Yes, absolutely, a huge part of it revolved around what was called at the time in the media "the Generation Gap". Young people in the 60's and early 70's had a most extraordinary sense of themselves as a sort of nation apart, a positively tribal sense of separation from the older people, and the system was clearly run (as it always is) by the older people....so the young people felt at greatly at odds with the system. The draft and the Vietnam War added much fuel to that fire.

I lived through it, and I have never seen or heard of such a ferment among a youthful generation deeply at odds with their elders as occurred at that time. There was this incredible sense of shared identity and purpose among young people for about 10 years or more.

It had its good side and it had its bad side. On the good side, it stirred a great deal of creativity and idealism and helped to change society's attitudes toward race, religion, politics, war, gender issues, really almost every important issue you can think of. This led to a lot of positive change in people's philosophies.

On the bad side, young people became very arrogant and close-minded in many cases in their assumptions of moral superiority to older people, and they got sidetracked into deadends like drug use and promiscuity and general irresponsibility. (tune in, turn on, drop out)

It was pretty bizarre, and at the same time pretty intoxicating. The dreams we dreamed were spectacular. The mistakes we made were considerable. The victories we won were considerable too, but it felt like we had failed at the time. We changed the world, but not nearly as much as we had hoped to.

Yes, the divisions between old and young tremendously accentuated the impact of young singers like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles and a host of others at the time.

I haven't seen anything even vaguely like it since. Things are much more fragmented now.

The $ySStem was badly shaken in the mid to late 60's by the youth movement. They've been pretty much in control since then, because they learned how to control the media...from the top down. Reporters don't go to war like they did in the 60's. They are "embedded" now. That means...they are controlled.