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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 6:27 PM

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

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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

Ch 8, p. 123

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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, 12:46 PM

These people* ... MAGA, IRGC, Stalinists ... *will kill you* for THEIR ideas. They cannot EVER be listened to or trusted.

Let alone followed.

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 6:25 AM

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

Ch 8, p. 123

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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 6, 2026, 7:33 PM

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

Ch 8, p. 122

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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
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 5:28 PM

*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
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 12:09 AM

*These people* ... MAGA, IRGC, Stalinists ... *will kill you* for THEIR ideas. They cannot EVER be listened to or trusted.

Let alone followed.

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 4:39 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 7, p. 97

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“...the Sixties Generation ... predominant drugs of choice were ‘pot’ (marijuana) and LSD. Alongside this sort of drug use were attitudes of activism, free love, love as the ultimate value and/or as equivalent to God, pacifism in regards to the war, the valuing of openness, authenticity, ‘real’ communication, and passion and/or feelingness, including sensory awareness or heightened perception of the physical world.”
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 2:06 AM

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

Ch 8, p 121

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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 121 …win. So it was unsurprising, to some, when two years later public outcry at Nixon’s criminality in government led to his being forced to resign. Public opinion had changed drastically after the Watergate hearings, so the recently reelected Nixon was left without support. Yet eventually their “Big Lie” tactics, as exhibited in their promotion of a “conservative backlash,” won out so that people began to believe and then to create what they had been repeatedly told. Since the opposite or liberal view, as part of the strategy of creating a conservative backlash, had been censored in the media, people began to think that is what was going on. At that point even Hollywood unconsciously colluded with the Big Lie of a conservative backlash in putting out movies and television shows along those lines.1 We will discuss later on how the show Family Ties was an especially blatant example of their intention to misinform the populace about the actual direction of the country. Thus, 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. And the propaganda against the Sixties Generation and its values, repeated endlessly over the decades, led to a media narrative that conservative ideas were winning and that, indeed, progressivism and idealism were silly impulses of a narcissistic generation. Whereas the opposite was what was actually true, such a narrative remains to this day, propped up by moneyed interests because it is convenient for their ends if the populace believes that.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 6:07 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 7, p. 97

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7. VIETNAM/BOOMER GENERATION — MARIJUANA AND PSYCHEDELICS Page 97 “The Sixties subculture was one of experimentation in all areas, including drugs, which grew out of beliefs — following in the footsteps of the Beat Generation — that normal life/people were characterized by phoniness, alienation, conformism, robotism, and lack of feelingness ... and hypocrisy. Plastic became the pejorative the Vietnam- era Generation would use to describe the phony people they saw around them, as revealed, often, by the mind- expanding drugs.”
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 7:34 PM

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

Ch 8, p. 120

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And yes, at that time, 1972, Nixon did defeat liberal George McGovern, which coincides with a conservative backlash; yet this only occurred after the well-known, the hugely popular Robert F. Kennedy, who had been surging toward the Democratic nomination, had been assassinated earlier in the year. Confounded with the fact that McGovern was a last-minute stand-in was McGovern’s debacle of casting Thomas Eagleton as his running mate. Eagleton was found to have been treated during his life for “mental illness,” depression. Which was a pretty common thing, even then, and should not really have been an issue. Yet McGovern would be first of many Democratic politicians to shoot himself in the foot — in trying to come across as “nonpartisan” — by overly conforming to traditional prejudices and backing away from liberal principles. So he would drop his vice-presidential pick and, thinking to regain that Kennedy gleam, replace him with a supremely colorless, though credentialed, figure out of the Kennedy clan — Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., known popularly as Sargent Shriver. Only with all that confusion in the months leading up to the 1972 election did Nixon
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 5:09 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 7, p. 97

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7. VIETNAM/BOOMER GENERATION — MARIJUANA AND PSYCHEDELICS Page 97 “...it is only when one goes deeper into the psyche and ‘feels’ the Pain of that estrangement, or in psychedelic terms goes deeper into the actual reliving of the traumas that caused the creation of those alienating scripts, that one can go beyond the horrifying reality of cognitive estrangement.” “...in doing that processing, one arrives at a reality in which one’s ‘heart’ is opened, and one can catch a glimpse of a reality beyond the normal one — one in which we are all spiritually connected, in Love.”
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 5:58 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 7, pp. 96, 97

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“...those of us who lived through that period and either participated in LSD use or heard the stories of psychedelic experiencers can attest that transformative spiritual experiences were quite common, even when the drug was used just for the ‘fun’ sensory part; and people also described experiences of curling up in fetal position and reliving their births, long before anyone even heard the term perinatal. As concerns the spiritual level, it was not uncommon to hear of people who met with someone who would be comparable to a Jesus, or who went to a place they could only describe as ‘heaven,’ and this is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the varieties of spiritual experiences that were had.” PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 96, 97
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 6:58 PM

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

Ch 8, p. 119

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As expressed in Wall Street, they are driven solely by a value that “Greed is good!” This was later expressed on television as “Greed is good; money is everything.” This slogan is completely the opposite of the previous generation — the Sixties Generation — whose attitudes were expressed in lyrics like “I don’t care too much for money; money can’t buy me love” and “Love is all you need”; who bought and lived by books with titles such as How to Live on Nothing, The Greening of America, and Back to Eden; and whose most famous slogan was “Tune in, Turn on, Drop out.” Or, as it was sometimes said, “Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.” I’m not sure anyone in the generation knew which was the “proper” way to say it. Both apply, anyway. “Me Generation” Another term used for the Yuppie Generation was the “Me” Generation. Thus it was that from the height of Vietnam-Era youth’s influence on society and culture in the late Sixties, early Seventies to the 8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 119
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 4:53 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 7, p. 96

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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 96 Chapter 7 Vietnam/Boomer Generation — Marijuana and Psychedelics “Wow, Man!” “Just Do It” “Go with the Flow” [Quotes/highlights:] “...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.”
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 7:53 PM

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

Ch 8, p. 119

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8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 119 …members were antiwar activists, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. Reagan, Yuppy-Kay-Yo-Kay-Yay The less idealistic, more materialistic ones, the Yuppies, came in at the same time as Ronald Reagan into the White House and, indeed, exemplified much of what Reagan stood for. They were seen as greedy, over-achieving, materialistic, narcissistic, and societally and environmentally insensitive careerists. On the positive side, Yuppies had a keen appreciation for the finer things in life.... It’s okay to laugh here, that was meant to be snark. “Love is all you need” turned into “Money is good!” Yuppies were portrayed in film. One in particular that sought to delineate the attitudes of this character type was the movie, Wall Street, in which Charlie Sheen plays the role of the Yuppie, mentored by the Fifties Generation character, Gekko, played by Michael Douglas. Together they give a portrayal of complete self-centeredness and insensitivity to the ways their Machiavellian strategies harm others or the environment.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 6:14 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema. Ch 6, p. 95

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Yet such artistic renderings had a powerful impact on the culture in that they were contrary, were opposite of, the dominant conformism of the times, as exhibited in the WWII Generation as well as in their establishment-oriented Fifties Generation cohorts. These literary and artistic works set the stage for the revolutionary thinking and acting of the next generation to come on the scene, the Sixties Generation. 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. And they would continue the trend away from the Pain- repressing drugs of alcohol and tobacco and toward the ones that opened one to more aspects of reality, not less. The Sixties Generation would experiment further with mind-expanding drugs, including marijuana, mescalin, and magic mushrooms. And of course, they were influenced by this powerful new psychedelic — accidentally created and discovered in a lab — LSD. 6. FIFTIES GENERATION, MARIJUANA, AND CAFFEINE Page 95
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6. FIFTIES GENERATION, MARIJUANA, AND CAFFEINE Page 95 … poetification of angst, and the belief that their contemporary society was characterized by alienation, conformism, inauthenticity, and, most tellingly, “phoniness.” The normal life of the World-War-Two Generation was seen as a “rat race,” motivated by such high ideals (sarcasm intended) as “keeping up with the Joneses,” and pervasive materialism and consumerism. Yet activism was not the beatnik’s predominant response to this perceived negative social context, as it would be only a generation later. Passivism, apathy, pessimism, and defeatism — masquerading often as existential insight — were the most common attitudes expressed. This is what one would expect as a result of marijuana and caffeine use. Nonetheless, art was deemed a weapon, however impotent, with which to rail against what seemed an overwhelming, huge mainstream ignorance or unconsciousness. So the apparent activism of that time in the Fifties is found in rebellious poetry, folk music, and fine arts of all kinds, especially literature, theater, painting, and some film. Yet such artistic renderings had a powerful impact on the culture in that they were contrary, were opposite of, the dominant conformism of the times, as exhibited in the WWII Generation as well as in their establishment-oriented Fifties Generation cohorts.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 7:53 PM

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

Ch 8, p. 118

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PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 118 Glimpses of clarity Nonetheless, concerning the positive aspects of cocaine, it can be mentally enhancing partly because of its repression of fear. For fears, as mentioned, are both of the helpful-cautionary as well as the oppressive types. Being released from the oppressiveness of fears, being freed of the constraints of “fearful thinking,” can result in seeing one’s reality more clearly. Feeling fearless can lead one to acknowledging truths and realities normally defended against — thus being therapeutic even, getting a glimpse of reality outside one’s fears. Reckless Being freed from normal caution, however, can lead one into reckless activities with consequences far beyond one’s ability to handle in either a normal, or drugged, state. It is no coincidence that these stimulant drugs have seen heavy usage by wartime participants — notable are their use by fighter pilots and by American warriors in Vietnam. A land of empathy and insensitivity
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