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@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 1:02 AM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema

Ch 8, p. 117

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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 117 …amphetamine, uppers, “whites,” and so on. They repress Pain extraordinarily well. Building castles in the sky They are euphoriants and cause one to have the feeling that one’s mental capacities are expanded. One feels that one can envision projects and outcomes precisely. So, one expends oneself in organizing and preparing for great achievements, which rarely are embarked upon. Free from fear, reckless, overconfident, risk-taking Since these drugs repress Pain, creating an amped state of mind more than normally able to fend off unwanted emotional material, they repress the normally present residue of fear, with its attendant caution in the face of activities outside of one’s comfort zone requiring forethought and anticipation. One does not feel constrained by normal fears or apprehensions, so one throws oneself into new activities with reckless abandon. One feels overly confident in one’s abilities and engages in all kinds of risk-taking — financially, sexually, interpersonally, legally. Later, we would find out, politically. These activities have one embarking on dubious schemes which rarely pan out.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 9:41 AM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, p. 116

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I deal with this issue of differing designations for the generations depending on whether it is arbitrarily set by the Census Bureau or it represents a true generation in being folks who were shaped by the same events in much detail later in this work. For now, I wish to simply note that in this chapter we will, following Strauss and Howe, be talking about those born from the year 1961 through the year 1980. Drugs and Generations That said, let us look now at that ricocheting of cultural mores and minds between the poles of liberal/conservative, open-minded/closed- minded, idealism/conformity, democratic/authoritarian, and expressive/ repressive. Again, I contend that the changes in the drug usage between those used by Sixties youth and those used by Gen X youth, because of their effects, are not coincidental to those pendulum swings in national direction. I’ll explain… Drug Effects — Cocaine, Speed Drugs in the amphetamine class are stimulants. This includes cocaine, methamphetamine, “meth,” “crystal,” crack cocaine, “crack,” “speed,”… PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 116
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 10:23 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, p. 116

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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 116 …or Boomer Generation — as those born between 1943 and 1960. This contrasts with the Census Bureau’s designation of the Boomers as being those born 1945 to 1965. And I repeat, this is because that group — those born between 1943 and 1960 — can be seen to have been shaped by the same national and cultural events growing up; whereas those born 1945 to 1965 do not have a common set of formational experiences. Generational theorists other than Strauss and Howe also see that period — born 1943 to 1965 — comprising different generational sets. Indeed, a special designation of Generation Jones has been suggested for those born between 1955 and 1965, because that period does have its unique set of cultural and historical markers, which lent themselves to creating the kind of personality that would develop. In either case — Gen X and Boomer — we see that the Census Bureau’s designations were arbitrary and were useless for any analytical purposes where such and such group could be said to share common characteristics. They didn’t. Generational theorists have had to alter the Census Bureau’s designation to make any sense of generational trends in our recent history. I deal with this issue of differing designations for the generations depending on whether it is arbitrarily set by the Census Bureau or it represents a true generation in being folks who were shaped by the same events in much detail later in this work.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 8:16 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, p. 115

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Gen X, according to the Census Bureau, comprises those born 1965 to 1980. However, Strauss and Howe, in their book, Generations, points out that those born in those years do not constitute a true generation. A generation, for analytical or sociological purposes, is a group that shares the same formative experiences in their youth and childhood. If the group does not have much in common, how can it even be discussed as a “thing”? Compared to other “things”? With this in mind, Strauss and Howe — who represent the “gold standard” in generational theory — designate the 13th Generation, roughly comparable to the Census Bureau’s Gen X, as comprising those born between 1961 and 1980. The difference is the Census Bureau has Gen X beginning in 1965. For the very same reasons, Strauss and Howe designate the Vietnam Generation — roughly comparable to the Census Bureau’s Baby-Boomer… 8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 115
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 9:53 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, p. 115

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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 115 “...the drug use of Xers strayed back to the use of alcohol & cigarettes. These are the drugs used by their Fallow Generation parents....” “Alongside this ‘traditional’ drug use, Generation Xers are noted for their pessimism, defeatism, and fascination with death....” [Chapter 8 text begins:] First off, this swinging back and forth of attitudes is mirrored also in the drug usage of these generations: We go from repressive drugs such as alcohol and tobacco with the WWII Generation; to mind-expanding substances like marijuana and LSD for Sixties youth; back to suppressive drugs again with Gen X. For with this generation born 1961 to 1980, white was king, cocaine snowed down on all levels of society.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 8:36 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, pp. 114-115

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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Pages 114-115 “...beginning in the Eighties, it became fashionable to sneer at and blame — often scapegoating — the more unfortunate ones of society: The poor, helpless, mentally ill, children, the powerless. It was as if Reagan emptied the mental hospitals onto the streets so as to have a target to feed to his rabid Right followers. Honestly, it worked. Americans were encouraged by the media and propaganda systems to find some time for that kind of hatred, for the poor and homeless, alongside their ongoing and outright snickering and smugness as directed at the ‘hippie-dippie’ values and ‘kumbaya’ visions of the generation older than them.”
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 8:14 AM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, p. 114

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“[Yuppies] primarily comprised youth in their twenties and early thirties who followed behind the Vietnam-era Generation. Their mantram was to get rich, get powerful, erect and maintain ‘family islands’ which they saw as competitive with the rest of society — quite unlike the communitarianism of the Sixties Generation — and to retire early ... social and environmental problems be damned.” “...beginning in the Eighties, it became fashionable to sneer at and blame — often scapegoating — the more unfortunate ones of society: The poor, helpless, mentally ill,… PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 114
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 8:51 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, p. 114

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“Republicans will then blame the mess they left behind on the Democrats who regain power, each time, after the economy has been trashed. For the electorate will put Democrats in office after every Republican financial calamity — Hoover’s Great Depression, cleaned up by Roosevelt; Reagan’s late Eighties, early Nineties recession, fixed by Bill Clinton; W. Bush’s Great Recession of 2008, corrected by Barrack Obama. Currently Joe Biden is tending successfully to the mess left us by Donald Trump. American’s financial house in order once again, the American electorate will be ripe to have their racism and hate stoked once again, directed at scapegoats, creating another Republican ascension. So the GOP can pick up on their thieving, again.” PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 114
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 8:33 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, p. 114

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“...this shift of wealth upward at Reagan’s time would only be the first of many of such Republican larcenies to come, as we saw with the financial policies of Republicans George W. Bush and Donald Trump. The fact that such trickle- down and such an upward shift of wealth leads to recessions, inevitably, would become an inconvenient truth that would be suppressed in the media’s narrative.” PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 114
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 9:30 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, p. 114

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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 114 “There are two aspects of trickle-down economics and the recession that followed Reagan’s implementation of it that are especially relevant here for a discussion of drugs and generational cultures. Those factors are the manic quality of the times — the go, go, go, buy, buy, buy mentality of the investing — and the other is the obvious proof it gave to marginal returns theory: In other words, the money, given to the rich, was valued little and was mindlessly blown on trivialities; it was said that the Eighties was a huge party for the rich.”
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 6:00 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* by Michael Adzema

Ch 8, p 113

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“...the materialism the Fifties Generation members were nurtured in after World War II — as a reaction to the fear and uncertainties their parents had because of the Depression, the war, and The Bomb — would be replicated in their children.” 8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 113
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 5:17 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema. Ch 8, p. 113

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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 113 “The Fifties Generation have kept themselves as invisible as possible but running things from behind the screen, since they took over conservatism and greed from the WWII Generation and upped the ante. Witness the Koch Brothers — Charles and David Koch, born 1935 and 1940 respectively — both of whom are Fifties Gen members. Indeed, Fifties Generation members values manifest today in the difference between traditional Republicans — those called RINOs (Republicans in name only) by MAGAts — and the MAGAts or Trumpers themselves. These RINOs are folks like the Koch Brothers, Rupert Murdoch, Mitch McConnell, Ron Paul, and John McCain. They have been the ones behind the curtain — old-school Republicans, who have more of a World-War II Gen mindset. “Whereas nearly all the folks fighting them and wanting to be even more reactionary and fascistic are the MAGAts/Trumpers, the reckless ‘wacky wabbits’ of the Gen X/Yuppie/13th Generation. These include Trumpian MAGAts like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan, and Josh Hawley. These latter have more of a Yuppie/Gen X mindset in being irrational, reactionary, and sarcastically obstructionist.”
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 3:44 AM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, p. 113

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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 113 “The Fifties Generation have kept themselves as invisible as possible but running things from behind the screen, since they took over conservatism and greed from the WWII Generation and upped the ante. Witness the Koch Brothers — Charles and David Koch, born 1935 and 1940 respectively — both of whom are Fifties Gen members. Indeed, Fifties Generation members values manifest today in the difference between traditional Republicans — those called RINOs (Republicans in name only) by MAGAts — and the MAGAts or Trumpers themselves. These RINOs are folks like the Koch Brothers, Rupert Murdoch, Mitch McConnell, Ron Paul, and John McCain. They have been the ones behind the curtain — old-school Republicans, who have more of a World-War II Gen mindset. “Whereas nearly all the folks fighting them and wanting to be even more reactionary and fascistic are the MAGAts/Trumpers, the reckless ‘wacky wabbits’ of the Gen X/Yuppie/13th Generation. These include Trumpian MAGAts like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan, and Josh Hawley. These latter have more of a Yuppie/Gen X mindset in being irrational, reactionary, and sarcastically obstructionist.”
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 2:23 AM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 8, pp. 112-113

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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Pages 112-113 “The hypocrisy of the charge of the Sixties Generation being Yuppies becomes even more blatant when considering their values. Sixties values included such selfless acts as risking, sometimes incurring, violence and personal harm, jail time, and a lower standard of living for the sake of their idealistic beliefs in peace, environmental restoration and preservation, and selfless communitarian living, among others. None of that has any overlap with Yuppie careerism, consumerism, materialism, or their individualistic greedy selfishness.” “Post–high-school education was being turned into career- factories dedicated to producing compliant businesspersons, engineers, physicians, and scientists — folks who were not being educated to think for themselves, rather, how to achieve and make money in a culture with which the World-War-Two Generation was comfortable.”
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 9, 2026, 6:13 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* by Michael Adzema.

Ch 8, pp. 112-113

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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Pages 112-113 “The hypocrisy of the charge of the Sixties Generation being Yuppies becomes even more blatant when considering their values. Sixties values included such selfless acts as risking, sometimes incurring, violence and personal harm, jail time, and a lower standard of living for the sake of their idealistic beliefs in peace, environmental restoration and preservation, and selfless communitarian living, among others. None of that has any overlap with Yuppie careerism, consumerism, materialism, or their individualistic greedy selfishness.” “Post–high-school education was being turned into career- factories dedicated to producing compliant businesspersons, engineers, physicians, and scientists — folks who were not being educated to think for themselves, rather, how to achieve and make money in a culture with which the World-War-Two Generation was comfortable.”
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 9, 2026, 3:48 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 8, p. 112

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“...the Yuppies were the creation of the WWII Generation in their attempt to reverse the course of society that their own daughters and sons, as ‘Sixties Youth,’ had put it on.” “...the Vietnam-era or Sixties Generation began being denigrated in the press with the accusation, ‘The ‘Me’ Generation,’ and Sixties values were also denigrated — the scapegoating of the Sixties Generation continuing — despite the fact that it was a different age group in society, the younger Yuppies, who were actually the ones triggering the attack.” “The hypocrisy of the charge of the Sixties Generation being Yuppies becomes even more blatant when considering their values. Sixties values included such selfless acts as risking, sometimes incurring, violence and personal harm,… PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 112