We admire infamous outlaws, such as Jesse James or the pirate Blackbeard, as anti-heroes. There weren't many.
Most of us have rebelled a little in our teenage years, against small laws such as "it's for your own good", and against "Say hello to your Auntie". "Whatsuuuup Auntie". "Now look at her and say hello properly". "OK. Hi Auntie".
There aren't many radically rebellious youths, rebelling against their own society's norms, but until recently it seems there were none at all and no society admired or encouraged it.
I wonder if this development is good for a society (would WW1 have been possible with modern day Western youth) and are there any historic precedents to judge our current trajectory by?
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The Romantic movement was a counter-cultural youth movement that emerged in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It rejected the rationalism and order of the Enlightenment, and instead focused on emotion, nature, and individualism. This was a counter-cultural movement because it challenged the dominant cultural norms of the time, which emphasized reason and order. Romantic artists and writers sought to express the inner experiences and emotions of the individual, and to celebrate the beauty of nature and the imagination.