“It's four chords.” Harsh but fair. 🤣

Moving on:

1945 - 1975 were the years US TFR exceeded 2.0, and Peak Boom was 1960. Thus it is probably accurate to label anyone born in the 1960s, such as myself, as Boomers.

The structures and institutions described as “Boomer” were actually erected by the pre-WW2 generation. The Hart-Celler Act of 1965 for example, was introduced by an Irish congressman and a Jewish congressman born in 1912 and 1888 respectively. The bipartisan team of legislators who introduced the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were all born around the year 1900. The 60s counter-culture thought leaders like Jerry Garcia and Abbie Hoffman were born in the 1930s and 40s. (Psychedelic hippie prophet Timothy Leary was born in 1920.) The Frankfurt School which the hippie generation adopted and proceeded to upend academia with was propounded by fossils from the 19th century.

By the time my cohort came along these structures and institutions were cemented in place and we were told from birth by the church, the government, our parents, our teachers, everybody, that it was our duty to obey them.

After the 2008 bailouts, my father born in 1944 told me the institutions had collapsed and been wholly captured.