08-06-2020, 03:52 PM
(08-06-2020, 10:24 AM)David Horn Wrote:(08-05-2020, 07:33 PM)Einzige Wrote: What the counterculture mostly created were hedonists who eventually found themselves drawn to the economic libertinism of Reagan, to spite the hated GIs and to do unto themselves.
You're assuming that the core members of the counter-culture fit that mold. I suspect that the Reaganites absorbed the hangers-on -- poseurs who like to be where the action is. That the core was small and the hanger-on community large makes this argument no less valid.
A plausible explanation.
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.