Running for Your Life: “OK, Boomer” Mood

Imagine yourself 40 years, even 50 years, younger than you are today.

In an economy with media commentary that divides the nation into two bitter, closed fields of ideological combatants.

Where the rules of the game are easy to learn and follow: conservatives are corrupt and immoral to liberals; liberals are corrupt and immoral to conservatives.

Meanwhile, the economy, retirement savings and stock portfolios are held hostage to Silicon Valley enterprises, the worst (and most “growth” upside among them) devoted to a business models within which our privacy and democracy are relinquished for the material good of, primarily, Boomers, who have most at stake to lose, from their 401 (k)s and their stock portfolios.

Where, Boomer, is the political voice that takes our side? That sees the denigration of our privacy, our voters’ right to live in a true democracy?

Without taking on this dilemma, our all news all the time is nothing but noise, a clammering soundtrack to the rise of our stocks and retirement portfolios.

“OK, Boomer,” you got that?

Next: Running for Your Life: “Considers” by Katherine Rundell