“Die Boomers, Die!” – A Dispatch From The Future

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Chris Trotter
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“The Boomers will be hunted in the streets by marauding Millennials raised on a diet of electronic screens and empathy reducing paracetamol. Buy shares in a razor wire factory would be today’s top tip.”

– Excerpt from a comment posted on The Daily Blog

THE AGED DEFENDERS HEARD THE MOB before they saw it. The rhythmic chanting of “Die Boomers, Die!” and “Fee, Fi, Foe, Fum – we smell the blood of Boomer scum!” Moments later they were shielding their eyes from the sun-bright twinkle of a thousand smart-phone flashes. The Millennials were advancing up the road, taking selfies as they came.

“Any sign of the Police?” Charlie Watson spoke into his own cell-phone, as the mob of Millennials flowed up-to-and-around the razor-wire-topped, four-metre-high walls of the retirement village.

“Not yet, Charlie. Their dispatcher says that ours isn’t the only village under attack tonight. Word is that the Restful Gardens complex is also under attack.”

“Really? I didn’t think these kids were that stupid. Don’t they realise that its full of the parents of Chinese Gen-Xers? The Consulate won’t wait for the Police. The latest revision of the Chinese-New Zealand FTA allows the People’s Republic to use deadly force against anyone threatening the lives or property of Chinese nationals.”

“Yes, people are already tweeting that the Consulate’s helicopter gunships are strafing the crowds. Scores of casualties, apparently.”

Charlie sighed. “When will they ever learn?”

Suddenly, the air was filled with the sound of a screaming car engine. The Millennial sea parted as the electronically-guided vehicle made for the village’s steel gates at top speed.

“Driverless rammer!” Charlie yelled into his cell-phone. “Take it out, Bill! Take it out!”

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Bill Ramsden squeezed the trigger of his 50-calibre machine-gun and watched as the explosive rounds tore the car to a thousand pieces. A great wail went up from the Millennials as the petrol tank exploded in a searing fireball.

As if in sympathy, scores of Molotov Cocktails arced through the air. In seconds the village’s prize-winning rose-gardens were ablaze.

“Bastards!” Charlie shouted, as his precious blooms burned.

Blood-pressure rising dangerously, the old Baby Boomer jammed the butt of his sniper-rifle into his shoulder. His rheumy eye, pressed to the scope, followed the bouncing laser dot as it traversed the bodies seething beneath him.

Confronted with their magnified faces, a pang of guilt tightened his throat. They were all so young: burdened down with debts they could never hope to discharge; eking out a precarious living as gig-geeks; cooped-up in the high-rise slums of the Unitary Plan’s sixteenth iteration. These kids could barely afford to eat – let alone equip themselves with the sort of high-powered weaponry authorised by the Boomer-dominated government after the first Millennial hunting-packs had left dozens of elderly bodies strewn along suburban streets.

Remembering the fear and outrage that had swept the country after the first attacks, Charlie hardened his heart and brought the laser-dot to rest on the “Non-Voting and Proud!” T-shirt of a bearded hipster working furiously to haul away a dislodged coil of razor-wire. Gripped firmly between his teeth was the Millennial killers’ weapon-of-choice – a wicked-looking hunting knife.

“Steady, Charlie, old boy!”, he muttered to himself. “Breathe!” The laser-dot moved steadily upwards and came to rest in the middle of the hipster’s forehead. Charlie’s finger tightened on the trigger.

It was only in the split second between the explosive crack of the rifle and the young man’s skull exploding, that Charlie recognised the face of his grand-son.

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22 COMMENTS

  1. Very entertaining. Though I suspect the war will be exposing ‘real truth’ in the ‘post truth’ world, like the Panama Papers, Rawshank, The Sony hack, etc etc

    People are getting sick of hypocrites and liars and it’s not a generational thing.

  2. The Chinese name for No Zealand is Xin Xilan. Yes, NZ is being colonised. You’re narrative, while vaguely imaginative, contains a serious flaw: the “millenials” will not be those with cellphones taking selfies, they will be the ones living on the streets, in cars and p houses… trailing machetes along the asphalt as they head for your properties and then climb in the window…

    • Anyone else get the feeling Castro will be the first to wet himself when confronted with the sharpened spade and wire garotte of our deep state security forces?

  3. Well then , Chris,… you’d better come back in from the cold and rejoin the fold, hadn’t you now?

    And part of the avoidance of that nightmare futuristic scenario happened last night with the overwhelming victory of Micheal Wood in Mount Roskill.

    The quicker this government of malfeasance is dethroned and cast out , the quicker the likelihood of that obscene scenario you’ve described above will be nipped in the bud.

      • Roger Douglas be buggered I want to hear him own the responsibility for 28 dead miners at Pike River- if Little can treat his members so badly, imagine what he would be capable of allowing to happen to an ordinary kiwi shit kicker.

          • What am I conflating? Reality – when Andrew Little was the boss of the engineers union they deliberately set about ‘increasing market share’ by grabbing coverage for workplaces & trades which were completely unconnected to the traditional EPMU industries.
            Psych nurses & journalists being two of the more egregious examples. Little wanted the journos because what better way to connect with any ‘leftie’ journos than thru the delegate structure – a strategy for creating a path to the top gig. The psych nurses were less obvious but the NZNO is one of the biggest & most financially viable unions in Aotearoa, so this was prolly just a way to get leverage over a large union regarded as being part of the left faction in the union spectrum cos EPMU is far to the right. At the time the EPMU went after the psych nurses there was considerable concern among other unions that the EPMU was poaching their way into become the ‘one big union’.

            Anyway, Little personally maneuvered between a few miners and the company to grab coverage for Pike River miners.
            His union had little or no experience with the mining sector and the EPMU signed up to an agreement which seemed to ignore established safe practices.
            Worse this poaching rooted those unions already stuffed by the employment contracts act, who had the knowledge & skills to ensure miners were kept safe, leaving kiwi miners belonging to the epmu to having a part time official who was also responsible for aviation industry workers.
            Mining is a high risk occupation that demands union officials who understand the industry – if there wasn’t sufficient member in aotearoa to fund a full time position filled by an expert (something I do not believe was true) then the kiwi miners should have been allowed to get coverage from Oz’s CFMEU.
            After the explosion the CFMEU was called in by the government because following the EPMU takeover there was no one in this country in either the union industry or Work Safety capable of providing sufficient expertise.

            IMO Little’s empire building was one of the major contributing factors to the accident. The day after the explosion Little flew in – not to do a Helen Kelly & provide support to the families of these union members – no the first thing Andrew Little did was stuff his face in front of the TV cameras, seemingly using the death of his members to sell himself.

  7. Plain old fearmongering,Chris. What else do you call it?

    You are playing the same old game of the TPTB.

    Only this time it is not white against black or visa versa, but generation against generation.
    Just like the brainwashing of the 50’s and 60’s aimed at young people.
    Just like the men against women before and carries on today except it’s
    now women against men.

    Who benefits? Certainly not a cohesive caring society.

    It is only my opinion,of course, but you may be better placed as a script
    writer for Hollywood. Only no one goes any more. We all see right through it.

    Shame on you Chris.

    Cheers.

    • Considering you’re a cheerleader for arch-bigot Donald Trump, who has engaged in racist attacks on muslims and Mexicans, Iain, I hardly think you’re in a position to cry wolf about a lack of a “caring society”. This is you having yet another snide dig at progressive issues, Iain, without actually being upfront about it.

      Cheers yourself.

      • Frank;

        You seem upset, so please let me explain better my response to Chris’s
        fantasy piece. I thought I was being ‘upfront’.

        Any sarcasm you note reflects my huge disappointment in some of Chris’s work lately, especially in the run up to America’s election with his seemingly adoration of Hillary and CNN’s polls that were so fraudulently different from the others. Many readers said the same.
        ie;the repeating of MSM rhetoric that has now been exposed for what it is.

        So,when I read his ‘Dispatch from the Future’ I was not only offended
        by it but thought the imagery utterly repugnant.

        Why? After myself, and so many of childhood friends, been ‘lead astray’
        by the messaging/psy-ops of the 60’s (Brother in 50’s) music/film/literature etc to such an extent that not many marriages were left intact after 10yrs
        or so and wedges driven between the vulnerable youth and their parents.

        I just saw red, now knowing it was all by design.
        A TPTB strategy to break up the family unit and collapse our culture on their way to One World Government.

        From working/middle class our parents did not know what was happening.
        They suffered their own versions of indoctrination with Chicago/mafia
        gangsters,alcohol and two World Wars,not to mention the Great Depression. Again,all by design.

        And all my above has only gotten far worse. Decade after decade,by increment, we have now reached the stage of abuse,bullying,terms of
        motherfucker and people marching in the streets(America at mo.) shouting
        to kill cops and setting fires all over the place.

        Divide and Conquer is the strategy and the Oligarchs have been using it
        for centuries. Now we have the Internet we can understand and do something about it.
        This is why the MSM is dead. Fog Horn of the Globalists.

        Please take the time to actually read and go through the links contained
        therein.

        “Sociological application of the divide and conquer strategy involves causing discord and conflict amongst racial/ethnic groups, or exploiting class, religious, age or gender differences to divide and diminish power of various groups according to these sociological classifications.”

        http://www.globalresearch.ca/divide-and-conquer-the-globalist-pathway-to-new-world-order-tyranny-from-a-geopolitics-perspective/5483935

        “This second installment examines how they’re regularly using that same proven formula domestically to divide Americans(all west) socio-culturally in any number of fragmented ways. Ample evidence shows how the elite has used its oligarch-controlled mainstream media to spread lies and propaganda in order to shape public opinion through nonstop false flag incidents and nonstop feed of false narrative disinformation. For a very long time.”

        http://www.globalresearch.ca/how-the-new-world-order-globalists-are-dividing-americans/5483941

        “Operation Mockingbird”.- To those readers that do not know, CIA/Intel
        operatives/assets have been placed into our news feeds to control or
        actually write the MSM narrative since the late 40’s.

        This link below is a little out dated (as up to 1997) but it shows their
        influence throughout most of our life times and rest assured are the
        same programs today. Well worth the read.

        http://www.globalresearch.ca/a-timeline-of-cia-atrocities/5348804?print=1

        This “generation against generation” is what the Baby Boomers
        experienced.
        BUT.
        Many are well off not because they were greedy and uncaring but because
        the economic and regulative conditions were so favorable.
        They strove for a better life for their children than they had.

        NZ had the 2nd highest standard of living in the world after South Africa.
        People were paid a good living wage. My mother did not have to work.
        NZ had the peak of our education standard in the 60’s.
        They had no crippling student debt to contend with.
        Health care standards were high.
        And you could capitalize the child benefit (up to 16) for the deposit on
        your first home with interest rates very low from the State.

        If we all,young and old, chucked this False Paradigm of ‘Left and Right’
        (more division and both the same anyway) and mobilized against the real enemy-the Globalists- we might well have a fighting chance to make
        NZ Great Again!!

        Brexit,Trump,Russia,Italy,France,Austria and more are doing it,then so
        can we.

        Nats,Labour and Greens will not help us.They are controlled by the same
        Mafia Mob that has caused all the shit we are in right now. It’s by design!

        Vote for our only Nationalist Party NZFIRST.

        Cheers.

  8. I am a baby boomer who worked for years in hard physical work, shearing etc, I do own a block of land and a shed but I am not greatly wealthy and I have been campaigning vigorously to ensure that central and local government hold the commons.

    Not all baby boomers are Auckland property holders, and although the rogernomes were all baby boomers, so were those who struggled against them.

    I see many young people involved in Its Our Future and 350.org but it’s baby boomers who make up the bulk of the committed activists across the board.

    But the real point of this is that I suspect that baby boomers having either deposited their parents in under staff rest home with lovely lobbies and very small cells or watched their parents slowly decay and die, will do the brave and decent thing and decide when to die. I have spent the last few years looking after my father who is blind and legless (He is 86 I am 62) and realise how absurd such a slow death is. We will not want to be absurd men and women.

    That will leave space for our children, and many of us have worked hard to support a decent future for our children. Inter generational hatred distracts from the need to fight the capitalism behind all our problems.

  9. There is definitely a generational dimension to the class war & inequality that NZ has entrenched since 1984. NZ cannot afford to follow the USA down this road.

  10. ” Charlie recognised the face of his grand-son”

    I’m shocked – and amazed.

    Does this mean that there really are deeply caring youngsters who actually visit the Olds before coffin and will reading time?

    Youngsters who aren’t bleating ultra-politically correct drivel at their own offspring too late to prevent meltdowns in public places?

    Charlie got to see this kid after the beard was grown?

    I think the plot got lost there.

    If The Evil Boomers have any sense at all – they’d not only vote for euthanasia but also legal infanticide before we get to the fabricated inter-generational strife. With a selfie, of course…

  11. “taking selfies as they came”

    News flash Chris, everybody who uses FarceBook takes selfies. They’re called profile photos. Some people take more than others, but it has nothing to do with age anymore than it does to with ethnicity or nationality. Also, there’s no evidence it has anything to do with being more selfish or narcissistic, as is so often, and so erroneously implied.

    Young people getting politically organised to improve their lot and by extension the world have always been called selfish, entitled, and all sorts of other nasty things by middle class, middle aged people who feel that their privilege is being threatened. Media from the 60s/70s, when you were a frustrated young politico, are full of examples. Adam Conover did an excellent talk on this, illustrated with media evidence from throughout the 20th century. Most importantly, he also shows that “generations” are not even real. They are invented by marketers in an attempt to figure out better ways to sell people stuff by age backet.

    As children of the late 70s, myself and brother #1 are assumed to be “Gen X”. Brother #2 and our two sisters were born in the 80s, so they are assumed to be “Millenials”. Brother #1 is the stereotypical “Millenial”, while my sisters are both much more like the stereotypical “Gen Xer”. It’s all bollocks, pre-digested thoughts for lazy thinkers.

    If that’s the point you’re trying to make, good try, but your piece comes across like exactly the kind of intergenerational chest-puffing I assume you’re trying (and failing) to satirize. It comes across like the smug whining of a comfortable, middle-class codger, sneering down at a cohort of young people for whom getting a job with a living wage or owning a house are now luxuries reserved for the wealthy. Just a small step to the right Chris, and next you’ll be telling young people to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps like you did.

    Except you didn’t, and you know it. Like your former comrades Roger and Richard, you could leave school and walk straight into a job with decent wages, and a cradle-to-grave social welfare system that supplemented them with health care and tertiary training that was so cheap as to be effectively free. You could get a home loan directly from the state, at a fraction of the prices first-home-buyers pay now, and at a fraction of the interest. You had National Awards, where minimum wages and working conditions were ratcheted up every year for *all* workers, by the staunchest negotiators in the entire union movement of the time.

    Although the likes of Roger and Richard (and the rest of the neo-liberal millionaire class) are more responsible for it than you and most other people of their age bracket, it’s true that the ladder has been pulled up behind you, leaving people my age and younger to clamber over each in the mudwrestling pit of an amoral “free market”. If pointing that out and demanding change is akin to arming up and invading rest homes as your piece crudely implies, then let me be the first up the fucking siege engine. Expect us.

  12. I suppose since my comment launched Mr Trotter’s response I should clarify a little.

    Firstly being “hunted in the streets” was a hyperbolic attempt at humour – although given the various meltdowns ahead I wouldn’t totally bet against it.

    I think the “millenials” (let’s say those under 30) and a large part of Gen X (those under 45) have increasingly worked out that the political system offers them sweet F.A – (worse – it milks them like the cows we so rely on).

    So many are organising out of and apart from it – both legally and illegally. Mass disruption is our bread and butter – we welcome opportunities to make different connections and use things like self-funding and crypto-currency to bypass the bloated and corrupt system.

    If we vote we vote for meme induced carnage put-a-stick-in-the-spokes irrationality. Bring on the pirate party. Anything that (at least) slows the life grinding death cult we call “consumer free-market democracy” is good.

    Smug boomers patting us on the head will not induce us to a sympathethic response when the ashes rain upon our collective heads.

    To think the near future will be like the near past is misguided at best. Adapt or die has never been more relevant.

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