For three quarters of a century, other generations would be forced to share the preoccupations of their fellow citizens born in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The country was always “about” these older Boomers. It was built around carousing and sexuality in the 1960s and ’70s and around “family values” and the acquisition of wealth in the 1980s and ’90s. In the first decades of the new century, it was built around protecting the interests and fortunes of those who had prospered in decades past, according to rules they themselves had written—and around protecting the institutions and companies
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