last of the great society

HIPPIES

This is the last gasp for the summer of love - their present positions in the media, government bureaucracy and academia are at a pinnacle and will only recede in the coming decades. This is their Tet offensive - apparitionaly winning, but they may end up on the wrong side of history. Back in the late sixties/ early seventies communism was still expanding, the west was beginning a decline, and the future was murky. Flower people set out to form a society without rules or even money, and the so called great society balloon was launched amid anti-war, anti-capitalist, anti-west delusions. US economic opulence in the 50's and early 60's allowed a generation of listlessness and ignorant protest. Of coarse the whole thing went up in smoke when reality set in (obviously a Nixon/Kissinger dirty trick). True historians never look at events of the past quarter century because they are still too biased, like uncured cement. It is very easy to write a book beating up on the current administrations faults. They are not unprecedented nor unique in the history of our nation nor humankind. Only time will tell if Bush is judged as a Wilson/Johnson or a Lincoln/Trueman, except to those with the superior vision, the present flower children's fantasy, which says he is the worst ever.