This truth especially for the kids of successful people. Kids want to enjoy the spoils of whatever the parents earned. And it’s true on a large political scale: the parents who went through WWII and the Depression wanted their kids to avoid such hardships. The Hippie revolt against mom and dad and government (Big Daddy) happened at a time when the American economy was booming and there was a hedonistic and moral laxity in the air: do your own thing, sex drugs and Rock & Roll, drop out turn on, etc. Idealism rather than practicality was the virtue of choice. The hard learned success of mom and dad gave rise to kids that wanted to waste their life away “finding themselves” in Tibet. And these Children of God, the ME generation, who went to Woodstock became spoiled children for the rest of their life. (I think part of the reason they like being children is that they don’t have to think about getting old and dying. It’s a self-sustaining solipsistic state of supposed innocence and God like self flattery and delusion. However, getting old is inevitable and second childhood will just be the continuation of a permanent state of childhood.) Anyway, the whole thing is almost Oedipal in that hatred of government (Big Daddy, the Man, the Industrial-Military Complex) comes about through wanting to be spoiled and loved by MOM. Mom is now the generous side of government entitlements and benefits. So success breeds failure.
Well said!
The Woodstock Generation hated government. The young brainwashed skulls full of mush worship it.