I've decided to become 60. I have decided that I don't want to wait the eight years I would normally have in front of me because I am already culturally and economically 60.

There are some meaningful upsides to being 60 for me. First, everyone will tell me how great I look; I could use that feedback. Second, the change of age will put me on the right side of the new generation gap that's sprung up. That's something I guess I would say a lot of us were getting a whiff of in the past few years, and now that whiff has turned into an awful, stomach-churning stench resulting in all kinds of "mad-as-hell" and tea-party behavior.

In a November piece in Seeking Alpha, James Quinn, a freelance writer, wrote what I think should become a seminal piece on the "Baby Boom" generation, which he defines as people born from 1946 to 1963. Quinn makes a distinction that I haven't seen made too often between what he calls the early Boomers and the late Boomers, and describes them to a certain extent as the "haves" and "have-nots."

The behavioral contrasts between the early Boomers and the late...