~Paules
2008-04-13 12:11:40
A sizeable percentage of boomers are fully reformed ex-hippies. We cut our hair, gave up the drugs, accepted jobs, and began to pay taxes. Eventually hard work and sobriety paid off; we joined America’s middle class. When I look back on a decade of debauchery, I’m embarrassed for my generation. And yet a significant number of us today have become upstanding members of the community. A few like myself have even joined the ranks of conservatism. The rest, the unreformed, drug-addled narcissists are a pathetic remnant of the past. Such people are destined to be the kind of cranky old codgers that are best ignored. They will die in a stupor no doubt, but who will even notice?
