Yep. I was 15 when that song was topping the charts. Even at that age, I could see how society would crumble if the hippies/leftism became “tenured”. It has come to pass.
I liked it too... it seemed so significant. Ah it was cool to pound it out on a piano....
Oh, if I had known.
The tenure did not happen in a vacuum. It is demons that drive this, needing people’s assent in order to have a claim on power in their lives.