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OK Boomer: It's Not About Age. It's About Attitude
Paperback
Series: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books for Adults), Book 38
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 13 2020
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.08 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Boomer always complains at the store. But it was on sale yesterday! When yesterday's sale is no longer active and Boomer is the last person to discover this, the manager is involved, and the manager's day has taken a turn. This book catalogues the full Boomer experience: the complaints, the certainty, the specific relationship with customer service that transforms every transaction into an opportunity for a perspective that the transaction did not request. This is not about age. The book is clear about this. It is about a worldview that has calcified in a specific direction, and the worldview is well-documented here.
This adult parody book is cultural satire delivered through illustrated cartoon art, and the target is not a generation but an attitude: the attitude of absolute certainty in one's own perspective combined with a comprehensive inability to absorb information that challenges that perspective. The attitude is widespread. The attitude is recognizable. The attitude has been named. The book is named after the name. It's not about age. Ask Boomer. Boomer will tell you at length. Boomer has opinions about the book's premise that the book anticipated and documented in advance.
This Book IS For:- Anyone who has worked retail, customer service, or any public-facing role and has developed strong opinions about certain attitudes
- Adults who have used the phrase OK Boomer in a situation they immediately understood was correct even before they finished saying it
- Fans of cultural satire that identifies a real behavioral pattern and renders it in cartoon form with complete accuracy
- Gift-givers who want to make a specific cultural observation to someone who will receive it with recognition
- People who have received the phrase OK Boomer directed at them and are still processing the attribution
- Anyone who believes this is about age and will be telling you so at length in the comments section
- Readers who find generational humor divisive and would prefer we focus on what connects us, which is a Boomer thing to say
- Boomer, who will not find this funny and whose opinion on the matter has already been noted with the energy the phrase suggests
- Gag gifts for service industry workers who have earned this recognition through direct and ongoing experience
- White elephant exchanges at events where there is a Boomer in the room and everyone knows which person that is
- Gifts for the friend who sent you the OK Boomer meme first and deserves the physical artifact version
- Any occasion where a cultural observation is warranted and the direct approach would create a scene that doesn't need creating
The generational discourse has produced a lot of content that is either earnest analysis or defensive response. This book is neither. It is illustrated documentation of a behavioral pattern that has a name, and the name is fine, and the pattern is real, and the cartoon art makes it visible without a dissertation about economic conditions and housing markets. The joke is the attitude. The attitude is right there. In the store. Asking for yesterday's price.
OK Boomer. It's not about age. The book said so. Buy it. Give it to someone in retail. Give it to someone with a Boomer in their orbit. Give it to someone who needs to see their read confirmed. The manager has been called. The situation is documented. The sale ended yesterday.
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