I was thinking about this when I had Breakfast Club on the brain and was posting last night. I don't really consider myself Boomer even though I was born in 1963. All the people in the photo below are Boomers but I doubt they're in anybody's mental picture as such. The Breakfast Club movie resonated very much with my cohort though I'm sure I'd spot a lot of triteness if I watched it again.

Speaking of trite, I'd call the 1960-65 cohort the “Breakfast Club” generation. We universally despised school but homeschooling would take a couple of more decades to get out of the gate. The defined benefit pensions and five-figure houses were long gone and immigration was a fait accompli by the time we had any social heft. George W Bush was “conservatism” (admittedly, lots of suburban goober conservatives in my cohort). But Boomers Steve Sailer, Dennis Mangan, Rollo Tomassi, Hans-Herman Hoppe, Roissy and others were already taking things in the realist and anti-idealist direction. Watching every Republican flip and pass the Clinton Administration's PATRIOT Act after 9/11 and then deciding we needed even MOAR immigration was eye-opening for lots of us.

As a final FU and killing blow to vestigial Americana from the departing Bush administration, we got 2008 and the government declared the rich would not be allowed to become poor. Never thought of this country the same way again. The mass formation psychoses of #BLM and Covid are undoubtedly younger people's road-to-Damascus moments.