19 January

My two cents. (Have a look at this article - many don’t seem aware of the destruction the boomers have overseen. And yes, they’re mostly lovely people, it’s not relevant.) The boomers didn’t just break with tradition. They broke tradition itself. From their youth onwards, it’s been a relentless assault on inherited tradition and institutions. Very visible in the early Woodstock, anti-establishment years. But it was as they aged that the catastrophe really got going. They replaced the idea of the circle of life, fed by tradition, with the idea of the eternal present. Their own eternal youth. Now many of them look on in horror as Trump and Brexit walk into the space left by the destruction of traditions. ‘Lifestyle’ replaced the circle of life.