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>>For all you youngsters who do not personally remember the 60s, on the issue of Radical Chic (and for pretty much anything he's ever written) I highly recommend Tom Wolfe's "Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers"
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>Never mind the youngsters. Robin Williams got it right:
If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there.>
I remember the 60s pretty clearly up until about 64 - then somewhat drunkenly to about 68 - then fell down the rabbit hole. Remember 90 to the present resonably well (except where I put my car keys half hour ago and the name of somebody I'm talking to on the phone ... )
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
