Oct 06, 2017  Find out why he calls them 'A Generation of Socio. Skip navigation. A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America by author Bruce Cannon Gibney. When all the old, bald white men are smiling, there's reason to worry. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Earlier this year I read Bruce Gibney's screed 'A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America,' with the intent of writing about it here on MNN. At the time, I thought it was too extreme, too much of a rant.

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Such blame-shifting fails to account for what Gibney calls the American economy's new normal: 'low growth, hollow employment, mounting inequality and, on the present course, very little to look forward to.' As his data show, boomer wealth and prosperity was largely funded by debt and driven by consumerism, which has led to slowed GDP growth, narrowing employment opportunities and diminished expectations for future generations. More than this, wealth and power remains concentrated among boomers who refuse to cede controls. (Millennials often joke that they're waiting for older professionals in their field to die so they may finally get gainful full-time work. Except it's not really a joke.) It all amounts to the 'enrichment of the old at the expense of the young.'

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A Generation of Sociopaths is, no doubt, a damning, searingly relevant indictment. But it's tripped up by a number of glaring flaws in Gibney's analysis. The first reveals itself in his book's oxymoronic title. Because if, as the DSM-IV definition the author cites extensively, sociopaths are inherently egocentric, individualistic and unfeeling toward the needs of others, then how could they meaningfully comprise a functional, ruling power bloc? It would, to nip one of Gibney's jokes, be like asking anarchists to form a police constabulary. The author squares this with some wonky tautological thinking, writing that despite their self-interested sociopathy, boomers are 'similarly situated' in the sense of being 'all about the same age.' So, yes, this generation of sociopaths may be composed of sociopaths.

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But they are also a generation, and so possess 'generational unity.' For all its ostensible semantic clarity, it is nonetheless argumentatively unconvincing.Most patently fallacious of all is Gibney's deterministic application of the term 'sociopath.' It would be one thing if his book examined the economic and political legacy of the baby boomers to conclude that the generation has consistently expressed sociopathic tendencies.

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Instead, Gibney proceeds from this as a premise, reverse-engineering various examples to 'prove' it.In his 2011 journey through the global mental health industry, The Psychopath Test author Jon Ronson repeatedly submits himself to guidelines defining psychopathy, finding occasions in which his behaviour fits the clinical definition. But the point is not that Ronson is actually a psychopath.

It's that all manner of slightly antisocial, or even plain innocuous behaviour, can be wrenched and wriggled to fit some pre-existing criteria. It's a textbook example of confirmation bias, and it's something A Generation of Sociopaths repeatedly – and indeed, structurally – lapses into.Thing is: Gibney's analysis itself doesn't seem altogether wrong. It's certainly exhaustively detailed, even if it's screechingly argued. But this needling desire to seem provocative, edgy and 'controversial' makes it seem almost frivolous (and again: very annoying). He seems as interested in proving his case as he is in crudely doodling devil horns on the beaming image of the prototypical, progressive baby boomer. Given the current politics of resentment, one wonders how useful the widening of intergenerational divides really is.

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Millennials may not be the downtrodden, unmotivated couch potatoes baby boomers paint them to be. But neither do they possess the necessary revolutionary energy to defenestrate their parents or drag them head first to the guillotine.