11-19-2019, 10:20 PM
(11-19-2019, 04:06 AM)AspieMillennial Wrote: 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.
AspieMillennial,
I would compare the relationship between Australian Generation X equivalents and Aussie Boomers with that of the US Lost Generation and the Missionaries, rather than the American Generation X and the Boomers. Since Australia is an Apollonian (like America was during the Great Power Saeculum), not Dionysian saeculum, which America is currently in.
Therefore; Australian Boomers greatly resemble the US Missionaries (both are Apollonian Prophet Generations), if they embraced New Age Spirituality, hence the term I have coined for some Aussie Boomers as 'New Age Missionaries'.
Indeed, Australian Boomers are as anti-illicit drugs as the US Missionaries were anti-alcohol. Not to mention Australian Boomers since the 1990s have engaged in numerous crusades, like the US Missionaries did.
It is notable that the various ‘nanny state’ laws started to be introduced in the 1990s, with two main intentions, that were the following; Deny Xers the freedoms that Boomers enjoyed when they were young, also to protect their Millennial children. This crackdown on the 'bad Xers' includes measures such as various requirements in order to keep receiving unemployment benefits, such as compulsory job search requirements and even participating in 'work for the dole' projects.