The 'generation gap' has existed for all of our lifetimes. It is common to claim that the generation gap has always been with us, from cavemen on down.
             Our generation gap is far more than the wildness of youth. Our generation gap is a generational war, a war between ideas and thoughts. It is the friction between people who do not understand each other.
             As change in our society accelerates, the generation gap widen up. This change can be in the form of values, customs,morals, ethics, technological progress, political or anyother such form. Like when youngsters learned of cars and mechanics, where their parents had traveled by horseback or been forced along the water routes--or hadn't traveled at all. Trips across the vast areas become possible nearly on a whim, though this didn't become popular until another generation had passed and the idea could seem 'normal'. Normal to a new generation that grew up with cars.
             Similarly when we received television, and people 'played' with the electronic innards , but it wasn't until a generation later that these one-eyed monsters stole children from their parents.
             Besides this, due to fast paced advancement, there are quick improvizations in almost all diciplines that is why we can predict that what we are learning in college will be taught to school students. In another generation it will be part of kindergarden fare. Today's children are more knowledgeable than their parents. The kid fresh out of med school is more up-to-date on medical practices than the experienced doctor. Experience and the wisdom of age no longer go hand in hand with knowledge. Marshall McLuhan's idea seems really valid that "My children had lived several lifetimes compared to their grandparents when they began grade one."
             The new generatin is morelogical and doesnot accept the dominance of the older generation. It desires to pave its own way rather ...