[MississippiMasterpiece]

Love him or hate him...agree or disagree...Hitchens is one of the best essayists of our generation...and I'm still in awe of his drinking abilities.

[umgud]

I've left the Age of Aquarius? I've entered the Metallic Age.

Silver in my hair
Gold in my mouth
and lead in my a$$

[rellimpank]

--graying and greasy ponytail trailing off the balding pate---laugh of the day---when I see one of these I know who he voted for--and that he probably works for a school system--

[NeoCaveman]

I hate hippies.

[Skooz]

bump for later

[wildcatf4f3]

bump

[BunnySlippers]

I am a BIG fan of Hitchens and surely the 60s [70s] need to be skewered ... but this is not one of his better essays. Looking for better and a more caustic Hitchens.

[annyokie]

I love Hitchens. He's one of the few good Libs.

[Snardius]

the anti-globalization movement has started to reject modernity altogether,

Proof that no matter how hard you try, you'll never educate all of the people. The "anti-globalism movement" is the bastard child of the hippies of the sixties.

Some join because they gain power and acceptance among others like them who refuse to respect authority. And others join so they can have sex with girls who would never give them the time of day without the foreplay of rebellion.

[bubman]

Liberals hate Hitchens more than conservatives do. What Liberals fear most is to be exposed for what they are. He tells it like it it and libs despise him for it. Liberalism needs to masquerade itself as something else in order to advance their pseudo marxist dream of an equal society where bourgeois aspirations (capitalism) and moral certitude (faith/god/religion) would be eliminated in the name of "equality" (for us no doubt but not for them!)

Give em hell Hitchens

[bubman]

Read Robert H. Bork's

"Slouching Towards Gomorrah-Liberalism and American Decline."

Amazing book.

[dennisw]

best essayists of our generation...and I'm still in awe of his drinking abilities......

While sucking down Rothman's. He was amusing on Laura Ingram a few days ago.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

To the extent that the decade had a moral seriousness that could be transmitted forward, this inhered in the partly spontaneous opposition to an unjust war in Indochina

Perhaps the greatest service the 2004 election performed IMO was that truth emerged in the general public three decades after the Vietnam War. Yet, this writer assigns to the "love generation's" lies about the War the status as the only "moral seriousness" of that era. Those lies cost lives -- tens of thousands of lives.

Had it not been for the "partly spontaneous" and mostly led by communists opposition -- aided and abetted by North Vietnam's "most valuable guerrilla," the American press -- the war would have ended years earlier and with the victory U.S. troops and allies earned. Go figure. What's this writer's problem?

the Apollo mission [showed] us our fragile, blue planetary home from outer space, thus promoting (first) "The Whole Earth Catalog" and (second) a mentality that despised the science and innovation necessary for the taking of that photograph in the first place.

There's something telling about that.. oh! Yes! It's, liberalism is a mental illness.

[RAY]

I was already "grown" when the sixties came, thank God!

On the other hand, what I would trade to be young again.

[Fiddlstix]

Ping

[John Lenin]

The ''3,000 mikes'' there are micrograms of LSD (''Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'' in the Sergeant Pepper ecstatic version) and represent 12 times the ''normal'' dose. I still know people who undertook such voyages of the imagination, or had them inflicted upon themselves, and who never quite came back.

Some of them have jobs at Err America.

[SamAdams76]

(The latter, the last time I saw him in the early 90's, was planning to have himself cryogenically frozen but was ''not to be reanimated during a Republican administration.'')

Guess he'll be cryogenically frozen for a long, long time! Might as well just pull the plug now.

[snopercod]

I've got one of these books. I bought it in 1970. What a classic documentary of the era.

[Texas_Jarhead]

color me unimpressed

[SweetCaroline]

Where Aquarius Went?

not far....their all up in the Santa Cruz Mountains!

[FreedomCalls]

I think we here can take a sip of the medicine he is offering. One line stands out:

To this day, there are people who are convinced that they took part in these struggles just by being young and alive at the time, and who have the beads and the Dylan albums to prove it.

Do we want to be the subject of a similar essay written about the conservative movement some 40 years from now? Heed what he said. You will not change the world by just being around or by posting comments on message boards. You need to get politically active. Join a local Free Republic chapter. Work with your local Republican Party/Libertarian Party. Write letters to your congressman. And so forth.