Nov. 28th, 2012 at 8:43 PM
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nebris"I have become very sensitive to how scared people really are in this country. The rest of the world too I suspect, but The Republic is my primary playground at this point. And I lay most of that shit upon my own generation, The Boomers.
We really blew all our lil minds back in the Sixties, from Camelot to the Mason Family, and we've never gotten over it. The constructs of “There are no limits” and “Anything is possible” were very freeing for a certain cadre, but freaked the shit out of many others, like the fucking Young Republicans and similar Fascist running dogs.
And as that 'certain cadre' morphed into Yuppies, etc, those constructs began to freak them out too because now they had 'something to lose', hence Helicopter Parenting, Political Correctness, The Nanny State and so on, all essentially Marxist/Leninist methodologies, but applied to Bourgeois/Consumerist outcomes.
So that is what has largely shaped Our Modern World, the petty paranoia of ex-Hippies. Now me, while I am certainly a Child of The Sixties, I was a Freak, not a fucking Hippie. And I still subscribe to “There are no limits” and “Anything is possible”. And yes, they still scare the shit out of most people because most people believe Change=Loss.
I suppose I should also note I am a very firm believer in "If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem."
We really blew all our lil minds back in the Sixties, from Camelot to the Mason Family, and we've never gotten over it. The constructs of “There are no limits” and “Anything is possible” were very freeing for a certain cadre, but freaked the shit out of many others, like the fucking Young Republicans and similar Fascist running dogs.
And as that 'certain cadre' morphed into Yuppies, etc, those constructs began to freak them out too because now they had 'something to lose', hence Helicopter Parenting, Political Correctness, The Nanny State and so on, all essentially Marxist/Leninist methodologies, but applied to Bourgeois/Consumerist outcomes.
So that is what has largely shaped Our Modern World, the petty paranoia of ex-Hippies. Now me, while I am certainly a Child of The Sixties, I was a Freak, not a fucking Hippie. And I still subscribe to “There are no limits” and “Anything is possible”. And yes, they still scare the shit out of most people because most people believe Change=Loss.
I suppose I should also note I am a very firm believer in "If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem."