Thread by @sillymickel

*Culture War Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

(available on website now & 2b published Sept 2022)

Quotes/Highlights THREAD from Chapter 11, titled,

“To Save the World:

“Millennials…Psychedelics & Activism”

THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur… #drugs #generations

CW22Q 11/1

[Quotes/highlights:] “Not coincidentally, Millennial Generation parents were predominantly of the Vietnam Generation/ Boomers & Millennials echoed their parent’s more liberal & mind-expanding drug use.” []

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CW22Q 11/2

[] “The psychedelic that came on the scene at this time & enamored the youth of the Nineties was, however, ecstasy.” []

[] “Ecstasy, also known as MDMA, is very similar chemically to the amphetamines.” []

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CW22Q 11/3

[] “Ecstasy has an hallucinogenic aspect, which distinguishes it, however. Yet it more reliably elicits the opening to love for others & the favorable perceptions of others & sense of unity with them….” []

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CW22Q 11/4

[] “Raves became an emerging phenomenon following somewhat upon the fading of the disco phase—a decline which occurred in the late Seventies, early Eighties.” []

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CW22Q 11/5

[] “So raves were a phenomenon coincident with the rising use of Ecstasy & primarily affecting the generations following the Yuppie/Me-Generation…” []

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CW22Q 11/6

[] “…though during the Nineties the WWII Generation was in the process of leaving the scene, those elderly of them left were conducting a fierce rearguard battle to save what they could of the culture they knew & created.” []

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CW22Q 11/7

[] “In their desperation, [the Filthy Rich of the WWII Gen] risked any cost in terms of outlandish scandals, government costs, & loss of social progress & governmental effectiveness.” []

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CW22Q 11/8

[] “[The Filthy Rich of the WWII Generation] were helped by a Fifties Generation entering retirement with a lot of wealth…” []

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CW22Q 11/9

[] “Beginning in 1992, with the election of Bill Clinton, the youth vote swung back to going for the Democrats. There has been an increase in activism & idealism among the young in the last three decades.” []

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CW22Q 11/10

[] “…the issues that appeared to concern Millennials the most have to do with racism & the environment.” []

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CW22Q 11/11

[] “It is no coincidence in the peak of [Millennial's] influence as young adults, there was an astounding wave of participation in Obama’s campaign, largely by this cohort, resulting in the first African-American to attain the presidency.” []

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CW22Q 11/12

[] “Following that, anti-racism [of the Millennial Generation] came to the fore during the massive & ongoing demonstrations of Black Lives Matter, following the cold-blooded murder of George Floyd in 2020.” []

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CW22Q 11/13

[] “This group [Millennials] also has fears that the future might not be very bright or as good as it was in times before them, particularly in terms of a ruined ecology due to environmental assault and/or nuclear disaster,..” []

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CW22Q 11/14

[] “…yet Millennials, like their [60s Gen] parents, also are more likely to activism & taking up causes in the face of such dire possibilities.” []

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CW22Q 11/15

[] “…alcohol & nicotine use could be correlated with a generation [the WWII Gen] that could put a Hitler into power, create a holocaust, & carry out the most destructive war in this planet’s history.” []

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CW22Q 11/16

[] “It should be obvious how marijuana use could be correlated with the alienation, pessimism, & defeatism of the Beats.” []

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CW22Q 11/17

[] “It should be abundantly clear how the use of LSD & marijuana among 60s youth could correlate with a disgust w normal society & culture & thus the creation, from scratch, of a counterculture, with a pacifism in regard to war,..” []

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CW22Q 11/18

[] “…with a reemergence of a lived & individual spirituality, with an emphasis on real communication, with an attempt to create real community & relationships, & with much more that has been associated with [the 60s Generation].” []

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CW22Q 11/19

[] “& it should need no explanation how cocaine use [of the 80s Generation/ Gen X] could be correlated with a manic economy & irrational, overoptimistic schemes, & failed business ventures.” []

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CW22Q 11/20

[] “…these drug-influenced perceptions create the worldviews of generations out of which they create their generational cultures—the stark differences of which can fuel culture wars.” []

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CW22Q 11/21

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