A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

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In his remarkable Men s Journal and controversial Fortune book written in a wry, amusing style The Guardian Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity In A Generation of Sociopaths, Gibney examines the disastrous policies of the most powerful generation in modern history, showing how the Boomers ruthlessly enriched themselves at the expense of future generations.Acting without empathy, prudence, or respect for facts acting, in other words, as sociopaths the Boomers turned American dynamism into stagnation, inequality, and bipartisan fiasco The Boomers have set a time bomb for the 2030s, when damage to Social Security, public finances, and the environment will become catastrophic and possibly irreversible and when, not coincidentally, Boomers will be dying off Gibney argues that younger generations have a fleeting window to hold the Boomers accountable and begin restoring America. Free Read A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America [ Author ] Bruce Cannon Gibney [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr This was a fun, fascinating and somewhat depressing read, offset by the author s witty humor and thorough research With such a bold title, I was curious how Gibney would make the case As he sees it, it s not that every Boomer is a sociopath, but rather that as a generation, the Boomers have overseen a series of personal and policy choices that have systematically benefited themselves at the expense of the younger generations in a sociopathic manner After finishing it, I m convinced that This was a fun, fascinating and somewhat depressing read, offset by the author s witty humor and thorough research With such a bold title, I was curious how Gibney would make the case As he sees it, it s not that every Boomer is a sociopath, but rather that as a generation, the Boomers have overseen a series of personal and policy choices that have systematically benefited themselves at the expense of the younger generations in a sociopathic manner After finishing it, I m convinced that the Boomer generation took things off the top and are responsible for much of our country s tepid grow and ballooning debt.The first third of the book is a brief history of the a Boomers from birth to Vietnam, and Gibney lays out the case that the America the boomers inherited, while still deeply flawed conditions of blacks and women, anyone , was esse...If you are going to read this book, something you have to keep in mind is that the author is an extremely wealthy and successful investment banker and venture capitalist Throughout the book, he fails to see that what has actually caused the problems in America that he points to in the data such as the decrease in savings rate, increase in cost for college, failure to address...I read an ARC provided by Hachette Books that was written before Trump had won the Republican primaries so there may be edits made by Gibney in response to the election.I ll clarify my biases at the outset by saying I m a Canadian Millennial born in 1988 raised by Silent Lost generation parents born during WWII so I wasn t raised by Baby Boomers.This is not the first time I ve seen Baby Boomers called sociopaths and I think it s an understandable response to the labels put on Millennials who I read an ARC provided by Hachette Books that was written before Trump had won the Republican primaries so there may be edits made by Gibney in response to the election.I ll clarify my biases at the outset by saying I m a Canadian Millennial born in 1988 raised by Silent Lost generation parents born during WWII so I wasn t raised by Baby Boomers.This is not the first time I ve seen Baby Boomers called sociopaths and I think it s an understandable response to the labels put on Millennials who are frustrated with a system that they feel unable to cope with or change I can only imagine Baby Boomers who feel they don t fit in with the stereotypical Baby ...3.667 stars Repeating, of course.I first heard about this book from a friend who heard an interview with Bruce Cannon Gibney on NPR I listened to the interview, which featured talk about how the Boomers were sociopathic due to their high exposure to television, lead paint, fuel, et al , hedonism drug culture, sex culture , and often just rode on the coattails of their parents generation for all their claims about civil rights, etc Compelling arguments The thing is, this book is really 3.667 stars Repeating, of course.I first heard about this book from a friend who heard an interview with Bruce Cannon Gibney on NPR I listened to the interview, which featured talk about how the Boomers were sociopathic due to their high exposure to television, lead paint, fuel, et al , hedonism drug culture, sex culture , and often just rode on the coattails of their parents generation for all their claims about civil rights, etc Compelling arguments The thing is, this book is reallyof a primer on the state of economics In other words, not exactly what I was anticipating However, as a primer, it s pretty successful at laying down the foundation of our present crises in a convincing argument, with the back drop of sociopathic behavior being the driving force in all of the choices of those in power As a rich hedge fund manager, Gibney, is surprisingly agnostic in his approach to civic financial reform He s pro t...Boomers.What does that word bring to mind for you Your kindly parents or grandparents Yourself and your friends Or a generation of people who have eaten up big at the societal table and skipped the bill, leaving their children to wash metaphorical dishes for decades In case you haven t guessed from his inflammatory title, Bruce Gibney sees Boomers as the latter A Generation of Sociopaths who have broken the social contract, pulled every ladder up behind them then plundered their nation for Boomers.What does that word bring to mind for you Your kindly parents or grandparents Yourself and your friends Or a generation of people who have eaten up big at the societal table and skipped the bill, leaving their children to wash metaphorical dishes for decades In case you haven t guessed from his inflammatory title, Bruce Gibney sees Boomers as the latter A Generation of Sociopaths who have broken the social contract, pulled every ladder up behind them then plundered their nation for their own benefit.I apologize to any older readers out there I know you re not a monolithic generation and many of you fight the good fight for social justice and equity but he prosecutes a powerful, terrifying case, in...I am not actually going to read this one, because I feel like I could have written it If you have any doubts about the validity about my perpetual rant against Baby Boomers, this might make interesting reading.Instead of a review, I am adding my current message to our Democratic Party Leadership.I was appalled by POLITICS CONGRESSIONAL MEMO For Democrats, Being Out of Power Has Its Perks, By EMMARIE HUETTEMANFEB 12, 2017, The New York Times.What if anything does the House Leadership care I am not actually going to read this one, because I feel like I could have written it If you have any doubts about the validity about my perpetual rant against Baby Boomers, this might make interesting reading.Instead of a review, I am adding my current message to our Democratic Party Leadership.I was appalled by POLITICS CONGRESSIONAL MEMO For Democrats, Being Out of Power Has Its Perks, By EMMARIE HUETTEMANFEB 12, 2017, The New York Times.What if anything does the House Leadership care about Certainly not being in power to effect policy beneficial to those we purport to represent How can we feel good about ourselves after the 2016 election We seem to be in complete denial of our culpability in the election of the arrantly rebarbative Trump How can Speaker Pelosi claim she knows how to do this after the shellacking we have taken over the past eight years Our government is not brok...Man oh man this is a long and dense book But I kept reminding myself that hating on Baby Boomers is a marathon not a sprint.In this book we learn that the primary division in politics since about Proposition 13 hasn t been Left vs Right it has been Baby Boomer vs all other generations and Baby Boomer vs decency and Baby Boomer vs the good of America and Baby Boomer vs Earth.I m cool with that I think Baby Boomers suck because there are at least three classic rock FM stations in any Man oh man this is a long and dense book But I kept reminding myself that hating on Baby Boomers is a marathon not a sprint.In this book we learn that the primary division in politics since about Proposition 13 hasn t been Left vs Right it has been Baby Boomer vs all other generations and Baby Boomer vs decency and Baby Boomer vs the good of America and Baby Boomer vs Earth.I m cool with that I think Baby Boomers suck because there are at least three classic rock FM stations in any major market But it turns out they are responsible for everything bad that has happened since the voting age was lowered to 18.Mr Gibney by the way, who was Peter Thiel s roommate, and who therefore must have a few interesting tales to tell gives his anti Baby Boomer arguments a bitthought than I do He even uses some small portion of his VC gains to buy as much of America s government gen...The first 120 pages of this book were fairly enlightening, as Gibney attempts to explain the social reasons for Baby Boomer s self absorbedness The arguments given are compelling, and statistically backed.But when Gibney dips into politics, it s all stuff I ve heard before And I m finding myself hard pressed to blame baby boomers for the demise of the United States Might we forget that generations preceding the boomers were extremely repressive towards women, minorities, or those that were The first 120 pages of this book were fairly enlightening, as Gibney attempts to explain the social reasons for Baby Boomer s self absorbedness The arguments given are compelling, and statistically backed.But when Gibney dips into politics, it s all stuff I ve heard before And I m finding myself hard pressed to blame baby boomers for the demise of the United States Might we forget that generations preceding the boomers were extremely repressive towards women, minorities, or those that were LGBT The whole book gets so single minded in the second half that is becomes difficult to follow Most of it foc...Such a great book I ve always wondered what exactly happened to the baby boomers in my life For awhile I thought maybe it was the time they spent under school desks during the Cuban Missile Crisis that fried their brain Obviously life iscomplex than just one moment in history George Carlin nailed it Grandparents were into books and science My parents baby boomers not at all Same with my husband s parents and a good amount of my friend s Such a great book I ve always wondered what exactly happened to the baby boomers in my life For awhile I thought maybe it was the time they spent under school desks during the Cuban Missile Crisis that fried their brain Obviously life iscomplex than just one moment in history George Carlin nailed it Grandparents were into books and science My parents baby boomers not at all Same with my husband s parents and a good amount of my friend s parents Education, being well rounded just wasn t on their radar The only baby boomers I get along with are readers or artists otherwise, it s virtually impossible to have a conversation with them I watched them ruin the church I grew up in I watched a lot of what this book details I was dumbfounded by the Evangelical spiral that a lot of people in my life got caught up in It s like reason went out the window when that happened My Grandparents were not addicted to t.v and I could go over to their house...

A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
  • English
  • 21 September 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 464 pages
  • 0316395781
  • Bruce Cannon Gibney
  • A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America