Are we living in the 60s?

Actually, I think the premise I'm getting it at is quite the opposite of the Millenial episode your linked. In it, Mike talks about how Millenial's have an active role in destroying and forgetting the past, which is necessary to achieve their progress. The idea here was that the past isn't gone, but very much alive. Milennial's are a symptom, not a focus, of this repetition. Despite all the "progress" that has been made in various forms in the last half century, *society* remains the same, that is, humans (or at least American culture) hasn't changed.

Is that a request for some history??? (i may have a problem).

Well if we wanted to be really ambitious, I believe there's probably something related in the collapse of the Abbasid Caliphate in early 12th century Baghdad, and the taifa kingdoms in Spain in the 13th.

But that all comes with a gigantic caveat: We don't have access to what the overwhelming majority of the population was thinking until the late 18th century, at the very earliest. Even then, you're really looking to the 1830s for when literacy rates hit a point that we have a good idea for what ordinary people are struggling with.

We do have accounts of various peasant revolts, and educated people did talk about those (French Revolution, the Peasant's Revolt of 1381), but it's hard to strip away the various biases and see if people were reacting to the same fears as modern millenials are. If I had to hazard a guess, they didn't, because at least as far as I can tell, a lot of the fears of 'joining the workforce' etc. rely on a capitalist society in order to be relevant.

Or in far too many words: I would love to do a historically-minded discussion of millenials, but, depending on the exact angle, there would be some limits to how far back the history could go.