As far as Boomers are concerned, rules were made to be broken.
At every encounter with tradition and convention, Boomers have challenged and remade the established ways of doing things. This is their generational history—ever more rule-breaking as the next domain of rebelliousness is added to those before it. Boomers have always sought to reinvent their situations to accommodate new approaches and fresh ways of doing things.
Boomers have felt more confidence in themselves than in traditional authorities or established ways of doing things. They have been unwilling to follow along merely for the sake of abiding by the rules. The old rules of work, life, and play, whatever they were, have never been viewed by Boomers ...
