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An emailed response...we wanted you to see it

As a Gen X I have the rare distinction that my parents proceeded the Boom generation, so I was raised with a more Post-Depression mentality vs. a Post-WW2 mentality. They also didn't share in the same cultural experiences as the Boomers. However comparing the way I was raised vs my friends who's parents were a good 10 to 15 years younger there was more value put on having things, fitting in and doing things that were more fun and less contemplative. 

That being said we also got to see and appreciate the End of The Cold War. If you didn't live through part of that epoch you don't understand that Gen-X has learned to deal with Game Changers early on, the rise of computers to ubiquity, television as culture, (MTV, etc.). I'm just waiting for the next change, and then the next, and the next. I do not assume the way it is today it will be tomorrow, or that it should be. 

As my parents are aging, retired already, they've been planning ahead for decades because they had to deal with their parent's lack of planning. If anything it is the Boom Generation that will have to accept that generation X & Y will not be more successful/ upwardly mobile then they were, so that means it will be a bigger burden to take care of them if they have not provided for their retirement.

Another emailed response...

So there are really two different waves of baby boomers: 1. Those that raised Generation X who by all accounts are functioning and adapting better than any generation in history; 2. Those that raised Generation Y (and who have become known as Helicopter Parents) who coddled there youngsters like no other generation before them, and the long term impacts of that to the ability of that generation to adapt and function is still to be determined as the results to date are decidedly mixed at best. 

And of course the Baby Boomers themselves have shown a profound lack of the ability to adapt. This is the generation whose parents we were so recently reminded won WWII, and then went to the moon. True the baby boomers caused great societal changes, but they all became affectionality known as the me generation and bear the brunt of responsability for loosing the Vietnam War, stagflation in the 1970's the dot com bust, the housing bust, and the current global economic meltdown. They have not adopted well to change and have fought globalization, and any other number of trends. 

The truth is though in both cases until the baby boomers accept that they are now senior citizens and need to step aside and let the middle aged Gen Xers and Gen Yers who are now 10+years from college step into their roles as tomorows leaders.

Even in politics for all the "change" that Obama represents in the US he is still at the end of the day our 3rd baby boomer President and real visionary change typically comes with generational shifts.