By the way, Bill Ayers isn’t a boomer, he is the silent generation, as were just about every person of the 1960s who names are known.
If you want to see “silent generation” (born 1925 to 1945)leadership, then start running the birth dates of the famous counter culture figures, bands, musicians, activists, etc, of the 1960s and early 1970s, when boomers Sarah Palin and Obama, were little kids.
Oh come, Ansel.
So I missed on Bill Ayers by a few years (or rather his parents did).
You know precisely the group of recent and present-day radicals I am referring to (they are UBIQUITOUS, in the media, in Hollywood, in the academy, in Washington) who were born post-war and who, for that matter, have been instrumental in setting the stage for Barack Obama. Do you suppose David Axelrod was weaving baskets in 1960? Cornell West? Katrina Van Den Heuval?
If you want to define “hippie” narrowly enough to include only you and Euell Gibbons, that’s fine by me. I meant to cast no aspersions on any fetish of yours.
It seems obvious to me that the ratio of your brand of hippie vs. the stereotypical long-haired maggot-infested Haight Ashbury burn-out would be almost identical to the number of present-day farmers’ market entrepreneurs who supported Palin as opposed to those who thrall for Obama.