So what went wrong? What made so many Boomers get into drugs, free love, anti War treason, and anti authoritarian notions so extreme that many people became unmanageable?
Drugs have always been around, Cocaine was very popular in the 20's and the early 1900's as well as Heroin... I assume you are talking of the Hippie Anti-Establishment movement, they were young rebelled agaisnt the hypocritical puritanical views of there parents. Dad could drink a 5th of Bourboun but smoking Pot was of the devil.
I guess the sexual revolution was based upon the fact that many women were not allowed to be sexual,they did not think sex was for enjoyment, rather than a function used to please the man and to produce babies.
Vietnam? what was that war for anyways?
Baby Boomers did not get us into that mess.
All of this has been taken to the extreme, but it was an era of rebellion.