Heretofore, the smartest pronouncement I'd heard about the Wretched Seventies came from a customer of mine, who I don't think was even in grade school at the time. He said, "A heck of a lot of good would come from  deporting  everybody who attended Woodstock, or who said they did."

That was a BINGO.

I was just over at Annika's (with a whole new look) and she has this deal [Trudeau Bitchslap], also from someone not even born at the time, but who gets it. Here's snippage ...

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"The anti-war left is the same way. Young activists, trained in the crucible of our universities by former hippies who think they "stopped the war, man," want nothing more than to do it again. Never mind that Nixon stopped the war, not the activists. (As Michael Medved is fond of pointing out, the giant anti-war demonstrations all but evaporated after Nixon ended the draft. Even as the war continued.)

"Listen, i went to Berkeley. If there's one drumbeat that you hear all through undergrad there, it is this: Make a difference. Sounds great, but the thrust of that imperative is limited and obvious once you spend a few semesters there. "Making a difference" is narrowly defined not as "having a family," "raising good children," or "contributing to society in a constructive way." It's defined as a blind opposition to anything traditional. "Tear it all down, man."

"Trouble is, that sentiment is in itself traditional. Yes, traditionally Marxist." -

There's nothing else that can ever be added. Like, cosmic stuff man.