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A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
Bruce Cannon Gibney
3.35 AVERAGE
196 reviews for:
A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
Bruce Cannon Gibney
3.35 AVERAGE
Had to stop reading after 150 pages. this book reads more like a rant against Boomers where the author has held a grudge for a long time and decided to pool all of his opinion-affirming research and mix in a few backhanded insults without bothering to entertain other possible causes of the issues he writes about.
As a Millennial dealing with Boomer fallout, I thought this would be an interesting read, but I have no interest in a one-sided argument with no nuance (which is exactly what the author says Boomers do!).
As a Millennial dealing with Boomer fallout, I thought this would be an interesting read, but I have no interest in a one-sided argument with no nuance (which is exactly what the author says Boomers do!).
Honestly, I was going to give this 3 stars when the official audiobook ended, but the afterward was amazing and increased my opinion of the book as a whole. The practicality of the suggestions in the afterward should not be missed. Would love an updated version, as this was published in 2017, and so much has changed politically since that time.
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The Boomers, the first generation to purposefully make things worse for future generations. Gen Alpha will be fixing the mess. Millennials and Gen Z (and Gen X) it's too late for. Survival mode, but those generations can at least start to fix things once the boomers finally knock off and are therefore forced to relinquish control.
Have not picked up this book since Feb 2023, finally clearing it off my ‘currently reading’. Maybe someday I’ll come back to it but I recall it being quite dry
It started off rather dull and couldn’t get into it
Another person without credentials throwing around terms they don’t have the expertise to diagnose, let alone attempt to generalize
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.