To: Poet who wrote (1594 ) 8/6/2001 10:25:47 AM From: Neocon Read Replies (1) | Respond to Actually, the fascination with the Boomers is only somewhat a matter of narcissism. I think it is difficult for us to imaging how the world has changed since the Revolution. The pace of economic, technological, and social change in the last 200 hundred years has been astounding, and created a world unlike any that had come before. But the watershed, in a lot of ways, was the post- War period, at least for the developed world. Suddenly, there was broad- based affluence, remarkable social freedom, and the opportunity to have such a thing as a teen culture. This was not the only important thing to occur, but it was in itself remarkable, and became intertwined with much else that was novel in the latter part of the century. (Tom Wolfe, incidentally, is particularly good on these questions).
