Thread by @sillymickel

“Chapter 9,” titled “To Save the World:

“Millennials...Psychedelics & Activism”

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

From *Culture War Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

by Michael Adzema

(publishing 9/2022)

THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur… #90s #Ecstasy #psychology #history

CW22Q 9/1

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

From *Culture War Class War 2022:

*Truth & Generations*

by Michael Adzema

(available on website now & to be published Sept 2022)

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CW22Q 9/2

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

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CW22Q 9/3

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

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CW22Q 9/4

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

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CW22Q 9/5

[] “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 9/6

[] “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 9/7

[] “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 9/8

[] “…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 9/9

]“In thr desperation, [the WWII Gen] risked any cost in terms of outlandish scandals, government costs, & loss of social progress & governmental effectiveness. They were helped by a 50s Gen entering retirement with a lot of wealth…”[]

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CW22Q 9/10

[] “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 9/11

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

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CW22Q 9/12

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

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CW22Q 9/13

[] “Following that, [Millennial Gen’s] anti-racism 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 9/14

[] “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 9/15

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

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CW22Q 9/16

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

THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur… #WWIIGen #40s #WWII #drugs #psychology #history

CW22Q 9/17

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

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CW22Q 9/18

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

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CW22Q 9/19

[] “…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 9/20

[] & it should need no explanation how cocaine use could be correlated with a manic economy & irrational, overoptimistic schemes, & failed business ventures.” []

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CW22Q 9/21

[] “…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 9/22

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