You seem confused as to which generation is which. The Greatest Generation is mostly dead. If they're alive, they're not shitting on current generations, they don't even know what "Gen Z" is.

They definitely didn't start the Great Depression or the American Nazis party. The oldest were 30 years old when the Depression started. The youngest were 3. They had no political power and were the first generation to grow up with electronic media (radio) and communications (telephones).

The entire weight of the world was dumped on them as they were just starting out in life. They were just like Millennials. Your parents may have been shit heads but JFK and MLK Jr. were not.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Boomers are the results of GI generation and the Silent Generation. My generations are not confused, I also don't pigeonhole entire generations into tiny boxes and only attribute what fits in that little box to them, which is why I chose multiple facets of the generations between the early 1900s and the world wars. You don't suddenly lose all wins/losses because you were born a minute after midnight on the day the generational names got plopped down. Regardless of any point of the discussion, we should not be calling any group the "greatest", no author seeking to push his book (at the time) to the top of the NYT bestseller list should get the fortune of manipulating generational names to ensure sales.