What I mean is, you need people who can afford to practice and project a conception of life which involves more than running-on-the-spot in the competitive workplace and fitful slumber in the lonely dorm suburb - and they're usually young, I find. By 30 or so, most are hanging on to a job or securing an off-spring's well-being - imperatives that quickly lonelify and 'deculturate' us, I reckon.
The proportion (and salience) of young folk I see at demos might be rather better than what I discern on LBO (which is itself just a little better than what I see in lefty organisations), but it is woeful. Mebbe it's all simple demographics-as-manifest-in-the-culture: The baby-boomer dominates wherever s/he goes - just as s/he has since 1960.
That was a (potentially) good thing in the sixties, but it's a real party-pooper in the noughties. Mebbe it'll all come right once most of us are safely out of the way - a goodly number consigned to those public sector old-people's homes we've collectively been impoverishing of late.
Er, sorry. Rob.
>Carl Remick wrote:
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>>Whatever happened to the warmth and mellowness of the counterculture?
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>Altamont.
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>Doug