boomerism

English

Etymology

boomer +‎ -ism

Noun

boomerism (uncountable)

1. An optimistic form of American capitalism that focuses on one industry.
   • 2009, Harold Bloom, Huck Finn, →ISBN, page 94:

     Boomerism, then, was the most recent expression of the westering American spirit.

   • 2014, Melissa Walker, James C. Cobb, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, →ISBN:

     Yet if the boosterism of the “dollar decade” had a sounder basis in reality than did the boomerism of the 1880s, there was ballyhoo in generous measure all the way from the Mason-Dixon Line to Florida's Gold Coast.

   • 2016, Neil Evans, Huw Pryce, Writing a Small Nation's Past, →ISBN:

     The hyper-masculinity, optimism and enthusiastic boomerism of the American frontier moulded the young Briton's character.

   • 2017, William Irwin Thompson, Self and Society, →ISBN:

     So I side with the mystics and think that the mechanists are caught in the boomerism of American hypercapitalism and are simply hawking their wares. In this unreflective boomerism of American hypercapitalism, one has to hype one's project to attract venture capital.

2. The behaviours and attitudes of baby boomers.
   • 1995, Mike Regele, Mark Schulz, Death of the Church, →ISBN, page 227:

     Be warned against the tendency to build your young lives around anti-boomerism. In the end, it will be you that gets hurt, not the boomers.

   • 2013, Scott Balcerzak, Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity, →ISBN:

     Examples include: Bob Hope providing a queered alternative to World War II mythologies of maleness (something already addressed by Steven Cohan); Ierry Lewis's manic “femininity” as a reaction to 1950 sexual conservatism (as explored by Frank Krutnik); John Belushi embracing the runaway consumption of 1970 maleness; Bill Murray displaying the evolving cynicism of disillusioned baby boomers; Adam Sandler depicting a childish rage as a rejection of boomerism; and Ferrell often performing lampoons of previous generations of machismo.

   • 2014, Brian Cogan, Thom Gencarelli, Baby Boomers and Popular Culture, →ISBN:

     The moment of rupture between the “hippie” and “yuppie” manifestations of baby boomerism is typically dated to the first presidential term of Ronald Reagan—or, even more specifically, to the moment when Reagan (a bastion of the older “greatest generation”) was shot by John Hinckley (a baby boomer) (Casale and Lerman 2002, 128).