Generation vs Generation? Drugs vs Tech?

The adults of the 1960’s weren’t as recreational as the youth of their day; only 4% of the adult population had actually tried the drug. This is amazing considering that the 1960’s and the 70’s were known as a drug era.  Youth in the 60’s brought a lot of new things to our attention as a society and brought a new way of living with their movement of peace and love. In our day and age it’s a little different, the movement is all about social media and our technological need to be connected.

The generational gap is there and it’s out there in the open for all to see, I pulled a small survey among my friends and co-workers all aged between 16-25, typically what we consider youth, out of the 25 people that I had surveyed 23 of them answered that they needed their phones on them.  If you do the math that’s 92%, that’s an outstanding number comparing it to the kind of technology they had in the 60’s. This just goes to show that our most of our youth is really hooked onto a certain amount of “affection” if you will from our phones via Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr or any other form of social media. Whereas the hippie movement believed strongly in a community, and caring for each, as well as a bunch of drugs like marijuana and LSD other instead of insignificant “likes” or “thumbs up” from the aforementioned social media outlets.

Millenials over taken by social media

This is not to say that the Hippie movement represents the whole youth, but for the most part everyone depicts that as their generation, and ours depicted by our constant use of technology.  These are just the social parameters to which people judge the past and the present, there are bound to be differences in the mainstream articles that you read but once you dig deeper I’m sure you will find something in common with your previous generation, whether it be the Great Generation, Generation Y, Generation X, or the Millennials and vice versa.  

The Generational Relations