We live in very hard times, and for several years, not only now that we have also been affected by a biblical virus. But we have been going out for different decades, much more relaxed, enjoying ourselves, indulgent, which after the demographic boom of the post-war years have seen generations succeed one another at an ever faster pace. These were years in which adults had decided that they could reach for a promising future with
more and more children. Then came the movement of '68 (in the USA started a few years earlier) to convince many of those adults that the education of their children would be very different from that suffered by their parents: enough prohibitions, moralisms, obligations, better a ' soft education, not prohibitions but advice, not dogmas but explanations. I will take you into the woods, my little one, but not to abandon you, to take you by the hand and accompany you on the path that you
will be free to choose. And if out of ignorance, out of arrogance you make a mistake? It doesn't matter, I'll always be there to take you back, to save you.
We could not have known, however, that in this way the authority of the family guide-figure was undermined, it seems indispensable for balanced growth. After the 1970s dominated by the threat of a call to arms for the Americans, by internal terrorism for us, we have reached the period of Reaganian hedonism, the reviled '80s with their explosion of vitality. All free even more than before doing what you wanted, right or wrong, happiness was a right to be obtained at any cost, far from moral constraints, relieved of demanding ideologies, all centered on themselves (these are the years of infamous "because I'm worth!"). Meanwhile, more and more names were assigned to the overlapping generations, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, Generation Z, making even those older than just a decade feel like a bitch.
