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This is an exceert from an article I read. The article is called Tangled Up In Me by Joseph Hart and I read it in Utne, it is about the boomer generation, and well this passage just really struck me.
Such misty-eyed sessions of "those-were-the-days" tend to dominate the landscape of aging boomer culture, as does a sort of innocent grandiosity. Al Gore more or less cliaming to have invented the Interenet is just one item on a long list of willful superimposistions: The Beatles as if there were no Elvis, free love as if there were no Emma Goldman, utopian communes as if there were no American Trancendetalists; student movements as if there were no Latin America; LSD as if there were no laudanum.
11:43 AM - 8/25/2008 -
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