While much of what you say is true Jean, but I think your title misrepresents how Boomers like myself feel in general. We do not "write off" the current generation. Who writes off their own children?

If some of us lack sympathy for some of the struggles of this generation, it would make us exactly like every other generation that ever was. Life is tough for everyone in every age, it's just different.

I'm sure my grandmother who left Poland alone at 17 with just $15 in her pocket and zero English language skills, landed in New York and had to find work as a streamstress, married a tailor who decided (without consulting her) to buy a farm, and who gave birth to 12 children at home, two who died before age 6, thought her Greatest Generation brood were a bunch of slackers.

The vitriol aimed at Boomers online is absurd. There are just under 70 million of us. Just like every other generation, there are saints and sinners, heroes and villians, geniuses and fools. To lump us all into the same box and assume we have anything in common other than when we were born is ridiculous..

Why do we keep putting people in categories and assigning labels? Wouldn't it be better to look at everyone else as just another person?