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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 7:32 PM

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

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Not So “Happy Days”: The War-Born Generation — Fifties, Eisenhower Generation The media tends to focus on the big trends and to ignore or miss the lesser ones. The way our recent history was portrayed, you would think that just because there was a huge number of babies born in the decade and a half after World-War-Two’s end — the much discussed Baby- Boomer Generation — that there were no babies born during the War ... almost as if every man in America was overseas fighting or that, when home on leave or whatever, they simply would not or could not conceive! Marinated in the Womb of War Fears However, of course these ridiculous notions are not true, so there is a pre–Baby-boomer Generation who happened to be born during or in the decade leading up to WWII, that is to say, between about 1925 and 1942. And the Yuppies were predominantly the sons and daughters of this — let us call it — Fifties Generation. Marinated in the womb with Great Depression and war fears and born around the time of the war, the Yuppies’ parents then had their formative adolescence and young adulthood during the Fifties. PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 126
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 6:20 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 7, p. 101

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7. VIETNAM/BOOMER GENERATION — MARIJUANA AND PSYCHEDELICS Page 101 …to deeper, more transformative levels of the experience with little or no direction. These deeper levels include, for example, what Stanislav Grof terms the third level of psychedelic experience the perinatal, meaning “surrounding birth.” It is equivalent to that which Masters and Houston termed the symbolic level — the difference being due to the fact that perinatal material is initially experienced in highly symbolic ways, and it is only in later sessions with the drug that the birth material becomes more apparent. Since Masters and Houston’s research method was to study the effects of one session of the drug on over two hundred subjects and Grof’s method included its use with some hundreds or thousands of individuals over a number of sessions, it is understandable why Masters and Houston did not recognize the birth material laced through the encounters with their “symbolic” level. On the other hand, Grof subjects experiencing multiple sessions would find — later, if not sooner — the birth-related aspects of their experiences too obvious to be able to ignore.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 8:36 PM

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

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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 126 It is interesting to notice that the same pattern of the younger generation being more adamant and radical than their parents, but in the same direction, plays out here like it did with the Sixties Generation and their WWII Gen parents. As mentioned, previously Sixties radicals has liberal parents. Similarly, 13th Generation/ Gen X radical reactionaries had conservative ordinary Republican parents ... and attempted to do them one better. This dynamic of a Fifties Gen/ Gen X alliance has been represented by the Gekko character in the movie Wall Street, played by the Fifties Generation character, Michael Douglas, whose protege, correctly enough, was played the by the yuppie-Generation Xer, Charlie Sheen.... Accurately cast, in that he was born 1965.2 Not So “Happy Days”: The War-Born Generation — Fifties, Eisenhower Generation
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 5:39 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 7, p. 100

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So it was that while Grof and other researchers like Masters and Houston were studying LSD’s effects in controlled settings and with sessions guided by researchers who had experience with accessing deeper levels of the experience — as, for example, Grof himself — there was some degree of access of the deeper levels of the experience even by people using it in uncontrolled situations and with no guidance. It is for this reason that there were some calamities that occurred under the influence of the drug. These rare instances were seized upon by counterculture opponents to spread falsities about the drug’s safety. This, in turn, led to LSD being outlawed. These portrayals of LSD are clearly seen to be outlandish and paranoid, when you consider that the effect of LSD on DNA, which is one of the charges against it, are about as powerful on affecting DNA as an ordinary cup of tea would be. This was pointed out by Stanislav Grof in his book LSD Psychotherapy (1978). So we see how much lying and propaganda were brought to bear by the WWII Gen around this cultural phenomenon, LSD. Indeed, as it turns out, for every LSD experience gone wrong, there were hundreds or thousands other LSD experiences that were powerfully transformative. This, simply, is due to the fact that, even without a guide, the psyche’s normal tendency is toward growth and resolution. Hence, many people were able to flow with and be taken… PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 100
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 8:50 PM

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

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Hence all these MAGAts — save Boebert and Gaetz,— are members of Gen X. Gen X/ the 13th Generation and are those born 1961 to 1981. Of the ones mentioned, they include Ted Cruz, born 1970; Jim Jordan, born 1964; Sarah Palin, born 1964; Marjorie Taylor Greene, born 1974; and Josh Hawley, born 1979. Other major reactionaries past and present are numbered among the ranks of 13th Generation/ Gen X, including Rand Paul, born 1963; Paul Ryan, born 1970; Ron DeSantis, born 1978; and Chris Christie, born 1962. Ron Paul, born 1935 and thus a member of the Fifties Generation, is a parent of Rand Paul, the Gen X Yuppie type, and this pairing demonstrates both the parentage of Gen X, as being the Fifties Gen, as well as the way that generation, Gen X, conformed to their Fifties Gen parents, not rebelling. Mostly, this pairing depicts the alliance we see predominantly on the Right — that between Fifties Gen and Gen Xers. The Fifties Generation, Strauss and Howe’s Silent Generation, are those born 1925 to 1942. Keep in mind this alliance of Gen X and the Fifties Generation and that the Fifties Gen are predominantly the parents of and are those who inculcated values into the 13th Generation/ Gen-X, along with Gen X’s subcategory of Yuppies 8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 125
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 6:53 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 7, p. 100

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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 100 Drug Effects — LSD In Stanislav Grof’s many works (for example, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, and so on), he concurs with Masters and Houston’s earlier work (1967) that the initial phases of psychedelic experience are predominantly enhanced sensory awareness. It is this type of experience that is usually related to the use of LSD as when the experience is expressed in colorful and swirling images, which has been called psychedelic art. And for many people who used LSD, the experience remained on this level of surface, enhanced sensory awareness. Thus, they could use it for “recreational” purposes. Yet more often with LSD than with pot, people accessed deeper levels of the mind, so that the recollective-analytic — Grof calls it the biographical or psychodynamic level — is reached, as well as levels of consciousness beyond it. These levels were experienced even when the drug was used “recreationally,” because of the relative potency of the drug as compared with marijuana.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 8:36 PM

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

Ch 8, p. 125

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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 125 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. Other major players in this drama are also Gen X/ 13th Gen, including Liz Cheney (born 1966) and Adam Kinzinger (born 1978). Lauren Boerbet, who is a Millennial, born 1986, and Matt Gaetz also a Millennial, barely, born 1982, are two, only, Millennials among the major Republican players. Hence all these MAGAts — save Boebert and Gaetz,— are members of Gen X. Gen X/ the 13th Generation and are those born 1961 to 1981.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 6:14 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 7, p. 99

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[Chapter 7 text begins:] The preeminent researcher on the effects of LSD on consciousness is, without question, Stanislav Grof. However, Robert E. L. Masters and Jean Houston’s research with LSD led to their seminal work, The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience. This book came out in 1967 and had a significant impact on the drug culture of the time. Most influential on the counterculture at the time, however, was Timothy Leary’s work, The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It was a work that sought to be a guide for journeyers in mind-expanding experiences, which was based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, as its title informs. That work came out in 1966 and was coauthored by two other notables in consciousness research, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzner. Richard Alpert is he who later became Ram Dass. As Ram Dass, Alpert authored another influential work in the Sixties consciousness culture, Be Here Now (1971). 7. VIETNAM/BOOMER GENERATION — MARIJUANA AND PSYCHEDELICS Page 99
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 9:01 PM

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

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Yuppies — Children of Fifties Generation Parents The values of the Yuppies are understandable, furthermore, in that they were the sons and daughters of a generation between the World-War- Two and Baby-Boomer Generations, who are rarely talked about. It is often said that the World War Two Generation — termed the G.I. Generation by Strauss and Howe and designating those born 1901 to 1924 — was followed by Boomers/Vietnam Gen, born 1943 to 1960, and that Generation X, the next generation, were the children of Boomers. Nothing could be further from the truth. The generation that followed the WWII Generation and the actual parents of Gen Xers were born 1925 to 1942 and came to adulthood during the somnolent Fifties, having most of their babies between 1961 and 1981. We might call this overlooked generation the Fifties Generation, or the Eisenhower-McCarthy Generation, or the Elvis Generation, or the Happy Days Generation ... a more cumbersome but more accurate term for them would be the War-Born Generation. They have been called the Silent Generation and the Beat Generation, and this does say something about them. 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,… PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 124
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 6:49 PM

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“Gen X correspondingly would not be influenced to drugs of mind expansion but to ones of this-worldly practicality, especially ones that aided their WWII-Gen inculcated values of greed, acquisition, and power. To that, the 13th Generation’s more privileged upbringing would have them add indifference to the plights of others and reckless defiance of social niceties. These values would later be highlighted in the MAGA movement, whose greatest numbers are those of the 13th Generation/Gen X.” 7. VIETNAM/BOOMER GENERATION — MARIJUANA AND PSYCHEDELICS Page 99
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 12:17 AM

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

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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 124 …taken up in abundance as well during the 1980s, when the youngest of that cohort would be nine to nineteen, also. Being thus for the most part in secondary schools and universities from 1972 through 1981, Gen X would be the generation most affected by those changes in society that accompanied the Big Lie involving the scapegoating of the Sixties Generation. For alongside the media’s promotion of a bogus conservative backlash we saw that, at that time, 1971 on, universities were cutting back funding from courses in liberal arts, philosophy, psychology, literature, politics and government, and the like. 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. Yuppies — Children of Fifties Generation Parents The values of the Yuppies are understandable, furthermore, in that they were the sons and daughters of a generation between the World-War- Two and Baby-Boomer Generations, who are rarely talked about.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 6:27 PM

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“Gen Xers would conveniently deem their abject submission to monetary and traditional values as some kind of grand rebellion against what they had been taught were ludicrous values of peaceniks, tree-huggers, dirty hippies, and ‘Berkeley’ radicals. For their generation had been taught, by the establishment, in typical Culture War fashion, that it was the political correctness of the generation prior to them that was the actual danger, the actual ‘established’ order, the actual establishment.” 7. VIETNAM/BOOMER GENERATION — MARIJUANA AND PSYCHEDELICS Page 99
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 10:58 PM

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

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Later these same elderly generational types would tell us that an election in 2020 was stolen, and they would dare to say that some imaginary Antifa were who stormed the Capitol during the insurrection of January 6th, 2021. Daunting, these lies are, as they are indiscriminately piled, one upon the other down through the decades. Despite the success in our society’s collective consciousness of the fantastical lie of Yuppies being former hippies — once it had been planted in the popular culture by the WWII Generation sitting comfortably in front of American society’s steering wheel — the truth is that these Yuppies were predominantly the generation that shadowed the Sixties generation, arising as youth in the aftermath of the Sixties cultural revolution. Yuppies — Products of the WWII Generation’s Todo List Yuppie values become understandable, then, in that many of these Gen Xers were in secondary schools and universities during the Seventies when the “conservative backlash” Big Lie was being promulgated. They would be those born 1961 on, the oldest of whom would be eleven to nineteen, during the Seventies, after 1972. This propaganda would be… 8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 123
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 6:55 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema. Ch 7, pp. 98, 99

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7. VIETNAM/BOOMER GENERATION — MARIJUANA AND PSYCHEDELICS Page 99 “Rather than the Superman/Mighty-Mouse influences on the childhoods of the previous Boomer generation — which had Sixties youth thinking they could and should change the world for high ideals of peace, love, and utopian betterment — Gen X would ape being rascally Bugs-Bunny– like figures: Not giving a damn, laughing at the ‘kumbaya,’ spitting on the environment, and ridiculing the airy-fairy. Because of the propaganda put upon them to turn them away from Sixties values, Gen X would end up despising the actual revolutionaries of the cohort of Sixties youth preceding them. They would pride themselves on tossing a monkey wrench into any utopian works, generally being a nuisance or obstructionist to any attempts at a better, or simply survivable, world.”
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*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema

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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 123 So 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. Opposing Worlds 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. But then truth was not their forte, the WWII and Fifties Generations. Later these same elderly generational types would tell us that an election in 2020 was stolen, and they would dare to say that some imaginary Antifa were who stormed the Capitol during the insurrection of January 6th, 2021. Daunting, these lies are, as they are indiscriminately piled, one upon the other down through the decades.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 7:29 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 7, p. 98

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7. VIETNAM/BOOMER GENERATION — MARIJUANA AND PSYCHEDELICS Page 98 “Generation X would swallow whatever untruths they had been fed. For they had been led, by the WWII-Gen media, to scapegoat the Sixties Generation for any problems they saw around them. This use of fake news and misrepresentation beginning in the 1970s and 1980s to deflect attention away from the actual filthy-rich perpetrators is important. This tactic of the wealthy elite targeting a scapegoat to create a Culture War, which would keep their larceny in the shadows, is indeed the premise of this book. “I need to make clear just how long has been going on this ploy of the wealthy using Culture War to hide their secretive and ongoing Class War. It makes it easier to see why it is so pervasive today, as we observe in the media’s use of Lefties as target practice for the irritations of grumbly MAGAts.”
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 8:29 PM

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

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Yet aware of the criticism that their very own values, taken to the Yuppie extremes, was generating in the independent press, as well as the negative publicity there about the cocaine use of the Yuppies, the World-War-Two Generation saw an opportunity not only to defeat but also to “get back” at their opponents, the Sixties Generation, by ridiculing them. The Sixties Generation had of course incurred the wrath of the WWII Generation by opposing and confronting them on the Vietnam War in sometimes harsh and hostile ways. As for the Yuppies who came on the scene after the Sixties Generation, in the predominant World-War-Two Generation fashion of scapegoating — which is the accompaniment of denial and ignoring the fact Yuppies expressed the values the WWII Gen had inculcated in them — the WWII Gen targeted their younger Yuppie clones from the outset. Especially the older generation directed their ire at the cocaine use of the time. The Yuppies, with their cocaine use, were portrayed in the WWII- Generation-paid-for media as former Sixties hippies who had simply grown older but — consistent with their alleged “narcissism” — were still selfish, only now, materially so. Thus the appellation, the “Me” Generation. 8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 122
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 4:55 PM

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7. VIETNAM/BOOMER GENERATION — MARIJUANA AND PSYCHEDELICS Page 98 “Gen X were raised and educated to be a corrective to Sixties youth and their values. They would not be influenced to be critical thinkers, to be generalists — free thinking and open-minded, which would make them liberal thinkers, politically. Rather, they were taught that open- heartedness and free thinking were silly and impractical in a ‘real world’ of greed, gamesmanship, status climbing, and struggle. They would not be introduced to heroic or idealistic notions of possibilities for world renewal or evolution but would be shunted onto the traditional paths of job/career, family, competition, wealth acquisition, and consumerism.”
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*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 122 Scapegoating an Entire Generation Coinciding with and supporting the strategy just described, and because the World-War-Two Generation during the Eighties were still in their triumphant phase — a psychohistorical term meaning they were at the stage of their life in late adulthood in which they had pretty much gained control of the reins of society — they furthered their cause by managing to plant a fantasy in the collective consciousness of American culture concerning the origins of Yuppies which persists to this day. Designer generation The WWII Generation was in obvious denial ... again, it being their predominant defensive posture ... of the fact that they had helped to “create” the Yuppies. They blocked out of their minds the obvious similarities between their own values and those of the Yuppies, as exemplified by the similarities between the World-War-Two-era Reagan- Bush political agenda and that of the Yuppies — who indeed helped elect Reagan and Bush. 8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 121
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*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 7, pp. 97, 98

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7. VIETNAM/BOOMER GENERATION — MARIJUANA AND PSYCHEDELICS Pages 97,98 "Once the pot experience opens to the second level of awareness — the recollective-analytic, which is deeper and more real than the initial enhanced sensory awareness — there is no going back. " "Regardless the cost, the one thing the Sixties Generation did not want to do was to end up like their parents; thus, the disdain for the use of alcohol. " "By the time of Altamont -- another huge musical event held in California after Woodstock -- the change was apparent. AIcohol was now being used, with the other drugs, in abundance; there was no disdain for its use; and violence and death at the event coincided with this change." PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS
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