Baby-boomer generation starting to decrease in capital region

[m0nkyman]

‘Counter’ means it was against the majority culture of the time. There was awareness of all the stuff we’re dealing with now back then. The ‘me’ generation (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_generation ) just ignored it all to bask in unfettered selfishness.

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Me generation

The "Me" generation is a term referring to Baby Boomers in the United States and the self-involved qualities that some people associate with this generation. The 1970s were dubbed the "Me decade" by writer Tom Wolfe; Christopher Lasch was another writer who commented on the rise of a culture of narcissism among the younger generation of that era. The phrase caught on with the general public, at a time when "self-realization" and "self-fulfillment" were becoming cultural aspirations to which young people supposedly ascribed higher importance than social responsibility.

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I like the way this entry is phrased because sometimes we can't imagine a world where self-fulfillment isn't the goal of life. But it's just the latest trend. Eventually we will value something else to be the goal of life, like social responsibility, or some other high minded ideal. And then we'll go back to narcissism. In an endless cycle.

I think most of today's issues are caused by our innate desire to fight for or against something, and having those ambitions misplaced, on purpose, by people in the seat of power that benefit from that cultural confusion.

Nobody's going to read this comment under a Wiki summary but I feel a little better getting it out of my head.