The 60's youth was the first generation that managed to fool itself into an assumption of moral superiority and actually manage to hang onto that illusion into maturity (if you can call it that). It's a sort of cultural arrested adolescence, and is the reason so many of them cling so desperately to adolescent politics, adolescent morality, adolescent self-images. It's the reason so many indulge in such grotesque behaviors as frying their epidermises on tanning beds and injecting bacterial toxins into their faces to prevent the honorable signs of age. And yes, I'm "talkin' about my g-g-g-generation..."
Some icons of the 1960s (Timothy Leary, the Beats, some of the "protest" leaders) weren't baby boomers but they embraced the wave of hedonism (and young flesh). They also made a fortune off it.
"The 60's youth was the first generation that managed to fool itself into an assumption of moral superiority and actually manage to hang onto that illusion into maturity (if you can call it that)."
Noooo..... the scariest thing was that they managed to fool their ELDERS into thinking that 'the kids' were the wise ones... that authority was illegitimate... the keepers of the civilization just threw wide the doors to those who wanted to trash it. And trash it they did.
It's the nature of the boom itself. You are surrounded by millions of people who think just like you do, it makes you think you are right. You are Special. You are The Consumer. Your wants and needs run the economy. Everything is tailored for You.
If there were fewer of them, they naturally wouldn't have been so annoying and self-righteous.