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@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, 3:22 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 6, p. 91

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6. FIFTIES GENERATION, MARIJUANA, AND CAFFEINE Page 91 Drug Effects — Marijuana The effects of marijuana are more diverse than those of alcohol and nicotine. Yet there are a number of things that can be said about its effects in general. The effects of marijuana are more subtle than the two drugs mentioned thus far. In fact, there are some people who cannot feel the effects of marijuana; and sometimes it takes several times of using it before one begins to realize its effects. Yet it is not an ineffectual or weak drug by any means. Initially The reasons why some people cannot feel marijuana’s effects appear to be related to their having very defended personality types, or, one might say they have a great deal of repression. The reason this would affect their ability to feel the drug’s effects are easy to understand when we consider the fact that repression of feelings of trauma would include repression of the ability to feel things in general. A repressed person is a more neurotic, more defended person; and more defended persons are basically defending against painful feelings.
@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 20, 2026, 5:05 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 6, p 90

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Not coincidentally, the drugs of use affecting the Fifties Generation subculture were quite different from those of the WWII Generation. It is my argument that this change in focus of drug use was not random but was part of the psychological maturation or evolution of the American populace. A more evolved generation, which was a result of the change in parenting practices, occurring over this time, sought better recreational drugs — ones that were not as much about denial and defensiveness but about openness and self- realization. I explain this evolution of child-caring practices and the resulting evolution of the American personality in others of my works. See especially my Apocalypse NO and Wounded Deer and Centaurs. In any case, with the Beats in 1950s America, marijuana, for the first time, began being influential in the culture, and the consciousness, America would create. Let us take a look at its effects and then at the events associated with this generation. PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 90
@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 19, 2026, 5:25 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 6, p 90

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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 90 …sides of that. The Fifties Generation — termed Silent Generation by Strauss and Howe (1991) — is reserved for those born 1925 through 1942. Presley was born in 1935, smack in the middle. His music and his style were individualistic in the extreme. He would set off a rock and roll revolution, of sorts. Yet he was conforming as well; he allowed himself to be drafted into the Army. This is in contrast to Muhammad Ali who refused to be inducted. It is not coincidence Muhammad Ali was born 1942 and therefore, while a Fifties Generation member technically, he was on the Fifties Gen/ Sixties Gen cusp. Revolutionary numbers for the Fifties Generation were not large, relatively, yet in being the initiators of many of the evolutionary ideas that would come into fruition in the Sixties, these Fifties Generation members were extremely important. Meanwhile, the conforming side of the Fifties Generation would continue their alliance with outmoded and dangerous ideas as brought to them from their culture and their WWII Generation elders. The one side of the Fifties Generation would listen to the beatnik poetry and socially conscious folk songs of that era of the Fifties. The other side would be conforming “Mad men” (Madison Avenue men), corporate cogs.
@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 18, 2026, 6:12 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 6, p. 89

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[Chapter 6 text begins:] The Fifties Generation was bordered by the World War II Generation and the Sixties Generation, and it partook of qualities of both of those generations. Some conformed to and followed the WWII Generation mentality and some others, a lesser number, were radically individualistic free-thinkers and social experimenters; they would be forerunners to the generation succeeding them, the Sixties Generation. Enter the Beats This generation is exemplified by “the Beats” (beatniks); activists such as Jerry Rubin, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, and Abbie Hoffman; political figures, such as Bernie Sanders, Jerry Brown, and Joe Biden; and literary figures such as Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and Lucien Carr. These free-thinking sorts were cast alongside the pervasive conforming mindset of the Fifties, which was embraced by the great majority of that generation. Yet this dual nature of the Fifties Generation was an influential template in creating the stark division that we see in America as the Culture War, today. Interestingly, the supreme American standout from that generation — Elvis Presley — would come down nicely on both… 6. FIFTIES GENERATION, MARIJUANA, AND CAFFEINE Page 89
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 8:05 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 6, p. 89

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6. FIFTIES GENERATION, MARIJUANA, AND CAFFEINE Page 89 “The Sixties Generation — also called the Vietnam Generation and the Baby-Boomers — would make a complete break with the dominant culture. They would create a counterculture. They would redefine everything; they would seek to start everything over again, in view of the corruption and conformity they discovered all around them in the form of the establishment.”
@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