# So... there's no rebellious counterculture for the younger generation this time around, then?

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**Created:** [August 24, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-no-rebellious-counterculture-for-the-younger-generation-this-time-around-then/696390 "2014-08-24T18:00:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-no-rebellious-counterculture-for-the-younger-generation-this-time-around-then/696390/21 "2014-08-27T05:26:24Z")

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_All the urgency and energy  
Have turned into complacency.  
Now the schools and universities  
are turning out a brand new breed of young conservatives._

-[The Kinks](http://www.kindakinks.net/discography/showsong.php?song=469), over thirty years ago

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**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-no-rebellious-counterculture-for-the-younger-generation-this-time-around-then/696390/22 "2014-08-27T12:30:58Z")

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I gotta say, Martian Bigfoot, I work at a university and none of what you describe generally applies to the students on this campus, at least. What segment of the youngster population are you speaking of?

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-no-rebellious-counterculture-for-the-younger-generation-this-time-around-then/696390/23 "2014-08-27T13:51:56Z")

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> [@gallows\_fodder](#):
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> I gotta say, Martian Bigfoot, I work at a university and none of what you describe generally applies to the students on this campus, at least. What segment of the youngster population are you speaking of?

Those on Mars, apparently.

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**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-no-rebellious-counterculture-for-the-younger-generation-this-time-around-then/696390/24 "2014-08-27T14:37:51Z")

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To me today’s young people seem very nice in general, though my perspective may be clouded by also being a university employee. Definitely smart, maybe a little smug about it (but what generation wasn’t?), pragmatic rather than ideological. Socially adept and mostly thoughtful of others but maybe a little light on philosophical introspection and fairly dismissive of history as a basis for why things are the way they are.

I actually have pretty high hopes for them as they mature.

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**Author:** ![Lemmytheseal2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@Lemmytheseal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemmytheseal2)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-no-rebellious-counterculture-for-the-younger-generation-this-time-around-then/696390/25 "2014-08-27T15:40:11Z")

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> [@PSXer](#):
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> yeah there is
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> there’s occupy wall street

Which was/is all-ages.

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**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-theres-no-rebellious-counterculture-for-the-younger-generation-this-time-around-then/696390/26 "2014-08-27T16:23:31Z")

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One word: Furries

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