Destruction of western civilization

Rating: 3/10 (31 January 2008)

When I was a young person I and my friends laughed at the scorn we received by our parents, the straights, and the establishment due to the new music, idealism, and freedom we embraced. We called it freedom, expanded consciousness, and heightened awareness when all along we were reducing our consciousness, and conforming to all the other rebels as though it was our own idea. We marched in step to self delusion and selfishness in the guise of liberation.
The counterculture, and the resulting drugs, excessiveness, and permissiveness destroyed more people than all the wars combined, millions of lives all in the name of individuality and free expression. We still suffer from the effects of the self indulgence of that time now in the form of pornography, gambling, rap music, pop culture, stupidness, pharmaceutical drugs, laziness, fatness, and loathsomeness. We still have leaders today trying to make something good out of the lies of the past. You would think we had learned by now.
We can thank the Beatles and others. Why we still celebrate them and can't see through what we fell for after all these years amazes me.