The End of the Boomer
Jan 19, 2009 by Andy Horwitz	in Etcetera
From the Times magazine:
Then, too, have come the inevitable protests from identity-based interest groups: Latinos and African-Americans in Congress who weren't satisfied with the number of senior appointments, as well as gay activists lamenting the omission of a gay cabinet nominee. That sound you hear is the last wheezing gasp of boomer-age politics, the cataloging of individuals according to their areas of oppression, the endless process of tallying cultural differences rather than aggregating common objectives. It is a political philosophy that probably made sense 30 years ago but that seems sort of baffling at the dawn of the Obama era, when such interest groups are among the most powerful in the Washington establishment — and when the Man himself is black.
Let's all hope that the age of the Baby Boomer is coming to a long-awaited and much-anticipated end.
About the author Andy Horwitz
Andy Horwitz is the founder of Culturebot.org. He is a writer, cultural programmer and creative strategist. He is a 2014 recipient of the prestigious Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for his new research project, Ephemeral Objects: Art Criticism for the Post-Material World and currently lives in Los Angeles.
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