11-19-2019, 04:06 AM
(11-19-2019, 02:24 AM)Teejay Wrote:(11-11-2019, 01:04 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:(11-11-2019, 10:41 AM)AspieMillennial Wrote: People say that the 3T is supposed to be about relaxing restrictions and having more freedoms but many more laws have been passed since 1997 to restrict freedom. Anti social behavior orders come to mind and so does the current knife control and past gun control efforts. This is also said to be a time of individualism. Yet anti social behavior orders and the very stringent laws passed are against the individual.Relaxing restrictions is actually a 2T hallmark, free love being the most obvious example. 3Ts are actually times of crackdowns on deviant behavior, the Big Three being the major crackdowns on public smoking, drunk driving and sexual harassment, which were force fed to whatever holdouts there were. And during the previous 3T there was the all out prohibition of liquor.
Especially when you an Apollonian Idealist generation, like the American Missionaries were, along with both the British Generation 68ers and Aussie Boomers are.
From what you describe about the crackdowns on everything during your teen years, it doesn't seem like Gen X teen years. Gen X was allowed a very high amount of freedom in the US for both their childhood and teen years. They grew up very unrestricted and wild. Gen X in the US is seen as the forgotten generation. The big restrictions that you described happening were things Gen Xers in the US never faced.