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Baby Boom Generation Parents

It’s all about me!



It’s entirely possible that the “baby-boom” generation are the worst parents in the history of mankind as a significant percentage of their progeny are growing up to be unfeeling, psychopathic narcissists. A classic example is “art student” Thorarin Ingi Jonsson whose 15 minutes of fame came about as a result of a fake bomb scare he called in to the Royal Ontario Museum just as an AIDS fundraiser was about to start. According to Jonsson, this was an “art project” and it resulted in the Aids fundraiser being cancelled as the ROM had to be evacuated.

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Proof that this moron is indeed a narcissistic and unfeeling product of a family that utterly failed to instill in him the boundaries of good taste and respect for others resides in the fact that Jonsson claims to be proud of his project, albeit he did mumble the obligatory regrets that the AIDS fundraiser was cancelled. But what the hell, this is about Jonsson and his “art project” not some poor suffering sick people squirreled away in some icky place like Africa. I recall my own days at the Ontario College of Art & Design. We had the odd aspiring “artist” like Jonsson who dabbled in conceptual art. These generally included people who were totally colorblind and had little or no talent and no one took them seriously. Individuals like Jonsson and his ilk are becoming ever more commonplace as the children of the great baby boom are beginning to enter adulthood, a term that strictly applies to their chronological age. Large corporations are now finding themselves having to hire consultants that teach upper management how to deal with these overly entitled and clueless poor performers, as they have begun to enter the workforce. But then, this shouldn’t be entirely surprising, given the environment in which this generation was reared. Schools no longer care about a student’s ability to perform academically. Their entire focus is on turning out graduates with self esteem, never mind the ability to read, write or even think beyond the most basic biological function, as Mr. Jonsson has so aptly demonstrated with his “art project”. Add to this parents (and in many cases single parents) whose prime goal is to have their children be their friends and confidantes and the end result is a generation that consists largely of individuals like Jonsson. I don’t wish to condemn an entire generation due to the actions of one kid. The world’s media abounds with examples of kids doing unspeakable things, not the least of which is killing their parent. The Menendez brothers killed both their parents in Los Angeles in 1989, hoping to inherit their father’s wealth. Suzanne von Richtoven, a relative of the WWI German flying ace, killed her parents in Argentina in 2002 because she wanted their money. 18-year old Sarah Johnson of Idaho killed her parents in September of 2003 because they disapproved of her relationship with a 19-year old illegal alien. During her sentencing, Johnson showed no remorse for her act. So you get the idea that there are children who kill their parents. But much worse is how other young people often react to the news of a teenager killing his or her parents. Here’s a little something I ran across on the Internet regarding the murder of Sarah Johnson’s parents: “When I did a search in google (sic) for "teen prison" I happened to find an article about Sarah Johnson, who was convicted of killing her parents. In the first article I found, I didn't see anything about how the parents had treated Sarah. Since I tend to believe in something called cause and effect, I speculated that the relationship between theSarah (sic) and the people called her parents left a little to be desired before she killed them...” This from a teenager who has devoted a web site to excusing Sarah Johnson’s parenticide and who believes that maybe her parents were being too hard on her. It’s almost a cliché that generations are critical of one another and I’m sure many will see this as merely another example of inter-generational sniping. But clichés aside, the evidence that we are rearing a generation of individuals whose prime concern in life is the self is overwhelming. From the clerk behind the Tim Horton’s counter who finds making change for $5.00 a challenge, to the teenage girl who accidentally kills herself and four friends because she’s text-messaging while driving, to the dolt who scared the hell out of ROM staff and visitors with an ill-conceived “work of art”, it’s all about one’s self. The only perspective apparent in their lives is the one that points to them.


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Klaus Rohrich is senior columnist for Canada Free Press. Klaus also writes topical articles for numerous magazines. He has a regular column on RetirementHomes and is currently working on his first book dealing with the toxicity of liberalism.  His work has been featured on the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, among others.  He lives and works in a small town outside of Toronto.

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