The Boomer Legacy

We have become a selfish and complacent culture.
This is the legacy of the Baby Boomers - the post war explosion of children born between 1946 and 1964. The "me first" generation. They were the 20 year olds of the 60's, and now they are the 60 year olds - the CEOs and politicians - of our age.
Will we survive them?
Now aged between 42 and 60, the Boomers are in their golden age. They are the leaders, the experts, the grey eminences. They are the judges, the professors, and the senators.
Look at what they are doing.
Ours is the most lawsuit-happy culture ever. People are suing paramedics for not rescuing them properly, drug companies for overdoses, gunmakers for shootings. One man is suing professional magicians because they will not reveal their secrets to him. Nothing is our fault anymore. To millions of people, an accident is always someone's fault, and an error in judgment we commit is always someone else's fault.
Ours is the most selfish culture in history. We want what we want, and we aren't about to change just because there's a war on, or the global ecology is being destroyed or something. Our attitude is that "Nothing's wrong with the oxygen supply - I'm still breathing!"
This goes for our corporate culture as well. So long as the profits are coming in, we don't need to change. Facts? So long as they agree with my viewpoint, they're welcome. If someone says we need to change, fire him. And if the corporation collapses, get out with all the money you can, demand that the government bail out stockholders, and blame it all on foreigners.
We are also the most complacent culture since the fall of Rome. Vote? You can't even get most boomers to put their litter in trashcans. We look at our problems and, instead of solutions, we play the lottery in to hopes that we can win enough to move someplace that doesn't have problems - or that has built a fence to keep the world outside.
The previous generation sent men to the moon. The boomers? They want NASA cut back, and the money given back to them so that they can buy the latest X-box game. If they could, they'd cut out the army, too, and sue any attacking army for inconveniencing them.
Finally, the boomers have produced the most arrogant of all cultures. A look at most boomer blogs tells you one thing - they are right, and anybody who doesn't agree with them doesn't deserve courtesy. We swear as punctuation now. We give other drivers the finger, ignore our neighbor, and wonder why our fathers used to call anyone "sir". As if anyone could be more worthy of recognition as me!
Our TV shows and movies are remakes of old ones, since our shows are all anyone could ever need. New shows consist of America Idol, where we can laugh at others trying to sing. "Good one, Simon! Tell that pompous little tart where to get off! How dare she insinuate that she might be someone more special than me."
Our celebrities all consist of professional athletes (whom we know are all muscleheads who can barely sign their name to their contracts) and entertainers (Paris Hilton . . . need I say more), whom we can all feel are inferior to us. Lucky, all of them.

They are fat, lazy, pompous and self-consumed. They are running Western Culture. Can we survive? Can the world survive?