The Changing Landscape of Being "Old"

I read an editorial a few weeks ago by a gen-xer who complained about baby boomers sucking the air out of every decade in which they find themselves. (Now as any good blogger knows, here is where I reference the article ... but I've forgotten where I read it ... oh well). Anyway, the upshot of her essay was that after having defined what it meant to be a teenager back in the 60's, and after defining the pop culture and business world of the 70's, 80's and 90's, it was time for us to get off the stage and let the next generation define something. Unfortunately, we're not through. We still get to define what it is to be geezers.

Back in the day, the stereotypical old-person wore clothes that were at least 20 years out of fashion and sat around in rocking chairs or at the local cafe talking about the good old days. Boomers don't really care about the good old days (ok, we're still fond of our music), we're too busy being involved in today's world. And it looks like we'll be involved until we all die out in forty years or so. ... Too bad for the other generations.

Hershel Chicowitz puts it quite nicely in this piece found in the Baby Boomers Headquarters.
Read it, you'll get a chuckle.