so true.  we were the ones that were gonna "fix" sexism, racism, poverty, more   -isms.  think we made it worse.  we created a generation, our kids, that were raised "with reason" and left "to discover for themselves"  their way into a productive life.  that translated into lax "home rules", lax "school rules" , rudeness,  a  lack of respect or appreciation for people or things,  lack of empathy, over inflated ego turned into narcissism and no sense of boundaries.  this is a wide generalization of course.  but in a nutshell, the permissive counter culture,  seeped into mainline culture and a lack of, or blurring of, right and wrong superseded old style family values.  then we started going to h*ll in a hand basket.  hey I was there as a hippy and followed the "hippy rules" - at fault as much as anybody. .