No one here said younger generations are capable of similar. What is being said here is the over-arching early-life experience of those born in the Baby Boomer

No one here said younger generations are capable of similar. What is being said here is the over-arching early-life experience of those born in the Baby Boomer generation differs from that of later generations on the basis of economics and the resulting socioeconomic hopes and fears of the milieu, and that this difference colors the ways people of different generations interpret themselves and the systems they inhabit. Citing exceptions has little to do with the conversation at hand, for the obvious reason that different people grow up in different socioeconomic situations even within the same generation. Nonetheless, a clear pattern emerges in attitudes towards this or that "personal freedom" on the basis of what a person can imagine can be done with those freedoms. These are obviously culturally-based attitudes, and obviously cultures differ between generations. What about this are you finding so controversial?