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Back in 1963 and 1964, when I was nine years old, my friends and I were all atwitter about the first X-Men comic book, the new G.I. Joe action figure, the forthcoming Star Trek series, and the Beatles. At home I wore blue jeans and20sneakers, unlike my father or any other grownup I knew, and for my birthday I wanted a set of Mattel walkie-talkies...
...almost half a century later, American adults are going to theaters to see new X-Men, G.I. Joe and Star Trek movies, Paul McCartney was the headliner at this year's Coachella music festival, and a new George Harrison album has just been released. At home I wear jeans and sneakers, like most other grownups, and for my birthday I got a new iPhone. Computers and GPS devices are what we have today instead of Etch A Sketches and Erector Sets and Morse-code telegraph kits. Adults of my parents' generation did not bicycle, roller-skate, or play army; adults...
...postwar generation was the first to refuse to grow up, but Gen-X and the rest have followed in their footsteps. And the selfish, heedless, if-it-feels-god-do-it approach enshrined by young boomers subsequently enabled the risk-taking, party-hearty paradigm that has governed so much of American life, economically and otherwise, for the last quarter century. Now in the twilight of their hegemony, with this crisis and the necessary reshaping of America, the boomers have their last best shot at helping to straighten out the mess they helped make. In their empty-nested years, for instance...
...pictures from an X-ray studio...
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