There's a spirt of renewal that's key to the American character, as obvious in our youth today as in any other generation. The difference now is that those meant to be the caretaker of that spirt, to protect our right to express it, are serving the very forces that suppress it.

I see this on university campuses all the time. The suffocation of ideas and the mandatory conformity is truly depressing

I heard some college kids talk about the "mistakes" made by the "hippie generation," and I said, "Like what, that we weren't corporate whores?"

Hippies effortlessly morphed into Yuppies by the 80s. Their music became the soundtrack for commercials pushing autos and wealth management