Serious analysis of current history is never an easy task. It is doubly difficult in this period of accelerated change in which today\u27s crises often become merely footnotes in tomorrow\u27s history. However, this paper attempts rather brazenly to judge the place in history of the current generational revolt which has, within the past few years, become a major, and often distorted, feature in the media and a preoccupation of the public generally
