Respectfully disagree, sir.
The Age of Aquarius has been here a while, and is now withering away along with the old hippies.
By 1980, the "old order," the "establishment," against which the hippies "rebelled," had been overturned. I can think of nothing on the hippie agenda that was NOT either socially-acceptable or legal, or both, by 1980.
We've been in the Age of Aquarius for nearly thirty years, and as the mortality rate of the hippies reaches that of veterans of the second world war (circa 1,000 per day), the Age is going with them.
I always found it amusing, these people resentful of the "establishment" (as it had been circa 1950-1980), railed against it as if it still existed. The hippies will die off never understanding that they themselves had become the "establishment".....and that the rest of us, beginning in 1994, began overthrowing that decadent culture.
The job's not done yet--the elections of last November showed that--but the job's nearly done. The elections of November 2006 were the Gotterdammerung, the "twilight of the gods," of the hippies. From here on out for them, it's all downhill.
Frank,
You made my day with that comment.
Thanks.
And why is it the Germans have all the cool words?