History repeats itself?

Like many others before me, the more I learn about history, the more it seems history repeats itself. In my American studies class we are talking about the era of the 1950s, characterized by the culture of suburbia: the TV dinners, TV sets, the housewife, multiple cars, cookie cutter houses, etc. Underneath this facade, however, brews a counter-culture against the sameness that encapsulated the culture, which eventually turns into the hippie phase of the 60s. The 50s, surprisingly, revealed surprising data about sexual habits by the Kinsey reports, such as: 90% of all white middle class individuals interviewed (of 180000) had been sexually active before marriage. It is this that helped bring about the "pill" in the 60s. The counter-culture in the 50s had an apocalyptic feel. Many felt that this conformity brought about by technological advances such as the TV was a huge crisis in America. It spoke of the overworked and bored housewife. The hippie-dom of the 60s then, should have come as no surprise. As I listened in class, I realized that a lot the same "apocalyptic, crisis-in-America, technology-is-taking-over, gender-norms-are-suffocating" conversations are happening now, as a counter-culture to the new middle class family: the soccer mom, family dinners, white picket fence, etc. Just as the 50s and 60s was a struggle for the civil rights of not only minority populations such as African Americans, but also the rights of women, now we have a struggle for civil rights for the LGBT community. It seems to me that the pendulum is again swinging the other way in an attempt to celebrate the expression of individuality with the "hipster" movement, and bringing down the confines of social norms about family, sexuality, and gender, just as it did in the 50s and 60s.