I tend to agree. I’m familiar with the efforts of The Frankfurt School, and “Intellectuals” like Sarte, but I responded the way I did because I come from the age group (1951) that was attracted to the “hippy culture.” I know firsthand, the ravages of the drugs and the nihilism they fostered, and I’m sick to bucktoothed death of hearing 1960’s retreads applauding themselves.
Part of the reason why the hippies exploded as they did was unintentional as well. So many of their parents had endured the Great Depression and WW2 and remembering their hardships and vowing their children wouldn’t have to share in that, they gave their kids all the best they could, in many instances, spoiling them rotten. Ironically, it wasn’t the children of the working classes that made up the bulk of the “movement”, but those of the middle and upper classes. So many of those same people today may dress “better”, but still share the same misguided and devastating cultural and social values. The Clintons, for example (though it was clearly Hillary that more embraced the liberation philosophy after she was indoctrinated in college, Bill was just a charming lower-class slob).
Wow!
A collection of human detrius washed up on the shore, No focus, no goal, no nothin'