CalBears96 said:
morekaos said:
Actually with age comes wisdom?.the more taxes you pay the more conservative you become?.youth breeds idealism..age hammers out reality. It?s just evolution. Don?t worry Calbear96 I am Uclabruin86 and you?re not that far behind me 
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Like I said, more conservative and selfish. The ones with wisdom would be someone like Warren Buffett who stays Democrat.
Sure, I don't like paying more taxes, but Republicans work the ultra rich, not someone like me. Trump taking away SALT didn't help Californians, did it? And I HATE all the conservative ideals, especially the current Republican party, which is based on hate and ignorance. I would NEVER become a Republican.
Evolution is very hard to fight...see you in the future... ;D ;D >
?All the Hippies Are Executives Now, and Everybody?s Sold Out?
In Garry Trudeau?s animated short film, A Doonesbury Special, the stoner ex-hippie Zonker announces to his group of middle-class roommates that ?the commune is pass?,? at which his roomie Mark worries out loud, ?Where will I go? Who will I be? What will I eat?!? Zonker responds saying, ?unless you?re from Vermont, the commune is finito,? and he continues to suggest that the group ?disband, intermarry, and move into condominiums.? After Zonker?s speech, Mike, the contemplative character in the house, sadly comments to Mark that Zonker was right about ?the passage of an era,? and Mike questions: ?When was the last time we fought for anything??[1]
By the time A Doonesbury Special debuted in 1977, the decline of the Sixties dream was already well-worn territory. A year prior, Tom Wolfe penned his influential essay, ?The ?Me? Decade and the Third Great Awakening,? in which he argued that the communitarian ethos of the 1960s had shifted into a prosperity-driven, individualistic quest towards self-realization. He notes how the Boomer generation in the 1970s began asking themselves ?what will the Real Me be like??[2] In his essay, ?Decade of ?Image, Skin Flicks and Porn,?? Norman Mailer said that the 1970s were a time when ?people put emphasis on the skin, on the surface, rather than on the root of things. It was the decade in which image became preeminent because nothing deeper was going on.?[3] Boomers in the late 1970s seemed to have altogether abandoned their hippie ideals in exchange for corporate jobs, traditional marriages, and houses in the suburbs. It was a time that Bruce Schulman described as ?an era of narcissism, selfishness, personal rather than political awareness.?[4]
Like Trudeau?s characters, many Boomers were coming to terms with the loss of their activist identities. What had begun as a countercultural fight against the system had turned into complacent acceptance of it. By the end of the 1970s and the early 1980s, Boomers were selling out?turning ?from yippies to yuppies??and the what did it all mean?
https://tropicsofmeta.com/2017/12/21/all-the-hippies-are-executives-now-and-everybodys-sold-out-late-boomer-and-early-gen-x-cinema-in-the-1970s-and-1980s/
