All good stuff PC.
However, being a member of that immediate post war generation, we were as rebellious as any generation. Every generation pushes the envelope re values of its parents and grandparents, else civilization would never evolve; never progress; never advance. But in the end, most of us recognized the value of and adopted most of the core culture of our parents and most of us were mostly unaffected and unwooed by the anti culture revolution. It was a segment of the baby boomers who joined the anti-culture revolution, but by no means all of them.
Still, it was that generation of the 1960's which was the first to totally reject the traditional American values of their parents and our society. And because they seized the power in education and the media, I think is a huge reason that our society has been in a state of gradual decline ever since. As we have seen in Russia and China and India, such rejection of the existing culture has generally not turned out well for many of the people.
Those traditional American values had formed the core of a Republic in which people, and not an authoritarian government, successfully governed themselves. Once that responsibility is shifted to government, the society becomes far more selfish, far more self serving, far more demanding. The free market begins breaking down and the nanny state emerges as those with unprecedented power become drunk on it and shift the emphasis to increasing and protecting it.
However, being a member of that immediate post war generation, we were as rebellious as any generation. Every generation pushes the envelope re values of its parents and grandparents, else civilization would never evolve; never progress; never advance. But in the end, most of us recognized the value of and adopted most of the core culture of our parents and most of us were mostly unaffected and unwooed by the anti culture revolution. It was a segment of the baby boomers who joined the anti-culture revolution, but by no means all of them.
Still, it was that generation of the 1960's which was the first to totally reject the traditional American values of their parents and our society. And because they seized the power in education and the media, I think is a huge reason that our society has been in a state of gradual decline ever since. As we have seen in Russia and China and India, such rejection of the existing culture has generally not turned out well for many of the people.
Those traditional American values had formed the core of a Republic in which people, and not an authoritarian government, successfully governed themselves. Once that responsibility is shifted to government, the society becomes far more selfish, far more self serving, far more demanding. The free market begins breaking down and the nanny state emerges as those with unprecedented power become drunk on it and shift the emphasis to increasing and protecting it.
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