The Joy of Hate (2012)
“But I remember none of it because back then I was too busy pooping and peeing in places I shouldn’t. Not much has changed. But being born in that year made me a teen in the mid-seventies, where I witnessed the romanticization of the hilariously decadent decade that came before. I didn’t remember the sixties, but I didn’t have to—the entertainment industry and the media did it for me, creating a metastatic myth of the heroic protester, the Summer of Love dude who somehow became more majestic tha...n men of similar age fighting in places where many never came back alive. The 1960s began the love affair with the outspoken liberal, the raging professor, the “one who would speak truth to power.”
Were I naive enough, I would think that this noisy activity would be viewed as heroic, no matter the cause. If you were angry about the war—or abortion—it didn’t matter as long as you made your voice heard, loud and clear. It didn’t matter if that voice was shrill, clueless, self-indulgent.MoreLess
Were I naive enough, I would think that this noisy activity would be viewed as heroic, no matter the cause. If you were angry about the war—or abortion—it didn’t matter as long as you made your voice heard, loud and clear. It didn’t matter if that voice was shrill, clueless, self-indulgent.MoreLess
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