The Clueless Generation and Occupy Wall Street

Obviously Americans born between 1946 and 1964 (the most common definition of the baby boom) are an extremely diverse lot both sociologically and politically. In this piece I’m addressing a particular subgroup: complacent professional types who have anywhere from vague to sharp memories of 1968, but who don’t understand what those kids occupying Wall Street — and now many other places — think they’re doing.