While I agree with your basic argument, school prayer was offed before hippies arose. Blame the parents of hippies for that. Moreover, as a lazy person myself, I can assure you that low expectations for lazy people was also attributable to the generation that preceded hippies (and boomers in general).
I remember when we had a school prayer before lunchtime in Texas in 1972. We also had dress codes, girls had to wear skirts or dresses no more than 6 inches above the knee or you were sent home. Of course the school could spank your butt for acting up. My dad always told me that if I ever got into that much trouble at school to deserve a spanking that I would get it twice as bad at home.
“Moreover, as a lazy person myself, I can assure you that low expectations for lazy people was also attributable to the generation that preceded hippies (and boomers in general).”
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Maybe, but as a self-identified lazy boy born during world war two I can assure you that people who think they are hard working today cannot imagine doing the amount of physical labor I used to do as a twelve year old who did his best to avoid work. Most thirty year olds now have never in their entire life done the amount of hard labor I did in my senior year of high school and don’t expect to ever do it if they live to be 100.
My father didn’t get all the work he wanted from me but he certainly didn’t have low expectations.