The silent generation
- Tom Mazanec
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The silent generation
Laid the groundwork for the Psychedelic Awakening https://www.commentarymagazine.com/arti ... eneration/
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain
― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain
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Re: The silent generation
Tom Mazanec wrote:Laid the groundwork for the Psychedelic Awakening https://www.commentarymagazine.com/arti ... eneration/
Other prominent members that come to mind: Charles Manson (1934) and Jane Fonda (1937).I am not talking here about what is commonly referred to as the boomer generation, born just after the war in an optimistic blast of baby making. We were pre-boomers. I, only a foot soldier in this cohort army, was born in November 1943, but look at the icons: John Lennon, born in 1940; Tom Hayden, in 1939; Abbie Hoffman, in 1936; Gloria Steinem, in 1934; Allen Ginsberg, 1926; and Timothy Leary—apostle of “turn on, tune in, drop out” and virtual patron saint of hippie culture—born in, wait for it, 1920. The game was already well established, the rules already made, before the boomers arrived on the scene. They were just our younger brothers and sisters, trying to play catch-up. They lived in imitation of us, expanding on what we did, playing variations on a theme and commercializing “the Revolution” until it was virtually bred in the bone, the very essence of American and consequently modern European culture. All others were outliers.
While the periphery breaks down rather slowly at first, the capital cities of the hegemon should collapse suddenly and violently.
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