Hi Travis, I wanted to counter you with something I read this weekend, which I think was on your recommendation. I'm reading They Thought They Were Free by Milton Meyer. In fact, I'm struggling to stop reading it and do something else. I can't get it out of my head. Anyway, here is one of Meyer's masterful quotes:

There were two truths, and they were not contradictory: the truth that Nazis

were happy and the truth that anti-Nazis were unhappy. And in the America of the

1950’s—I do not mean to suggest that the two situations are parallel or even more

than very tenuously comparable—those who did not dissent or associate with dis-

senters saw no mistrust or suspicion beyond the great community’s mistrust and

suspicion of dissenters, while those who dissented or believed in the right to dis-

sent saw nothing but mistrust and suspicion and felt its devastation. As there were

two Americas, so, in a much more sharply drawn division, there were two Ger-

manys. And so, just as there is when one man dreads the policeman on the beat

and another waves “Hello” to him, there are two countries in every country.

I would say there are 2 generations to every generation, also. There are Boomers who agitated and Boomers who shut down agitators. The Boomers got farther and made more progress on a lot of subjects than their parents ever did. We let the phrase "Greatest Generation" cover up a lot of sins.