A Generation of Sociopaths

A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America | Bruce Cannon Gibney

bailed

If you are fairly new to discussions of the selfishness/shortsightedness of middle-to-right politics that gained prominence as the Baby Boomer generation began to hold power, then maybe this book is for you. There was plenty I found engaging, especially as discussing the conditions at play coming out of the second world war, and the section discussing Vietnam draft dodging. But the author seems to have a lot of blind spots. #USPolitics #USHistory

ssleif Possibly it needed a more strict editor? But I found there was a lot more personal opinion and a lot less reference to data than I would have preferred. Particularly since I know that data is out there. Also the author seems to be relying a lot more on villainy of individual people, and a lot less on the power of institutions, money, and capitalism more broadly. Maybe the ending justifies the meandering in the middle, but it lost me before that. 3y

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A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America | Bruce Cannon Gibney

so-so

🤔 I picked this up because I thought it might be young-in-cheek. Nope. Full on assault on the Boomer generation for problems in the US. A very well-researched volume into government, pension, insurance and societal issues that we face, good info about how we got here and ideas about how to correct course. But, the framework of laying all the blame in the lap of the boomers (which, I‘m not gonna lie, has some merit) takes away from his arguments.

Well-ReadNeck ... For me, because I had something else in mind when I picked this up, I did a lot of skimming. It‘s a pretty dense volume. #MountTBR 5y

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