01-01-2020, 04:26 PM
(11-20-2019, 03:03 AM)Hintergrund Wrote:(11-19-2019, 04:06 AM)AspieMillennial Wrote:(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.
'k, then explain why they became the most incarcerated generation of American history. Those X-ers who only see that they had lots of freedom were just lucky.
The "freedom" was mostly the neglect and permissiveness of parents. Latch-key kids and such. That's why Xers are self-reliant and inner-directed.
But the freedom of the 2T and the neglect led to high crime, "youth problems" and anti-social behavior, which the authors said were rising among boomers as the boomer years went on and reached the peak among core Xers. The peak happened in 1990, and soon after the US crime bill was passed. Since then neglect has declined and boomers became helicopter parents of millennial kids. Now Gen Z kids are considered to be nice and helpful.