I think that the social changes from the 1960's onwards (and maybe a bit earlier) achieved many good things, racial tolerance and womens legal equality for instance, however in other areas I seriously question that they did much good and probably did a lot of harm, for instance social values and the family took a hell of a beating, the western world today is covered in broken families and marriages as a result. We also have legacies of where they went TOO far, such as with banes such as political correctness and multiculturalism.

As for the greatest generation of the last 100 years, I'm going to say the generation who fought WWI, who raised their kids through the Great Depression and led the armies in WWII.


The entire late 20th century it sometimes seems is just one big series of aftershocks from 1914-1945.