> So they shaped a false and convenient image of what it means to be an "adult", such as putting work above family and personal life. I think there are also su

> So they shaped a false and convenient image of what it means to be an "adult", such as putting work above family and personal life. I think there are also substantial geopolitical forces in play. Consider the hippie movement in the 60s as an example: yes it's true that there was no shortage of silliness and plain dumb ideas, but there were also a lot of genuinely enlightened ideas. But letting those bloom and spread at that point in time (considering what was going on geopolitically) could have had genuinely disastrous results. But then at the same time, if it hadn't been snuffed out the very opposite could have also occurred, in which case we might now be living in a much better world than the one we ended up with.