Affluence and permissive upbringing sensitized 1960s youth to achievement society’s costs.

Evidence

This generation has probably grown up with more psychological understanding, and with a more liberal upbringing and more permissive attitudes, than any that has preceded it … If we take, in addition, the fact that this generation is the first to have grown up under economic conditions of greater ease, and has therefore been under less psychological pressure from the labour market than its predecessors, then a hypothetical connection arises which may allow us to explain the peculiar sensibility of the young activists. They have been sensitized to the costs, in terms of individual life-history, of a society marked by competition for status and achievement, and by the bureaucratization of every area of existence. These costs appear to them to be disproportionately high in relation to the potential technological advantages involved … It may well be that the decay of parental authority and the spread of permissive methods in education have made experiences possible for children growing up, and required them to find their bearings, in ways that on the one hand must inevitably come into conflict with the standards of an ideology of achievement, but on the other hand converge with the technological potential available, which society has not yet released, for leisure and freedom, satisfaction and pacification. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 663

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier learned claim that permissive upbringing and affluence produced the student rebels’ new sensibility — here in Habermas’s own formulation. — connects to: Permissive upbringing and affluence sensitized young activists to achievement ideology’s costs — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2652; Affluence and permissive upbringing produced the student rebels’ new sensibility; Postwar prosperity prompted adolescents to reject phoniness and seek meaning — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 890
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Permissive upbringing and affluence sensitized young activists to achievement ideology’s costs — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2652; Affluence and permissive upbringing produced the student rebels’ new sensibility; Postwar prosperity prompted adolescents to reject phoniness and seek meaning — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 890

Broader Connections

• Permissive upbringing and affluence sensitized young activists to achievement ideology’s costs #corroborates (0.98) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2652
• Affluence and permissive upbringing produced the student rebels’ new sensibility #expands (0.92)