I was born in 1961, which makes me a Baby Boomer. But I’ve never felt like one. I missed out the Sixties, unless you count making it into the 4th grade as “participating” in the watershed decade of the last century. I never had to worry about whether to burn my draft card, although I did sign my selective service card “under protest” in 1979 so that my federal student college loan wouldn’t be held up. (Yeah, I know – pretty pathetic boomer credentials.) By the time I was out of college and ready to fully indulge in the sexual revolution, STDs and AIDS were the acronyms du jour. Pardon me for feeling gypped. Big time.
Whatever Boomer issues sprang up in the social zeitgeist, there were only crumbs left on the table when I arrived. But I and my contemporaries got tagged with all the Boomer stigmas: over-educated, profligate, self-absorbed, wine-swilling hedonists. (Okay, I guess I plead guilty to at least some of those.)
It seems I’m not the first to note the displacement of my sub-generation at the tail end of the Baby Boom. A few sociologists have named it the ‘Tween Generation, while some wag has called us the Brady Boomers (since we grew up watching The Brady Bunch on TV). Whatever you call it, it still sucks to be a Boomer pretender.
The other bad thing about being a ‘Tweener is that the generations that came after mine seemed much more, well, cool. Generation X had way better music and Generation Y has the whole digital thing in its DNA. Plus, their politics are better. My ‘Tweeners were part of the Reagan Revolution, which caused me great distress in the 80s. I’d travel to Europe and have to apologize for my government, even though back home a lot of my contemporaries were happily joining fraternities and sororities and raising another beer to Uncle Ronnie.
For me, the worst part of being a Faux Boomer, though, was that my parents were part of the so-called “Greatest Generation” – those children of the Great Depression who fought in World War II (in my father’s case) and made the world safe for democracy, went to college on the GI Bill (again, Dad), then stormed out into the workplace to create the immense prosperity of the post-war years. In contrast to them, my trials and tribulations seemed miniscule. Dinner table conversation might consist of my mother describing V-1 bombs buzzing overhead in wartime London, then the severe food rationing which lasted in Britain through the early 50s. Of course Dad could regale us with actual war stories, like being wounded and captured during the Battle of the Bulge and enduring actual starvation in a German POW camp. What did I and my sister have to offer? We didn’t get the prizes we wanted in our Cracker Jack boxes? Our Wham-O Slip ‘n Slide stopped working? Pretty thin gruel.
But there are some advantages of not being a bona fide, dues-paying member of the Baby Boom generation. I never had to choose between Beatles and Rolling Stones – I could enjoy them both. I never had one of those bad acid trips that never ends. And I could take genuine pride in voting for Barack Obama, knowing I was electing one of my own – the first President born in the sixties (actually, one month before me). You can have your Bill Clintons and your George W. Bushes – we’ve finally got my kind of Boomer in the White House!
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