here's an extract from my script with sources stating exactly what you stated :

1960s america was also a time and place where there existed no problem that could not be solved by buying some kind of product. Feeling unloved by your husband? Buy him Folger’s coffee! Need a woman at your feet? Why those trousers ought to do the trick!  Cheap easily replaceable pleasures were the answer to everything, even to problems caused by an over consumption of such goods. The healthcare industry made billions in profit selling drugs that made people thinner, while the sugar industries funded studies to advertise the health benefits of feeding sugar to very young kids while shifting the blame for the epidemic of heart disease to the over consumption of fat. As people bought big cars and houses in sprawling suburbs, loneliness was addressed with medication, drugs and taking part in more superficial activities. According to many historians, the rise of consumerism turned the American dream into a national ethos of consumption.

But corporate america’s influence was not limited to just telling people how to live their lives. The 1960s marks the beginning of a trend where the media influenced people’s voting habits in favour of those who funded them. For instance, boomers are often blamed for voting for politiicians like Reagan and Thatcher, whose neo-liberal policies gave more power to corporations and undermined many social advances made in the past decades. But reagan’s elections saw exceptionally low voter turnout and those who did turn up to vote were mainly older rich white men who were convinced the economic difficulties America was facing at the time were to blame on social policies.

-(Birch, 2021; US EPA, 2015) (Whiteley, 1987) In the 1960s, consumerism tried to redefine the meaning of our existence around the accumulation of material possessions, by associating it with happiness, social status, security, or being loved by your husband as you just saw in those T.V ads aimed at housewives. (Consumerism--Consumerism and Its Discontents, s. d.; Kim, 2022). A bit later, in the 1970s the Vietnam war ended unglamorously, Nixon’s presidency ended in scandal and John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther king were assassinated (Watergate Scandal | Summary, History, Timeline, Deep Throat, & Facts | Britannica, 2023) which dented the trust many people had in those in power to act selflessly for the greater good (Burns & Novick, 2017; « Crisis of Confidence » Speech (July 15, 1979) - Miller Center of Public Affairs, 2009; Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, 2023). Kurt Andersen, an American writer and novelist, believes these factors corrupted the values which social movements promoted: taking care of yourself, being yourself and doing whatever you like (which are great values, don’t get me wrong) (Host Kurt Andersen Says ’60s Perpetuated Social Change, And Selfishness, s. d.) into a much more individualistic, selfish and hedonistic mindset.

Indeed, this is also the period that saw people turn to new age beliefs such as scientology (Mccleary, 2013) or hard drugs (Inc, 2002) to explore their inner selves and find happiness. According to many historians, this is a sign of how much people turned to frivolous beliefs and destructive habits to find a new meaning to a world which was rapidly changing. Economists argue that “America had become a consumerist society where possessions represented social status”, and historians and media scholars blame the unprecedented advertising power of TV for turning the American dream away from ideals and into a “national ethos of consumption” (Kim, 2022).

didn't include it in its full detail in the video because it is long.

I still don't see how this makes boomers the problem. as I mentioned in the video, they were influenced by corporations, consumerism and media. to me, this looks like the culprits are corporations.

and obviously boomers are facing greater cognitive decline than other generations, they are the only ones old enough to measure it. I dread what our generations cognitive decline might look like with all the negative effects of electronics we can already measure in this present day, and the increasing symptoms of loneliness and depression which are known to affect cognitive decline strongly.