Huxley…y’re dead wrong. I’m older than Prelutsky, and I remember those days too. They’re just as he said…most especially this “What made their bullshit so totally odious was the fact that their elders, for the most part, bought into it. In addition, because they were so lacking in humor, their solemnity was taken for sincerity.”
We lost a child to the 60s. She survived, but hasn’t lived since. The overwhelming remembrance I have of the times, is that as I fought back and tried to save my daughter we, my wife and I, were alone. The psychiatrists, the academics, the media, Timothy Leary and Lester Grinspoon..from Haaavaad, y’know…the world was upside down and my child was immolated on the wreckage. I’m not in a forgiving mood, all these years later. I thought at the time, “these kids are not going to be able to run the world…we’ll just have to stay and work longer, till the generation behind them shows up.” I had no imagination that they would instead take control of the world, and wreck it, as they have with control of the academy, the media, the law and government, the schools.
And the worst is yet to come, in the generational warfare implied in Steve’s comment, in the perfect storm of unfunded promises they’ve made to themselves, and when the results of 40 indolent, lost years arrive to finally straighten things around. It’s sad, America. I’m an old man now, but the world they’ve left to their children and my grandchildren won’t be a pretty sight.
