My theory or may be really only a working concept is that the link from didactic inputs is only one factor molding the culture of each generation. Another force that may be on occasion greater is the natural tendency to react against the mores of the generation who are composing those lessons that are being delivered. The parents of the Boomers were the generation that experienced from their parents the full tide of Progressivism and the disillusion with Western Civilization after WW-I. The Boomers were fed Matt Dillon by their parents, the Greatest Generation, and many responded with socialism, bad sex, drugs, and toilet humor. The generation raised on the results and the preachy Leftist homilies of Law &amp; Order and Without a Trace are rebelling in their own way.