On Nov 12, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Nov 12, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Nicholas Roberts wrote:
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>> lets not forget Reagan really got his start by smashing hippies in
>> Berkeley
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> 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.
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