You are the stars

[Eric the Green]

(07-29-2016, 02:14 AM)Galen Wrote: I seem to remember quite a few copies of Das Kapital being passed around all those years ago. Come to think of it they spent a lot of time telling me how great the Soviet Union was but curiously they had never been there. History shows that they were full of shit about both Marx and the Soviet Union.

I have seen a lot of drugged out people in my time both Boomer and Xer. I can say with complete certainty that all it did was make them stupid.

I knew a lot more boomers than you did, because I was their age and I was close to where the most hippies and radicals of the sixties were. I can say with complete certainty that psychedelics opened up countless people, including GIs and Silents as well as Boomers, and even Xers too, to greater life and awareness, and it made them a whole lot smarter. I knew a few others who went crazy on psychedelics and had a hard time recovering. But I don't remember anyone who was made stupid at all. And I met only a few who were into Marxism (and one of them was a Silent). I know that some radicals were, but the main movements of the time were not Marxist but peace and ecology movements, and they were otherwise progressive and to a large degree anarchist. Later of course I got involved with the Greens. They are not Marxists either, for the most part. I never saw a single copy of Das Kapital.

Quote:I read many books actually but happily I read very fast so I have had plenty of time to experience reality. That is also why I don't like to mess with the brain chemistry since I have had to deal with some very nasty bits of reality like so many other Xers. Many of those bits took place while you were busy getting stoned and creating the wreckage the Xers and Millies get to deal with.

Many of you Xers give us nothing but excuses for your lack of awareness and your cynical attitudes. I don't buy it. Your generation suffered from broken families, but many of us core boomers had oppressive and lonely ones; not much better. You had more freedom from parental oppression, and you had economic opportunity because of your lower population compared to Boomers and Jonesers. The only wreckage was created by your ridiculous and callous economic philosophy, which has shut down opportunity for many young people in these last 36 years and counting, and shifted all economic advancement to the top 1% of the people. If you were really concerned about people having to deal with wreckage, you would see that, but you are completely blind to the problem, and absorbed instead with your ridiculous economic philosophy which you uphold because of your cynical attitudes.