Taking to the streets and traveling to the deep south, the boomer generation once played a major role in advancing civil rights in AmericaThe voices of protest of the boomer generation helped end the Vietnam war and drove Richard Nixon from office.
In music, culture, movies and books, the boomers have made the world a richer place.
The rights of gays, woman and those with disabilities all blossomed under boomer initiatives. Boomers did much to push for improvement of the environment. For boomers inclusion and tolerance have always been a true north
Today, as a retrograde administration seeks to undo so much of that progress, there should be perhaps no better time to pay homage to what the boomers generation has accomplished.
Bruce Gibney sees it differently.
Perhaps he would have been happier if we had frozen in the 1950’s? Perhaps the self absorbed world of Mad Men had more appeal?
Bruce Cannon Gibney is a venture capitalist and writer. He was an early investor in PayPal, and later joined Founders Fund. His new book is A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
My conversation with Bruce Cannon Gibney
