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@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.”
@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 7, 2026, 8:29 PM

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

Ch 8, p. 122

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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

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

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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.”
@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, 7:41 PM

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

Ch 8, p. 121

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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. And even Democrats have come to subscribe to it over the years, with moderate supporters of Hillary Clinton justifying the slanted playing field against Bernie Sanders in 2016. With all these years convincing themselves that progressives cannot win — often using McGovern’s loss as the example — Clintonites ignored the polls showing Bernie Sanders as another transformational figure. Surveys done during the campaign showed such popular support for Sanders — perhaps even more so than for Barrack Obama earlier — that Sanders would have won in a head-to-head against Donald Trump and been even stronger than Hillary Clinton ended up being. And by the way, if progressives cannot win according to moderate Democrats, and the example of McGovern in 1972 is given, how is it that Barrack Obama won in the greatest Democratic landslide in half a century? Barrack Obama ... who campaigned as a fierce progressive, only eight years earlier, and won. 8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 121
@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, 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, 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 29, 2026, 9:33 PM

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

Ch 8, p. 118

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A land of empathy and insensitivity Lastly, since these stimulants repress feelings, they can lead to insensitivity toward others. Yet since they can repress fear which blocks truer perception of and appreciation of others they can, paradoxically, result in feelings of love toward others and a feeling of finally really seeing others and appreciating them for who they are, not simply in the way one has cast them ... “pigeon-holed” them ... to fit into one’s scripts, agendas, ego projects, or desires. Matrix Manifesting The Eighties The Eighties saw an epidemic of cocaine use. This was commonly attributed to Yuppies, which is the popular term for the Young Upwardly-mobile Professional character of this era and is contrasted with the idealistic, activist, and anti–Vietnam-War Yippies. Yippies stands for Youth International Party, whose founders and most famous… PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS Page 118
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 8:31 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022* Ch 6, p 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 27, 2026, 10:17 PM

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

Ch 8, p 117

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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. A land of light and darkness Despite these negatives, the corollary of this mental activity is that one’s ability to think and see more clearly on some issues is enhanced, precisely because one’s fears can pollute one’s perception and apprehension of things. It is enlightening to remember that Sigmund Freud, among other notables in history, experimented with cocaine. At one point, Freud was heartily endorsing its use to his colleagues; he was waxing expansively about its benefits for mental life and clarity of consciousness. “Waxing expansively” does happen to be one of the things one does on cocaine, incidentally. Of course, Freud changed his position on cocaine’s benefits later. No doubt his use led him to see its face of darkness as well. 8. CASTLES IN THE SKY ... COCAINE AND BOOZE Page 117
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