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Great post.
I'm more optimistic. By 2015 the hippy daily influence in the workplace, MSM, higher education should be finito excepting a handfull of exceptions, they're already on the steep downhill by 2010.
The age related ending of such a influential generation can be very very dramatic in results. My favorite example - the USSR folded near precisely 45 years after the end of WWII (1990), very closely associated with the passing into retirement of the Great Patriotic War generation.
The rise of PC nonsense in the US also corresponds to the passing of the Greatest Generation.
With any luck the thrashing about as their influence runs out will continue to alienate the youth (think Ward Churchil).
Predication : the backlash against PC (speech codes etc) in universities should rise 2010 against resistance from the last hippies, when they finally go 2015 the anti-PC backlash should become the norm, probably quite suddenly.
My call : 4 years and the clock is ticking. Hold the line by hook or crook for now, and watch, wait for the portents of doom for the age of aquarius. Enjoy. Bring popcorn.
Die, hippy scum, die.
Jan 7, 2007, 6:54:00 AM
Posted to So Long Hippies (Just Not Soon Enough)