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Alas, the mantra nowadays seems to be "worship authority."

The poles have switched. Top musicians previously mocked politicians, fueled college sit-ins, lamented "four dead in Ohio," and preached against "the man."

Nowadays, top musicians play at inaugurations, fuel students protesting conservative speech, cheer government overreach, and are willingly controlled by "the man."

Alas, the mantra nowadays seems to be “worship authority.”

On this subject there is a fascinating series of videos on Youtube from the channel, More Music Shows. The series is called “behind the music” and deals with the world that created the songs of a particular time period, its effect on the music and the music’s effect, if any, on it. The early episodes deal more with the events at the time than the music itself. It’s very interesting.

However, I was there and I know they do leave some things out and over-emphasize others, but still, very interesting. The years covered are:

1968
1970
1970 (the year I graduated from HS)
1975
1977
1981
1984
1987
1991
1999

The first episode is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip4o_MIvZXQ

It’s fun to juxtapose those first few episodes with what’s happening today. In one case, there was looting, and 3,000 looters were arrested.

Your post is spot on. It's amazing how the Left has flip-flopped from always questioning authority and raging against the "establishment" to being utterly compliant sheep and allowing themselves to be tools of the establishment.

Now they want to put anybody daring to question the establishment into cattle cars and send them off to "camps". Just like Nazi Germany did. They are even willing to turn in their neighbors, friends and family to the oppressive government as traitors in order to score brownie points.

A complete 180.

And it happened in my lifetime.