Has there ever been a generation which hasn't claimed "This time, things will be different!"? If you'll look back on what was written caustically about (and in rebuttal by) the Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers, I'm not seeing much difference now.
There are going to be a few of us in each generation which set out to be entrepreneurs and will tenaciously stick by that world-view our entire lives. The readers of this board are a self-selecting group (and aren't necessarily representative of the latest set of graduates) but many will still end up employee grist for the cubicle mill after their first dozen major setbacks.
There have been some (like X) that were too small to cause large change due to much larger numbers of the previous generation still being in the work force.
Marijuana may not be legal yet (in most states) but a lot has changed.
On Whole Foods and the return to the cities, that's a reaction against mistakes made by prior generations. Processed food and suburbia are falling out of favor not because the Boomers fought against them in the '60s, but because all generations are recognizing them as harmful and moving away from them.
What happened with the Boomers and drugs in the '60s is a blip on the radar. That generation is now the greatest obstacle in repealing the War on Drugs, which draws its support from moralistic, reactionary Boomers. Xers, as a general rule, are too pragmatic to dump hundreds of billions of dollars into ineffectual and damaging moral pissing contents.
In fact, the naively utopian druggies of the 1960s fucked up a lot of opportunities for discovery. Humanity's knowledge of powerful and potentially very helpful (but also dangerous when misused) chemicals like LSD and psilocybin is decades behind where it should be, since the illegality of these substances also entailed a research ban. LSD/psilocybin research was considered completely respectable in the 1950s and '60s-- LSD's inventor was a respected chemist who used it experimentally but rarely, and lived to be 102. This was before a small set of clowns, driven by half-baked knowledge and clouded judgment, started publically recommending these drugs to everyone. That sort of idiocy, of course, hasn't gone away; these days, we have moronic 17-year-olds posting salvia videos on Youtube... although that is definitely not a drug to take likely.
There are going to be a few of us in each generation which set out to be entrepreneurs and will tenaciously stick by that world-view our entire lives. The readers of this board are a self-selecting group (and aren't necessarily representative of the latest set of graduates) but many will still end up employee grist for the cubicle mill after their first dozen major setbacks.