These are some things we have learned from the now older baby boom generation, who were defined by their music, admission of sex as recreation, soft drug use and long hair.
Campus unrest: Administrators with their security teams have learned how to stifle free and critical thinking on the nation's campuses of higher learning. At one time, the America-Viet Nam war was stopped and black people everywhere began to be noticed as humans because of enlightened students protesting stupid racial customs and ignorant politicians. The only light students are capable of seeing today is the one at the end of the end of the tunnel of graduation, which signals the begining of disillusionment when they find a degree down't guarentee a job.
Music: There are very "songs" on the radio protesting environmental, political or racial inequalities these days. That's because the now-rich boomers have figured it's better to crank out rap music albums telling the young how kill each other, and not the "established" people. Very few musicians thses days are saviours, except for their own bank accounts.
War: the military industrial machine is raking in money hand-over-fist thanks to aging boomers pouring investment money into the stock market, which in turn fuels the wars, ad nauseum.
Free thinking: Dead! No one wants to think anything radical, because no one will listen, or those who do will become threats instead of adversaries.
I think I'll go do a crossword puzzle. It's less upsetting.
