Hymns to The Greatest Generation Sound Hollow When Sung by the Worst Generation

And by worst, David Gerlernter means the Baby Boomers:

My political credo is simple and many people share it: I am against phonies. A cultural establishment that (on the whole) doesn't give a damn about World War II or its veterans thinks it can undo a half-century of indifference verging on contempt by repeating a silly phrase ("the greatest generation") like a magic spell while deploying fulsome praise like carpet bombing.

The campaign is especially intense among members of the 1960s generation who once chose to treat all present and former soldiers like dirt and are willing at long last to risk some friendly words about World War II veterans, now that most are safely underground and guaranteed not to talk back, enjoy their celebrity or start acting like they own the joint. A quick glance at the famous Hemingway B.S. detector shows the needle pegged at Maximum, where it's been all week, from Memorial Day through the D-Day anniversary run-up.

I have no doubt that when the definitive history of the latter half of the 20th century is written, the Baby Boomers will be considered to have been an absolute abomination---the most pathetic, weak, navel-gazing bunch of narcissists the West has yet produced. If V-J Day marks the Greatest Generation's greatest accomplishment, surely their children were their nadir.

Harsh words, to be sure, but given the broken families Generations X and Y had to deal with as a result of the Baby Boomers' excessive regard for themselves, well-deserved indeed. To hear these Boomer establishment types praise honor and sacrifice, concepts with which only those amongst their generation whom they ridiculed, smeared, and shunned were familiar, is to make one wish "chutzpah" were an expletive.