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It felt this same way in the turbulent part of the 'Sixties . Many 15 to 30 year olds felt a disaster coming for the U.S., if not by revolution, then by self-destruction. They felt the strong pull of a counter culture, a New Age, and a palpable sense of Change. They didn't use the same terminology, but they were ready for RBC, a concept which I hope didn't depend on the Internet for its genius, but rather on its essence and the simple fact that its time had come.
It is not fair to judge everyone who longed for the return to the land and communal living by my own experience but it's all I have to go on. We thought we failed because we were all children of the ME first new consciousness and the permissive age in families to encourage creativity. We also had to graduate from alcohol to drugs, something no previous generation had faced. We were blindsided by the sex revolution. It was never clearly defined, but intro of birth control pills in 1960 and acceleration of change in public mores put more pressure on the Ozzie and Harriets and the Cleaver family than they could withstand, morally speaking.
AND THAT WAS THE STRAIGHT WORLD!
