A Lot of Baby Boomers are Already Dead
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/01/27
Between 1946 and 1964, 76 million people were born in the United States. For the sake of ease of demographers, this has been termed the Baby Boomer generation in light of this.
That means the oldest are turning 77, and the youngest are turning 59. They are either in the more advanced years of life or at the last legs of middle age.
What might surprise many of you is that approximately 20 million of the Baby Boomer generation have died; one of the significant health challenges for this generation is heart disease.
Estimates are that most or all baby Boomers will be dead by 2041 or 2042. So, what we are seeing in real time is the end of an era; the Baby Boomers have mostly faded away.
Some socio-political concerns and turmoil may be due to an attempt to reinvigorate this form of life. The America Baby Boomers knew it was no more. The era of Christian unquestioned dominance has faded into an era of questioning it.
The time of infinite expanse, plunder, and war of poor countries is passing. The pushback from much of the rest of the world is real. The majority non-Hispanic white population with male dominance is also in rapid decline.
It is becoming more of an era of equal access for all and equal rights for all. In essence, we are seeing a more diversified America at all levels. Some accept a more equitable representation of the country with grace.
Others form militias and Christian nationalist ideologies. That is the nature of change. 20,000,000, that is many people. The following stages in the life cycle for these people will be either bitterness, hatred, and racism or grace, acceptance, and an evolved, more comprehensive vision of the world.
Whether trying to reintroduce theology as a legitimate field of enquiry, metaphysics as a means by which to understand the world, trying to make racial slurs cool again, or getting mad at immigrants when they came from immigrants, it is sad.
They want a reintroduction of a primarily white, Christian, nationalist, and masculine America. At the same time, the nature of the country is more mixed now, with more egalitarianism and a vast number of people without religion: atheists, agnostics, those without religious affiliation, and the like.
The country is changing, and the two subsequent big waves in the country to replace significantly them — to use their language — will be 1) educated women, 2) the non-religious, and 3) a vast swathe of differentiated minorities from all corners of the globe.
That is life.
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