My generation was the tail end of the Cold War.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was very much a child of the Cold War.
So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us.
Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.
My generation has left the globe in a mess.
I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividing line - at least for the Western World - between the comfortable security of the 19th century and the instability and flux of our own time.
My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.