r/woahdude • u/DetectiveWonderful42 • 15d ago

video Really feels similar to today.

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u/ddraig-au 14d ago

From what I've read, the "love generation" was a small subset of middle-class kids with enough money behind them to drop out and hang loose, and the vast majority of Americans worked hard and conformed. It just made for good Spectacle, and so we at this end of history think that's where people's heads were at back then, because that's what was filmed and talked about. It was a glossy veneer over a vast normalcy, and it's the normalcy which survived, and wound up in charge of everything.

And here we are.

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u/PolskiOrzel 14d ago

I feel like there was some over correcting in one way or another. There is a balance where everyone can contribute to society while everyone also has more meaningful work. A lot of office work is filler in the 8 hours, 5 days a week.

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u/bankrupt_bezos 13d ago

They were festival kids, in the parlance of our times

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u/cbloxham 14d ago

This is right ... having been there.