Warning: This is nothing but a personal, bitter rant probably induced by hormones as a means of self-therapy. I know I have been doing a lot of that lately, but I think blogging keeps me saner in real life.
Here is a great example on Baby Boomer commentary in regard to Humane Vitae. This comes via The Curt Jester.
This paragraph is so typical of ANYTHING written on ANY topic by that generation:
The baby boomers recall vividly the Vietnam War Tet offensive in January; the April assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; the Paris Peace talks and riots in May; the June assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy; and the August protest riots in Chicago at the Democratic convention among nation-shaping events that year.
Gosh, I don’t know why mankind just simply didn’t stop right after that generation since they achieved perfection. Hell, they had the Kennedy’s. How can anyone compete after that? (Yes, sacrcasm).
For all their blubber about social justice and polling on “true life experience in regard to birth control”, have they even stopped and looked at what is going on in friggin’ China? Nope, because they know better that Paul VI about social justice. After all, he was only the Vicar of Christ. This isn’t about experience, this generation were too busy “living their lives” to be parents, and now 832 years later, they are too busy living their lives to be grandparents. Out of four, living Baby Boomer grandparents, my children will never know what it really like to have one true, Grandma type like I or my husband did. Every kid I knew from my generation was practically raised by their grandparents. Our parents were too busy to spend any weekends, vacations, or holidays with us, and were told what a burden we were when we had to be home on weekdays. Now they are post-menopausal and still kvetshn because they have grandchildren who come to visit.
Stop whining about your personal injustices, 40 years of that is enough. If you are Catholic, be Catholic. If you believe in God and feel that He gave us the Catholic Church to help us know what the heck to do, then believe He gave us the Church to direct us. Period. That means no birth control. Look at it in reverse, if you believe the Church is mistaken about birth control, then yo believe the Church has no idea what it is talking about. How can it be reliable on any topic? If that is the case, why be Catholic at all? Well, trusting Humane Vitae means truly appreciating the people in your lives as gifts. And why not? What else is there? For all the “I should have aborted you” Baby Boomers, and “whew I did my time” Baby Boomers, and the ” When I was small, I always wanted a little girl…until I had you.” Baby Boomers (my mother imparted that gem to me when I was 8), I wonder how the grass would have been so incredibly greener on the other side. Why does it take so much more energy to love your kids than it does to complain, complain, complain about having them. (Yes, I am bitter as my kids will never know what it is to have a Grandma that bakes with them giving them mini-rolling pins and mini-baking pans, or a Grandpa that takes them to the park and pushes them on the swing for hours because he adores spending time with them. However, my children will never have a parent telling them they should have been aborted.)
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Hey, in more important news that we all can relate to, Ryan Seacrest was bitten by a shark.