Well...yes and no....
And it occurred throughout the Western world.
So, how to explain this world-wide phenomenon? Attitudes, human nature, and the crossroads of history.
Yup. Democgraphics certainly plays a role in the changing conditions our kids are facing today.
Every young generation in modern times has pushed the moral envelop. Nothing especially unusual about the baby boom in that respect. My fathr's generation shocked their fathers generation who shocked THEIR father's generation too.
The human attempt for self gratification is till kept in check by religion, morality and the law. All those have changed over time, but all those were changing generation by generation for at least the last 500 years.
Yes, our EXPECTATION of continuingly growing affluence (in America) has been thwarted, no doubt.
If boomers were SO SPOILED, (which is what the above suggests) then WHY did they work more hours on average than their father did? Why did they become better educated than their fathers? This MYTH that the boomers were layabouts who had it SO
easy is entirely bullshit.
That is the core of the error.....
Again with the SPOILED GENERATION explanation? I'm not buying it.
Not sure what the above means.
"Every young generation in modern times has pushed the moral envelop. Nothing especially unusual about the baby boom in that respect."
Wow....sometimes I'm amazed as your ability to close your eyes to reality and the confluence of related events.
As I pointed out, the generation in question did as you suggest, rebel, not in itself unusual....
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but it incorporated Marxism, and that was the fuel that aimed to destroy Western civilization.
Shall I prove that?
The unrest of the sixties was born in
June of 1962 at the AFL-CIO camp at Port Huron, Michigan.
Some prior rumblings had been heard in a nascent civil rights movement, and from the Free Speech movement at Berkeley- but it was the Port Huron meetings that represented the heart of Sixties radicalism.
1. Port Huron was an early convention of SDS, a small group of alienated, left-wing college students, 59 from 11 campuses.
2. One member gave this prescription:
four-square against anti-Communism, eight-square against American-culture, twelve-square against sell-out unions, one hundred and twenty against an interpretation of the Cold War that saw it as a Soviet plot and identified American policy fondly.
Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, p. 109-110
3. A draft of the meeting can be found at
Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society, 1962.
It sets forth
an agenda for changing human nature, the nation, and the world. In it, one can hear the ignorance and arrogance so inherent in adolescents: the euphoria due to being convinced of their own wisdom, moral purity, and ability to change everything.
4. A few years after Port Huron, its organizations offshoot and legitimate heir, the
Weathermen, organized the Days of Rage riots in Chicago. At a subsequent War Council, Tom Hayden led the Weathermen in a workout of karate jabs and kicks for a strenuous fifteen minutes in preparation for armed struggle.
Collier and Horowitz, Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About The Sixties, p. 96
Changing human nature is at the heart of the movement.....
5. The Constitution commemorates our revolution, and, as Madison states in the Federalist, is the greatest of all reflections on human nature
human beings are not angels. Communist Revolution is based on the idea of transforming human nature.
The New Soviet man or New Soviet person (Russian: новый советский человек

, as postulated by the ideologists of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was an archetype of a person with certain qualities that were said to be
emerging as dominant among all citizens of the Soviet Union, irrespective of the country's long-standing cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversity, creating a single Soviet people, Soviet nation.[1]
New Soviet man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a. Leon Trotsky wrote in his Literature and Revolution [2] :
"The human species, the sluggish Homo sapiens, will once again enter
the stage of radical reconstruction and become in his own hands the object of the most complex methods of artificial selection and psychophysical training... Man will make it his goal...to create a higher sociobiological type, a superman, if you will"
New Soviet man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
b. Culture is a stubborn opponent. The Soviet Union attempted to create the New Soviet Man with gulags, psychiatric hospitals, and firing squads for seventy years and succeeded only in producing a more corrupt culture.
Bork, Slouching Toward Gomorrah, p. 198
c. Progressives have a similar view: human nature is plastic; politics is a means of perfecting man!
I certainly hope your study has included
the Frankfurt School of neo-Marxism, and its influence in our colleges.