02-20-2022, 01:07 AM
(01-09-2022, 12:57 PM)Victorian Jim Dandy Wrote: I like the idea of this thread because it will dispel the myth that Boomers were hippies when, in fact, they're staunch Christian conservative Reaganites. Silent Generation were the hippies and even then they were the minority of people.
Boomers were far more diverse in their origins. The first to attain fame (or infamy) were the pop performers, some of them very troubled people.There were the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison who had bad trips on the way to the morgue. Such people were often associated (rightly or otherwise) with "peace, love, and dope" . On the other side, does anyone think that Newt Gingrich was ever a "peace, love, and dope" type? He was always a Machiavellian pig who cleaved closely at all times to convention. The late Rush Libel (Rush Limbaugh)?
Many sold out early, with the newly-popular MBA schools fitting their philistine materialism serving their dreams of treating people badly for personal power, indulgence, and greed..
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.