>Not "Is the country better off," "Is the average citizen better off," or even "Are your friends and neighbors better off," but "Are YOU better off?"

My mother and I have had a number of arguments in which she maintains that everything wrong with society was due to the sixties, and I maintains that the eighties was the decade to blame. You have put your finger on exactly the mindset that I've been objecting to, but I have never been able to articulate it so well. Thanks!