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197 reviews for:
A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
Bruce Cannon Gibney
3.35 AVERAGE
197 reviews for:
A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
Bruce Cannon Gibney
3.35 AVERAGE
I did not finish but wanted to leave a review. I went 20% into this book hoping it wasn't just some dude ranting about Boomers and hoping he had some actually compelling thesis about why their generation might actually have bred a higher than average ratio of antisocial personality types. Like a good Millenial I'm happy to shit on the Boomers a bit.
But he just took any example of behavior he could label as 'antisocial' and then extrapolated that to being 'they are sociopaths'. The most egregious of which was using Vietnam War draft dodging and failure to comply with orders. Other wars are not comparable to this one, certainly not the World Wars, so there is absolutely no way of saying that the Boomer generation handled this any differently then any other generation. I would even hazard to say that every generation since the World Wars has become a bit jaded with their government and less likely to simply follow orders and 'serve their county' and rightly so as each of these wars eroded that trust.
He also used the example of the privileged middle-class university students who were able to evade the draft and saying this was 'antisocial', when he himself mentioned how many protests they organized and participated in. So what? They were supposed to sacrifice their lives to prove the point of this unfairness? If they were truly antisocial they wouldn't have spoken up about it at all, much less organized protests.
But he just took any example of behavior he could label as 'antisocial' and then extrapolated that to being 'they are sociopaths'. The most egregious of which was using Vietnam War draft dodging and failure to comply with orders. Other wars are not comparable to this one, certainly not the World Wars, so there is absolutely no way of saying that the Boomer generation handled this any differently then any other generation. I would even hazard to say that every generation since the World Wars has become a bit jaded with their government and less likely to simply follow orders and 'serve their county' and rightly so as each of these wars eroded that trust.
He also used the example of the privileged middle-class university students who were able to evade the draft and saying this was 'antisocial', when he himself mentioned how many protests they organized and participated in. So what? They were supposed to sacrifice their lives to prove the point of this unfairness? If they were truly antisocial they wouldn't have spoken up about it at all, much less organized protests.
Library loan ended and I couldn’t renew. But I wasn’t reading it very much because the writing was so pompous it made it hard to care
slow-paced
Definitely informative. I found some explanations accessible but others very dense - to be fair, there is a lot of economic and political information at times, so the US focus means a lot of assumed knowledge went over my head. The tone was a bit over-the-top at times, to the extent that I wasn’t sure how legitimate the finer points were.
challenging
informative
slow-paced
informative
medium-paced
This guy wrote this book for one specific type of person; a white cis male baby boomer. Not a huge fan of that and how nicely he talks about defense when he really means war and whatnot.
informative
slow-paced
challenging
informative
medium-paced
Eeeehhhhhh….its a decent history lesson and I did learn a lot I didn’t know about the baby boomer generation, but there are a few arguments in this book that feel pretty stretched to help support his views of boomers. Not that I don’t mostly agree, but there’s a couple, “really, dude?” Moments.
informative
slow-paced