What goes around comes around
There is no better witness than one who has seen it twice.
In keeping with the theme of this blog, I attach an article that sums up the stranglehold that the Boomers have on everything now.
As someone who was there as a young observer in the hippie movement, I can attest to its ultimate success now in controlling all the institutions that it criticized way back then.. In the process they have rendered them totally and terrifyingly banal.
The old friends who were ‘counter culture’ back in the sixties are now passionately defensive about all the powers that be - just as the article outlines.
The basis of the hippie movement was Utopian thinking, and I recall it well. The Age of Aquarius had supposedly dawned in our midst and for all its supposed Universal Love, you would be damned if you disagreed with its naive, post modern collectivist thinking.
The most important part of this Utopian thinking, and what it shares with Marxist ideology, is the concept that disagreement is simply not acceptable. The collective interest is decided by the elite and to be obeyed at all cost to the individual.
THEY know what is best for YOU, and don’t you dare to disagree. I have experienced it first hand in the last few years, with old friends from that time cancelling me just for having the audacity to want to have a conversation about things.
Question the courts, the media, the Government, the educational or arts institutions? Time to be sent to the gulag.
We see the results of this everywhere now, just as the article discusses. In Kanada, the fear mongering totalitarian Trudeau has brainwashed Kanadians to be fearfully obsessed with safety, the Boomer priority.
Whether by the mask or by the Government, Kanada has embraced the Boomer fear of risk or change. The people have given up on personal responsibility and look to the Government to solve everything, even as they willingly surrender their own, and more importantly, their children’s freedom and dignity in the process.
Victor Hanson says it better than I can - read on.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/29/anarchy-american-style/