Teens: Variations in youthful rebellion between the 1920's and modern (2010's) teenagers

                  Levels of rebellion, similar to the amount of information humans have access to, is compounded with each successive generation that leaves its own indent on history. The teenagers of the 1920's, still largely in a highly conservative and religious society where prohibition is in effect, had an extremely low bar for what was considered "wild and crazy." Teens of the time period also had a significantly lesser exposure to "corrupting influences," both the result of lower levels of communication capabilities and a noticeably smaller range of historical and cultural influences from which to derive ideas on exactly HOW to rebel.
                   The 1920's were a period where the most significant changes to the cultural zeitgeist was the prohibition amendment, which led to the illegality of alcohol, and the romanticism of "pop culture icons", a new idea entirely. With the shift from idolizing religious figures, parents, and politicians to athletes, musicians, and rebels without causes came a "fight against the status quo" mentality totally original to the decade which led to the systematic destruction of traditional values in a small niche counterculture. This mentality led to the consumption of alcohol and tobacco openly by teens, especially shocking when a young woman was seen drinking or smoking, and "crazy, hedonistic" dancing to "raunchy and boisterous" music.
                   In comparison, modern teenagers have the ability to learn from and one-up their predecessors. Drinking and smoking have become common place, even among children as young as 14 and 15. Social networking brought to life the dramatization of fighting between teens, over girls, booze, or just for fun. Music has also taken a turn for the worst, with one of the most popular genres of music, rap, eliminating entirely the subtlety and having the singers blatantly say their intentions to consume alcohol, illegal narcotics, and participate in coital relations with females in possession of neither shame nor self respect.We also have history on our side, so to speak. We, from a young age, hear of Woodstock, hippies, rockers, punks, greasers, hussies, gangsters, and criminals. We learn of all sorts of corrupting influences for a decade or so before we enter high school, both historical and fictional.
                  If we, on a four quadrant graph, allow "y" to be "objective levels of immorality and rebellious tendencies of the average teenager" and "x" to be "time that has gone by past 1900," the trend would of the youth counter cultures would be something like y = x^2, where x ≥ 0.  And I could not possibly have made a more nerdy analogy, could I?