[jimbob45]

We can’t start living in hamster balls just because something might be dangerous. Many of us grew up with a Facebook or a FB-like and survived just fine because our parents understood that it’s the parent’s job to parent, not Facebook’s. When are we going to start pointing the finger where it belongs - the deficient parenting?

[drekipus]

Yeah kids, listen to your dang parents, not that hip social media.

"Why would anyone do drugs when they can just mow a lawn"

[klyrs]

Parents these days are children of the hippie generation. "Hey kids, why mow a lawn when you can tear it up and replant it with weed? You'll make a lot more money that way..."

[Broken_Hippo]

Are you so sure about your timeline? Don't most folks place hippies in the 60's and early 70's?

That's my mother's generation. People my age are having grandchildren - I'm in my mid 40's. We dressed up as hippies from time to time, though. A lot of today's parents were born in the mid 80's to 2000, approximately (a few stragglers on either side). I really don't think this is the hippie generation.

I'll add that smoking pot is much, much more widespread than anything "hippie", even if someone takes on part of hippiedom as their personality. In fact, a lot of folks look to older hippies and laugh because they were wrong about it never being legal again.

[klyrs]

Meh, I'm in my 40s and have a young kid, and my parents were hippie-adjacent. Some people breed faster; generations are a horrible measure of time.

[Broken_Hippo]

The point really is that most folks having children are younger: You aren't, and you still aren't the hippie generation.

Generations are a horrible measure of time, to an extent, but they do bind people together with events and movements at times and I'm pretty sure this is one of those. Plus, I'm not sure what would take their place that is actually better.