Just so. I liked the movie precisely because it revealed the dirty little secret of the Movement. Maybe that wasn't what the director intended, but it sure as hell was what the movie did.
In particular, I thought it was interesting to see the movie in the light of an earlier film, "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit." All that righteous cr*p from the hippie generation about the sins of capitalism and the conformity of men in gray flannel suits. Yet in the end, those were the DECENT businessmen, who cared for family and society. The transformed hippies who went into business cared nothing for family or society. Since business was corrupt, in their view, they would be corrupt with the best of them.
That's why we now have CEOs making a thousand times as much as the peons working for them. Because when a hippie goes sour, he really goes sour. The idea that business can be ethical simply never enters his drug-burned mind.
- Cartman