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Show ! he evolution of words brick wall falls on them at last. When a crtt, square bodied scion and pillar in the community C to admit that that hairy tube-shaped freak overthe is his son and heir, and when the non-teat non-thinking matron who never thought psychoid worth a hill of beans loses her own sweet daughtett-dope daughtett-dope addiction, then she wakes up and starts to something more than standardized trash. Deserves What Receives Those parents sowed these seeds blindly t ignorantly from 1945 to 1965. They have what deserve. They closed their eyes to true values audi education for THEMSELVES during the years were sickly obsessed with status for themselves it education for their children. Now the children m have education, but they have neither status intelligence. These middle aged people were phony hypocritical in nearly everything they undertookt do. Mothers went to work for two reasons, kt. inimical to the purpose of motherhood, (1) Gmk (2) Excitement. Now they have the fruits of boi: reasons they have the plush home and the extra and the washer and dryer and boat; they have tl: excitement of rebellion, anarchy, dope addictio-treason addictio-treason in the hearts of those marshmallows in it TV Room in 1955. Fathers, dominated by ik wickedness of the American woman (Philip Wyfek already covered this), kowtowed and remove themselves from their children in order to work It status, for money for the children's education-it intending to pay for it too making of themseb nothing but beasts of burden, ignoring their ot: education, ignoring human needs and values. When child is 10 or 12 he doesn't care a speck whether t father's downtown earning money for his col-; education or not. In his mind college is ia i never land. What he knows at that age is that fab is not home, mother is not home, and the carpi! ! and picture windows do not mean to him what mean to his parents. The child has never knowi i: without carpeting and picture windows. Better i had all hanged that nebulous future college educai and let the child go out and work part time ' when the day dawned. By Keith Moore Today as never before the older people are tymied by what has become of the younger people What has happened almost overnight-since President John . Kennedy's assassination-to shake the drab gray .cons of the 1920s, '30s and '40s from their pedest als f The answer is hypocrisy on the part of the older generation-more exactly it is intellectual hypocrisy. Who are the older people? They are people who were reared in a Victorian environment which was hypocritical about different things and for different reasons. The chief one of those things was sex as a topic for conversation. Consequently, the parents ot hippies acquired a morbid, exaggerated fascination with sex. The word "sex" itself finally became a catch-all, gummed label for nearly anything from noble procreation down the scale to the shade of a girl's lipstick. The noun developed a quantitative value, as in the phrase "Is there any sex in that movie?" or "It had too much sex for me." Then came the adjectives, both "sex" and "sexy," as "He buys sex books" or "Play it with a sexy rhythm." Word Evolution At about the time the word "bitch" evolved from its role as a serious profanity to its current job as a high-school term of worth or approbation (bitchin' party, bitch of a guy), the words "sex" and "sexy" had completed their virulent role and passed into their present neuter state, in which it is now possible for a two-year-old moppet to say "sex" or "sexy" and not an eyebrow will arch. This critical point in household use of some formerly very critical terms occurred about 1960. Since then, interestingly enough, there has been a gradual devaluation of nearly all language, so that nowadays nearly any concept or human being is stuck with a gummed label, threadbare, misconnotative and neutered of all original meaning. Moreover, once stuck with a label, a person is doomed to live up or down to it, and woe be unto him who tries to change his image from it. Perhaps it all got its impetus from the "good guys" and "bad guys" of television. The second big weakness of the parents of rioters and protestors was that of materialism. Having been literally frightened to death by the Depression they emerged into the 1940s paranoid about poverty. This actually is what gave rise to that whole two or three decade plague known as Keeping Up With The Joneses. Sinclair Lewis spent his last years still writing about it. It has taken nearly 20 years for the cancer he detected to make itself painful. Created Rebellious Society Those hypocrites, having abandoned religions: self-development and embraced materialism w appearances in their stead, have created today'; rebellious society. Hippiedom is a search for hones and one faced ness. Hippiedom and all its compank schools are a retaliation against the two-fiat authorities of these children's youth, siii Janus faced people as parents (already shown), d teachers and professors and administrators who te evinced a false concern for them. Ask any coll? student what he goes through and he will tell )' that ideals and platitudes are mouthed from the top of ivied buildings, but once inside he is met bysnf lowly clerks (usually women who hate the wort' computerized red tape, and by teachers & administrators genuinely interested in their on status over and above real help for the student Nowadays it is not unusual for letters and requests! go unanswered and ignored, for teachers to prff ideals in their classes and deny the same ideals infe real life actions. Women Work For Greed Women hate offices, are mean and miserable wk not fulfilling themselves. If a woman does not chtf to stay single and fulfill herself in her work, shell no business in administrative offices, in banks, teaching. If her heart is still at home with chil and geraniums, she has no business throwing resentful attitudes around the offices of any fn university. Women are in offices for one rea only greed. They have single-handedly caused11 vicious circle of greed, credit living, debt; credit living, debt.- And now at last the debt is their own offspring, the hippies and rebels with p cause who for 20 years watched them play out t phony role. That role has one only basic motf greed. Of such were the mothers of hippies, v Babittessas have blindly fostered the desire for j by subtly influencing their children to believe t materialism and status that shows are the end-go life. Children, with their simple intelligence whic superior in some ways to that of adults, knew along that this was a lie. Kick a dog long enough and it will bite backT is what today's youth culture boils down tcr nature biting back at the greed, phoniness, stuP and slobbishness of a generation, which also ha" values warped, and which is just now beginning l! rather belatedly that dumb possessi" TV-watching, and libidinous tiltillation do 1 comprise happiness. If the pendulum falls to " during the 1970s, it will be the first good ol1 whole 20th century. Slobbishness, Materialism Interact Somewhere here is a fine line into the third great weakness of today's middle-lifers, and that is intellectual paucity or slobbishness. This qualtiy is closely related to materialism, and the two interact. Therefore, the forces which shaped these hypocrites were chiefly three: (1) Morbid fascination with a thing called Sex all its overtones, all its idolatry, all its status; (2) the Depression the mania for possession and physical comfort which it spawned; and (3) the devaluation of intellectual or artistic values. These hypocrites, then, have passed their lives thus far in attending a little church, playing a little golf, reading and believing a very little spoonfed standardized material, and watching a great deal of television. Their prime concern, as is well known, was status status that shows. Children Handed Everything Hippies were born about 1948, the year television was in a few homes and hotel lobbies, a snowy novelty to stop and look at in furniture-store windows. Their impressionable years were the 1950s, a decade of greed and ignorance and the sowing of today's hydra. The children of the 1950s were treated inconsistently by their parents. They were handed everything as a right and mollycoddled into marshmallowy lumps plunked in front of TV sets, or overeating from the "bar" in the "family room."' At the same time they were being shielded from nearly everything-including weather between home and school three blocks away-their parents were telling them to shape up or ship out, or to make a man of themselves, or to get with it, or to study hard and get top grades and be the big, top-of-your-class success that I wasn't but that I'm "sacrificing" so you can be Now, at the close of the 1960s, the most infamous decade m American history, some of those dolts are at last seeing the error of their ways. Today one hears of confirmed Babbitts, who, heretofore, never questioned a single thing in their big square gray world, to turn for help, actually to plead "What am I doing wrong? What have I done to bring this about in my own home?" When it hits their own homes the |