Would a Depression Readjust our Values?

I read somewhere that the economy tanks about every 80 years, about the time that all the old people who remember the last one die. My mom talks about the 30's and how they lived with no money. They mined their own coal (crappy but supplied some heat), canned their own meat and vegetables, home brewed, entertained themselves by barn dances with live band music from the neighborhood, lived within a few miles of their relatives and visited with their neighbors and exchanged labor with both. She talks of being so poor that they carried lunches made of lard sandwiches to school but that everyone else was also poor. I really think the music of the times reflects the attitudes of the era and the kids listened to crooning love songs.

Now we are in the era of kids who look like they are getting chemo or modeling themselves after Nazi skinheads, arms look like they are from a tribe of masochistic headhunters, and music that is so misanthropic and angry that I feel violated just listening to it. The favorite dog breed seems to be the pit bull. Easy money with no work seems to be the goal. I read the reviews of the documentary "Cocaine Cowboys" and all the young people love it because of all the scenes of massive drugs and stacks and stacks of money and the never ending bragging. (Don't bother renting it as it is pretty boring - my review.)

There is a slim chance that people will band together to survive, but I think the surly young people I meet would kill you for a can of corn and do a little Mexican hunting for entertainment.