07-30-2020, 11:06 PM
Reaction to the counterculture created Ronald Reagan, much of whose appeal was the attitude "I'll show those young whipper-snappers a few things or two!"
The big problem with the Boom Awakening was not that people in the counterculture turned reactionary; it is instead that people who had no idea of any purpose other than self-indulgence found the reactionary culture forming as the Nixon-Reagan "silent majority" easy to con. They were feathering their nests while others were reaching for the stars or acting upon conscience.
The big problem with the Boom Awakening was not that people in the counterculture turned reactionary; it is instead that people who had no idea of any purpose other than self-indulgence found the reactionary culture forming as the Nixon-Reagan "silent majority" easy to con. They were feathering their nests while others were reaching for the stars or acting upon conscience.
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.