It is my affliction to read widely on finance and economics - darting like a waterbug on a lake and seldom dipping under the surface. (Can a person digress in the first sentence of a note? I think I just did.)
In the last few years there have been countless articles discussing how the Boomer generation (my generation) will burden its children with unimaginable social and financial costs as we reach our dotage. It occurred to me this morning that while this is true, it doesn't reflect the truth our children will inherit.
This focus on how the Boomers will afflict our children and grandchildren is, in fact, yet another example of the Boomer generation's absolutely, unblinking fixation on itself. I'm not a social historian but I'm guessing that no other generation in Western history has been so self-absorbed, all throughout its life. I have always been a little ashamed of this.
Maybe it's time for we Boomers to stop worrying about our aging and passing and start worrying about how the world our children will have and provide the best world we can for them. That's what my parents did and it seems right to me.
(On reflection, this is a rather sophomoric thought ... but then it's still early in the morning. Would that I were the philosopher to state the question more profoundly. Uh .... nah!)
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