On Nov 12, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Nicholas Roberts wrote:
> lets not forget Reagan really got his start by smashing hippies in Berkeley
These are very different times. The hippie thing came at the end of a long boom. Wages were rising for decades. Now, everyone's kind of miserable. There's not much of a generation gap, and alienation is a mass phenomenon. The eras just aren't comparable.