The Silent Generation

The boomers were the first generations to not inherit a world in which things were getting better because of growth. They weren't poised to do better automatically than the generations that had gone before them so they had to break the system and steal from slices of pie that were not theirs. The really distinguishing feature of the boomer generation is a relative and this is not true family by family but a society wide complete indifference for their own children, says CNN's John Avlon.