They were “Generation Me” before anything else.
I’m not getting mad at Boomers; I’m apportioning blame as I see it merited. Why should they be denied their own culpability?
They could have received college educations for the price of a modest car; most chose to remain ignorant. Even now, Boomers hold pervasive views of intellectual resentment; they sent their own kids off to college, and then refused to listen to an educated word they had to say.