IF THE AMERICANS WHO lived through the Depression and won the Second World War were the Greatest Generation, then the Baby Boomers would have to be the Greatest Ego Generation. Pampered like no others before them, free to explore their own interests while their parents worked hard to put food on the table, the Boomers eventually pursued pop culture as their time killer of choice.
Being a Boomer myself, I’d like to think that, subconsciously, we were fully aware that learning to play guitar or storyboard a script didn’t, in the end, compare to saving the world from Nazism. Therefore, we amped up the value of pop culture in order to make us feel important–all the while secretly giving thanks to our parents for providing us with the good life.
