At The New Yorker Louis Menand riffs on misconceptions about baby boomers and the 1960s, foremost among them being that the boomers actually DID anything in the 1960s of cultural significance (consumption doesn't count)

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-misconception-about-baby-boomers-and-the-sixties

Menand has written a long riff on the misconception that the youth of the 1960s "changed everything".  He rolls out how few of them were actually leaders or significant political or judicial figures during the Civil Rights movement.  He points out that a good chunk of the baby boomer cohort was actually too young to even be at Woodstock when Woodstock happened.  As for the musical heroes of that era, they were born before the American baby boom happened.  Menand throws a bone to Stevie Wonder as a baby boomer who really DID transform popular music but he casts a very skeptical eye on the praise and blame accorded to the Baby Boomer generation in terms of what was actually going on during the 1960s in terms of cultural production.  The Baby Boomers were, in Menand's jaded take, famous consumers rather than producers of the cultural zeitgeist of that era.

That reminded me that my skepticism about the baby boomers has been that, well, as Menand has put it, they bought the music but weren't necessarily making it.  Even in the case of Stevie Wonder, whose music I regard as magnificent, his really amazing work didn't develop until ... well ... basically the Nixon era!

If a rote conservative claim is the youth of the 1960s ruined everything with free love, drugs and defiance against authority my complaint has been, despite thinking of myself as moderately conservative, more along the lines of Louis Menand's critique, that the 20-somethings kept bragging about buying the popular culture of their day as if that in itself constituted "changing things".