What age ranges are you talking about? Assuming people go to college or university at 17-18, they can complete their teen years breaking free of childhood while learning adult skills. I did 8 years of that stuff back in ancient times, and my day to day existence and academic survival was up to me. Yeah, my folks paid the bills for the first half, then TA'ing people paid the second. The whole schmere was a pay to play deal but the good parts really outweighed the bad. Socially rich environment, it was.
Looking back, there is/was only one great difference - social networks. I played with computers from 13 onwards. Required going to a computer centre somewhere or finding a desktop minicomputer. In a car or on foot, but it was "elsewhere". The big advantage of that era is that it wasn't a solo activity. Weird society, yeah, but one had to be civil (enough) to be able to get help and access. Micro's ended that need.
Not having to be on line all the time gave me some slack until I got a handle on scheduling. In that I was (quite) lucky.
And I figure "joining the military" isn't freeing oneselves from supervision, rather the reverse. Is there still social agencies that let you go elsewhere and help out or have they all been branded NGO's and eliminated?
Looking back, there is/was only one great difference - social networks. I played with computers from 13 onwards. Required going to a computer centre somewhere or finding a desktop minicomputer. In a car or on foot, but it was "elsewhere". The big advantage of that era is that it wasn't a solo activity. Weird society, yeah, but one had to be civil (enough) to be able to get help and access. Micro's ended that need.
Not having to be on line all the time gave me some slack until I got a handle on scheduling. In that I was (quite) lucky.
And I figure "joining the military" isn't freeing oneselves from supervision, rather the reverse. Is there still social agencies that let you go elsewhere and help out or have they all been branded NGO's and eliminated?