But doesn't the next generation always try to get away from what the other one was? Such as making this generations children more conservative?
Err, no. We're talking about 'my' generation - people roughly between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four - not the toddlers and grade schoolers of today. And 'my' generation is unusually tolerant of divergent lifestyles, though we tend to be a little on the conservative side economically. If what you say is true, the people coming after me will be slightly more conservative socially, but economically liberal. As it stands, though, things will never go back to the way they were in the 1980s, hallelujah.
