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No, but had your your generational class create its own unique movement is still n not large enough to have the lasting cultural impact that the 1960's "counter culture" has had. Merely by referring to a youthful fling with "hippiedom" you give the game away, that "hippiedom" that you talk about was created by the first wave boomers. That is just the point. It is a pervasive force to this day; subsequent generations have "tweak" that 60's youth movement and modified it to their own tastes but have changes its forms or thrusts but little, and only in cosmetic ways where there is a modification.

Only now we are starting to see cultural and political movement away form it in the current bunch of teenagers and some in their early twenties. The sixties has a major cultural, political and social impact that is with us to this day and will be with us for quite a while. On could liken it to the "Great Awakening" movement in the early 19th century in the US (though obviously its aims were rather different,) or the 1840's political movements in central Europe. It is not a trivial issue merely because the media and the fashion industry glommed on to it - in fact it is rendered all the more dangerous. Go to almost any mainstream film theater you shall see that in most of the offerings all the themes, rhetorics and techniques of that time permeate them.

The 1960's represent a watershed in our history, or at the very least in the post ww2 history of the West. It is good to remember just what the formative underpinnings of people like Blair, Schoeder, Fisher, et al. are. They all hark back to this time. It is also wise to remember how successful Asiatic communists were successful in manipulating public opinion and thus governments in that period too. They certainly have not forgotten. Neither, apparently, have the Jihadi.

Certainly the media has not. when have had in a compressed form almost all of the sixties themes replayed before us in the last 3 years, with an intestity and a coordination unseen at that time. Should this assualt cause GWB the election, none of us will be to sanguine about the "legacy" of those years.