Helen Andrews’ fabulously acidic book Boomers has earned a rousing enough recommendation from me that I decided to feature her as the first guest in the newly revived M. Tracey podcast series, now hosted on Substack. Previously I’d been averse to demarcating political conflict by generational lines, but this book has spicily dispelled any lingering apprehension I had in that regard. There’s plenty of cancellable material in here if you’re inclined to be scandalized — an apologia for the virtues of old-style European empire, a counter-intuitive ode to the savvy of Al Sharpton, numerous bitter pills to swallow on the failures of American imperial hegemony and modern feminism, etc. Mysteriously though, Helen reports not yet having been canceled — which raises the question of whether she’s immunized by dint of already being a hardened conservative, and therefore not susceptible to demands for her to grovelingly repudiate herself. Or maybe it’s just because the potentially-scandalized lack the attention span to get through the book, which would be in keeping with her general thesis of boomer violence upon our collective cognitive faculties. Hope you enjoy the conversation.
This was an enjoyable interview. The boomers are justifiably taking tons of abuse on the www these days. They are particularly repellent during the covid clownishness, pivoting easily from "never trust anyone over 30 and Question Authority" to "Unthinkingly obey government experts."
And they never stop talking about the glorious 1960's and their g-g-g-eneration.... just awful.
The me generation sold out, completely undoing the accomplishments of the generation before them. The boomers invented political correctness and their children (the millennials) worship it. Their holy wokeness prevents millennials from speaking any truth or solving any problems. Instead they debate the type of decline to expect.
An interesting discussion but was hoping for more boomer bashing.
What kind of conservative doesn’t understand that the US was founded as an anti-imperialist experiment? She’s just a neoconservative. Why do we have to choose between neoconservatives and neoliberals? Both are anti American. Will we ever be free of these moral midgets?
This was an enjoyable interview. The boomers are justifiably taking tons of abuse on the www these days. They are particularly repellent during the covid clownishness, pivoting easily from "never trust anyone over 30 and Question Authority" to "Unthinkingly obey government experts."
And they never stop talking about the glorious 1960's and their g-g-g-eneration.... just awful.
The me generation sold out, completely undoing the accomplishments of the generation before them. The boomers invented political correctness and their children (the millennials) worship it. Their holy wokeness prevents millennials from speaking any truth or solving any problems. Instead they debate the type of decline to expect.
An interesting discussion but was hoping for more boomer bashing.
What kind of conservative doesn’t understand that the US was founded as an anti-imperialist experiment? She’s just a neoconservative. Why do we have to choose between neoconservatives and neoliberals? Both are anti American. Will we ever be free of these moral midgets?
Interesting, so American empire is more on the “transactional” side, like the Dutch, and less “missionary” like the British.
Interesting, so American empire is more on the “transactional” side, like the Dutch, and less “missionary” like the British.
Yes, my generation really screwed up. Can hardly wait until they finally die out!