Another socio-econo-political gap [for ron paul]

The Ramones music plays like pure pop to our ears now. It's hard to believe that their approach made people feel genuinely offput and shaken up back in their time.

Remember, the Ramones is as far back to the kids of today as the fuggin Glenn Miller Orchestra was to the Beatles. HA!

I ACTUALLY FEEL NOSTALGIA FOR THE KIND OF DISAFFECT THOSE LATE 70'S KID FELT. AT LEAST THEY HAD THE GUMPTION TO TURN IT INTO SELF-DESTRUCTION. KIDS TODAY ARE SO IMPOTENT AND NUMB ALL THEY CAN DO IS POINT IT OUTWARD IN THE FORM OF SHAMELESS CONSUMERISM. IT'S THE SAME WAY I FEEL NOSTALGIA FOR A KAFKA-VISION OF OFFICE ALIENATION. TODAY'S CUBICLE WORKER BEES HANG UP SELF-EFFACTING CLIPPINGS OF DILBERT AND WORSHIP AT THE ALTAR OF THEIR OWN BLAND MISERY.

you do realize that a lot of the apathy our young people feel, their obsession with the self, is created by the consumer culture we forward by shopping at costco and wal mart and target.

THAT OBSESSION WITH THE SELF STEMS DIRECTLY FROM THE UTTER FAILURE OF 60'S RADICALISM/UTOPIANISM
in other words:
the failure of idealistic liberals from the 60s...the manson family goes on a killing spree and everyone realizes that not every ideal is a good one

WHEN THE RADICALS HIT THE MASSIVE BRICK WALL OF THE POLICE AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THEY TURNED INWARD CLAIMING, "WELL, IF WE CAN'T CHANGE THE WORLD WE CAN AT LEAST WORK ON OURSELVES". ALL THE YIPPIES AND ALL THE RADICALS GOT MIRED IN SELF-HELP IDEOLOGY LIKE EST AND OTHER "NEW THERAPIES". THE PROBLEM IS THAT THEY NEVER CAME OUT OF IT. EST WAS THE BIGGEST FUCKING JOKE AND IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE IT TOOK OVER THE NATION LIKE IT DID. THEN THOSE PEOPLE WENT ON TO VOTE FOR REAGAN, AND THEIR KIDS WERE THE FIRST GENERATION OF BLANKED-MINDS OF THE 90s.

The so-called Pepsi Generation....MTV generation...Gen X......what else is there?

THEIR CHIEF AXIOM [EST] WAS, "THE EXISTENTIALISTS SAID THAT LIFE HAD NO MEANING...WHICH IS TRUE....EXCEPT THE EXISTENTIALISTS MADE THE GRAND MISTAKE OF SAYING THAT THIS REALIZATION IN ITSELF HAD SOME KIND OF MEANING". EST CLAIMED THAT LIFE'S MEANINGLESSNESS WAS A FORM OF LIBERATION AND THAT IT WAS ONE'S RESPONSIBILITY TO FOCUS ONLY ON ONE'S OWN IMMMEDIATE HAPPINESS. THIS KIND OF THINKING TOOK THE NATION BY STORM AND WAS MANIPULATED BY THE REAGAN CAMPAIGN TO WIN A CONSTITUANCY.

This sounds like a lot of bullshit libertarian dogma to me.

THE FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN WAS HAMMERED WHEN THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION USED THE SAME TACTICS TO SECURE HIS 2ND TERM.

Wow, he's on a rampage that stems from sympathy of 70s punkers.

MY POINT IS SIMPLE, AN OUTLINE.....YOU CAN DRAW A SAD AND NOBLE LINE FROM FDR ALL THE WAY TO 1ST TERM CLINTON. THEN THE BUCK STOPS.