Why Can't These Adults Get It Right

I've had it with the baby boomers. Every other article in the paper nowadays is telling the world how this generation- Generation X, Generation Y, Generation Debt, etc.- is, in the words of today's pundit, The New York Times' Alessandra Stanley, "the most coddled, indulged, and overprotected generation ever." Her full description is below:

These are people who came of age taking the Internet, BlackBerries, cash machines, Facebook and iPods for granted. They also take the taking for granted. They are the most coddled, indulged and overprotected generation ever. Swaddled in safety and self-esteem, they have all been assured that they are special. They don’t rebel against their parents or even seek independence; they welcome an electronic umbilical cord that stretches through high school and college and even the post-graduate return to the empty nest.

She's totally right about all of it. I don't have a problem with that assessment. However, the way Stanley puts it, its our fault that we are the way we are. In fact, it is not. It is our parents that have made us that way.

Think about it. Who took you to piano lessons when all you wanted to do was play football with your friends? Who gave in to your request for an XBox or a Playstation? Our parents are the reason for us being the way we are, and they seem to be throwing it in our face all the time. Isn't that just a tad hypocritical?

Look, I'm not going to apologize for the way I am (and I'm sure not apologizing for my generation; I'm not a celebrity so I don't take myself that seriously), but I am tired of baby boomers lambasting the way we are. Your parents did that to you, so now you transfer the blame on to us?

While you're at it, could you please stop fucking up the world for us? Our generation isn't responsible for the recent market crashes; yours is. The Iraq War? Don't look at us for that (yes its our generation - Generation Kill - that is doing the killing, but, like everything else, we're just doing your bidding); that's all on you. Yeah, when it comes to fucking up the world, the baby boomers got that shit on lock.

We only fuck up the virtual world- the world that our XBoxes and iPods have made possible, by the way, through - and this is a reccuring theme- the hard work of young designers toiling under a baby boomer boss. After all, the way things are going, that might be the only world we have left.