A review by paigemcloughlin
A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America by Bruce Cannon Gibney

4.0

Ok, I am a resentful GenXer. The older kids got all the fun in the seventies and we got the authoritarian backlash of the eighties and Madonna. So a takedown of that generation satisfies me greatly. However, I don't think generational analysis or psych profiles of age cohorts are really fair or good analyses. It is a game of generational stereotypes. Frankly, it is more a process in time with class warfare, a degenerating political economy, and the profit motive of capitalism which brought on the process of corrosion of vital institutions. So while the spleen on baby boomers is a guilty pleasure I don't go by that method and I don't think it is ultimately a good diagnosis of our troubles.