Doctor Stephen Marmer, ucla and Burt Kaufman:
Most younger (and many others of the 'love generation mentality' we might add) folks today are largely immature, 'spoiled brats,' lacking resiliency and easily blame others for their own insufficiencies.
May we add the word 'Dems' here, too- those of the lockstep 'opinions' who will as easily debate a subject as they will cut off their left arms.
It's mostly a generational thing with those born after 1965 having much less resiliency (around 1 or 2 on scale of 10) as compared to those born before 1965 who are resilient over 6 or 7, according to
Marmer.
1965 is an appropriate transition year to choose when the country quickly transitioned from a more conservative post war mentality to the liberal 'love generation' thinking. And it would never return to its 'golden era' postwar principles.
So blame much of this , if you want, on my own Baby Boomer generation who may have been born with the pre-1965 values but 'dropped out' to the love generation , and in many cases never went back. Its not to say it's all the baby boomers' doing by any means but 1965 was the line of demarcation after the JFK assassination and when the Johnson civil rights legislation opened things up to a growingly liberalized society and started regarding people by race and colour status rather than color-blind efficiency and, as 'Do what we can for the country rather than what the country can do for us.'
We've since turned JFK'S WORDS upside down To where we are today with a prospective President choosing his Cabinet almost soley on the basis of skin colour or race or gender preference rather than experience and ability.
Post- 1965 parenting failed to instill a sense of 'Pick-yourself-up-by-the bootstraps' mentality that we saw in the post-war era. Parents, if they weren't already, became squishy, lenient, "love generation" parents who tried to be more like friends to their kids than parents, letting them do things that they themselves would do, be it smoking marihuana , engaging in Multiple sex partners,e t c.
Shall we call this new generation of people the "lockSTEP generation "- a take-off on the STEPford generation? And so it goes... perhaps a oversimplified but still accurate explanation of how we society turned 180 degrees to where we are today.
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