What’s Old is New Again

Anti-establishmentarianism is genetic?

Although current youth and their allies may applaud their new discovery of diversity, equality, and inclusion, and the oppressive nature of it’s enemies, recognition of talent, quality and accomplishment, their lack of knowledge of its moderate history in our country should be cause for some self-induced shame.

Those of us Baby Boomers slowly creaking towards obsolescence are largely responsible for their passionate rejection of any status quo, no matter how improvisational it may be. Suffering from the oppressive privileges of the post-WW II era of American hegemony and prosperity, we exploded with adolescent outrage against the truly evil remnants of segregation and racial discrimination, piggybacking on the actually heroic risks and efforts of civil rights activists. Seeing our successful coercion of that era’s gerontocracy regarding the Civil Rights acts of the early to mid -1960’s, our opposition to being made fodder for pungi stakes and jungle rot in Viet Nam was emboldened. …