anyway. I had no problem making friends and having adventures as a kid growing up in the suburb, it’s just millenials who imagine if they lived in the city they would totally have a better childhood because they could walk to 7/11 as a kid.
Other countries have way more businesses nearby than "7/11." It's called multi-use and multi-residential zonings along with historically built cities.
Suburbs create that very same poverty. lol I'm not missing anything, if the surrounded environments are still car and suburb centric than it bleeds out into Urbia. Almost nowhere in America is more Urban than Suburban with Urbia been a much smaller land use in the middle of huge suburbs which will stretch apart Urbia and its functionings. There is no State that is mostly high density zoning and definitely not multi-use zoning.
Yeah as I posted earlier I made a mistake saying Silent Generation instead of Greatest although multiple generations continued to build suburbs and zone out Urbia.
>Other countries have way more businesses nearby than "7/11." It's called multi-use and multi-residential zonings along with historically built cities.
It’s also irrelevant. Kids don’t benefit from access to businesses in a meaningful sense and for adults a five minute drive to walmart is only different from a five minute walk to a corner store in that with the car/walmart you have access to far more goods and can carry more goods in a single trip. As a 12 year old my upbringing wasn’t effected by convenience stores, gyms, barbers, and restaraunts being outside of walking distance.
All you have are cheap anecdotes and false equivences. Places can have access even below five minutes of walking. Yes it does affect things in the bigger picture by creating many more issues.
>Suburbs create that very same poverty.
They did before ~late 1930's stopped for a few decades, started again, stopped again. It's not about style of the urbanism and no, you're wrong in your next sentence as well
>lol I'm not missing anything,
You are still missing the point. Poor people were shifted from suburbs to urbia as you call it and then suddenly suburbs stopped creating poverty, urbia did. Then it shifted probably few other times depending on where the idiotic governments were shifting the poorfags away and at no point has anyone stopped and thought that if the wealth generation property of suburbia and urban area proper is constantly changing but the poor people that get moved to at-this-point magic soil of either of those areas remain constant, maybe there's no magic and tragic soil at all, poorfags just have their poorfag ways and we should be humanitarian about it and let them live in their favelaville instead of just moving them around hoping they'll get better
My silent generation grandpa lived on a farm in california, became a lumberjack in oregon, then became a contract test site digger in nevada, then started a farm in utah, and now at 92 he lives in a fishing town of like 400 people in oregon. I don't think he's to blame for suburbs. His dad owned a house in what became a suburb but it became a suburb like 30 years after he died so I can't really blame him either. Then again my family never urbanized and I still live on a farm so I guess we're outliers, but like 2 of his 5 kids live(d) in suburbs and they're boomers/early gen x, so I'm more inclined to blame them. On the other side of my family it's mostly rural besides 1 boomer great-aunt who moved to a suburb and all her kids are suburbanites. From my perspective suburbanization started with boomers
The hippies of 68 who ruined the world were boomers, and that's all that matters.
they never produced a president. we had six GI Generation presidents and four boomers but no president born 1925-40.
the early Silent Gens were much more like the GI Generation with the late ones being closer to boomers.
They were the 50s generation, the guys who were young adults in the Eisenhower years while the GI Generation were pushing middle age and boomers were kids.
There's not as many of them because birthrates cratered during the Depression (actually even a bit before that)
my great uncle was from this generation, he was born in 1931. a smart guy who joined the Navy in the Korean War to not get drafted in the front lines and he got schooling there that enabled him to become an accountant for AT&T. also the first house he owned got bulldozed for the interstate highway program.
Because everyone's focused on the Boomers because FUCK YOU, DAD
Boomers actually had a shitty time of it. Most matured in the 70s malaise and the 80s depression. Silents/Greatest Gen were the ones who had it the best.
Almost everyone on this site are too young to have boomer dads...
it's easy to forget that many of the influences behind boomers including Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, and numerous other degenerates were Silent Generation