For the past few days, I have been watching and listening to the big dustup
about the young people occupying Wall Street.

Some have even referred to them as "hippies".

I'm 62, and a survivor of the sixties, and I resent that comparison big
time. I was a hippy for a time. It was fun. Luckily, I survived, and
outgrew it.

We were a rag tag group. We were on LSD, pot, quaaludes, Ripple, whatever
we could get. Some were actually stone cold sober. In interviews in the
archives from the 60's, when one of the hippy protesters was asked what they
were protesting, they could COHERENTLY state their point. Get out of Viet
Nam. End government corruption. Whatever, but they could COHERENTLY state
a cogent point of view.

This new crowd is I think quite a bit more educated than those of forty
years ago. But listening to them is a chore. ****, someone in the sixties
that had taken two Quaaludes or a hit of window pane could hold a better
conversation than these kids. All I hear is left wing liberal Marxist bent
statements. Take from the rich and give it to the poor with no contribution
of work or effort from the poor. The poor people who have televisions,
computers, cars, air conditioning, and many things that people who live in
truly poor countries would consider the mark of a VERY rich person. Things
like indoor plumbing, hot water, a waterproof roof, insulation, and
electricity.

This new gang is plain scary. If they ever get the helm, we're ****ed. I
think they see the reality that they will have to go out after college, get
a real job, and move out of Mom's basement. Socialism with a government
taking care of their every need sounds better than really having to work.
They fail to grasp the fact that their needs will be interpreted to be a
minimal subsistence existence with no frills.

I believe I am going to become a hedonist. Cause this bus is heading
towards a cliff fast, and I don't think we have long left. And if the young
don't get their heads out of their asses, and this current gang in power
isn't taken down, we will either have socialism or armed revolution. I
prefer the latter personally.

Steve