11-05-2016, 09:30 PM
(11-05-2016, 03:17 PM)taramarie Wrote: Why do you think that is? Regarding the difference in attitude that the lost had for the missionaries (majority of course) compared to how some xers feel about the boomers? Could it be that they messed up the culture and economy, (other generations participated of course), they were along for the ride in the mess up and they never quite got around to fixing it, creating instability that did not favour Xers? Of course boomers being such a massive generation who were the elders taking power and were at the core of this cultural change they were blamed for the mess. In NZ it is a similar story yet ended quite differently. Thankfully ours wanted to fix long standing issues and put them into law to cement them. Majority agreed with the consensus because the people were willing to accept it compared to other years. There was one thing though they could never crack down on and that was drugs.
From what I know of history and comments from GI and Lost that I knew, the Missionary Generation was never quite as insane as the Boomers got. Unlike the Boomers they did not think that society could arbitrarily be altered. This was particularly true after the massive failure of Prohibition. If anything the religious revival associated with them was something to be expected of American culture. What the Boomers did was a complete departure and their so-called spiritualism was more a cover for their hedonism than anything else.
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises