Theme Five: Boomers and Generation Peace are uniquely bonded
Generation Peace lives within a larger, multigenerational context. While there is inherent tension among generations, in Generation Peace’s case there is also a unique convergence with the Boom generation — “the original make-peace-not-war generation,” as Dr. Carol Orsborn points out.
Orsborn, a boomer, watches her own Generation Peace children blurring the lines between life and work, and wonders if there is now a similar convergence between social activism and individual peace. “I think that boomers are proud of the fact that our kids are walking the talk that we talked,” she says. “There’s a tremendous intergenerational connectivity that we ought to be nurturing.”
Perhaps Generation Peace is helping preceding generations remember what it is they left undone. Rambam believes that Generation Peace has unprecedented power in its interconnectedness to continue the work the boomers began, to get behind a message and to take it to the streets — only this time, unlike the 1960s, it’s the “virtual streets.”
It’s a mantle that members of Generation Peace seem able to assume almost effortlessly.
“Even though there is so much turmoil going on around us, I think that teenagers have the ability to sit back and actually analyze what generations before us have done and are doing to the world and to each other,” says Bergquist. “It’s up to young people to act on their own to make a difference.”
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