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It happened , this is it  

40Deuce 46M
4633 posts
3/21/2018 5:21 pm

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It happened , this is it


At my old job I was super old - most of the people there were younger than me and a goodly portion of them were much younger , early twenties . I mean all the execs were still wrinkled old Nosferatu mother fuckers as is required by Capitalis the Lord of Capitalism but in general the folks on the floor were young folks . At my new (is it still "new" after 6 months ? ) job aside from a couple interns running around (literally) most of the workforce is my age or MUCH older . There's plenty of people that have been working there since the 80's and a small minority from before that . That probably said something important about my old job VS my new job but I don't know what it is .

Anyway the point is the conversations at my new place are much different . For instance instead of hearing in insane detail what happened on Walking Dead last night I heard two old hippies lamenting the fact that "they" had "won" in so many areas - civil rights , women's rights , gay rights , ecology , sex , drugs , music , natural foods , holistic medicine , etc. but had "lost the big one" - the economic realm where the free market reigns supreme .

I didn't say anything to them of course , but it got me thinking and I have come to the conclusion that they're wrong . They did win , they won the whole thing , it's just that as often happens they didn't think about what that would really mean .

As I understand the counter-culture movement (and surely being born in 77 I understand it better than anyone) the idea was to free yourself from societal restrictions , choose your own path in life and to define he meaning of that life in whatever way you wanted .

And what's what we have now , they wanted an "anything goes" society and we have it - ANYTHING goes .

Counter-culture barged onto the main stage at the same time as extreme forms of Christianity , conspiracism , libertarianism , unembarrassed greed , Scientology and all kinds of other weird shit - because it's all the same stuff . Forget about what society tells you man , do what YOU want . Now clearly the hippies were of the opinion that this would make the world a place of happiness and love and non-judgement and you can give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that's because they were themselves nice people but society was keeping the lid on a lot of stuff they didn't like as well and removing that lid has all kinds of effects .

An unspoken bargain was made between the Establishment and those against it - going forward individuals will be permitted to indulge their self-expressive and hedonistic impulses in a way that was never allowed before . Which meant that capitalist pigs were unshackled as well to follow THEIR spirit animal the Almighty dollar with fewer and fewer fetters in the form of taxation or regulation or societal judgements . You were free to smoke a bowl and not shower if you want but you were also free to amass insane piles of cash for no reason other than to have it .

"Do your own thing" and "every man for himself" are sides of the same coin . "If it feels good do it" means listening to jam-bands and watching porn to some and opposing gun control and paying yourself 4000 times what your employees make to others .

Legal equality increased but there was another more fundamental form of equality that also expanded - everyone is free to believe WHATEVER they want . Believe the dream , mistrust authority , do your own thing , find your own truth - equality came to mean not only that everyone should be treated equally but also that anyone's beliefs about anything were as equally true as anyone else's .

The principal of absolute tolerance became axiomatic in our culture and internalized in our psychology . What I believe to be true is true because I want it to be true - individualism transmogrified into solipsism .

The counter-culture enabled a deep and board believe anything you want ethos that has empowered the right much more than the left . It gave license to everyone to let their freak flags fly - superselfish Ayn Randanians as well as New Age shamans , fundamentalists and evangelicals and charismatic sociopaths and academic relativists , conspiracy nuts and civil war reenactors and people who claim to be abducted by aliens or possessed by the Devil or a vampire or a gun-nut or a porn addict and gamblers and philanderers - the levees were broken . Do your own thing .

Henceforth reality will be whatever you want .

You inviolate individual

You empowered American

You priest of your own religion

You author of your own story

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40Deuce 46M
5725 posts
3/21/2018 5:23 pm

On the downside while the discourse is generally much more interesting at this job there's no sexy ladies to oogle . Except the CEO and she's not around much . Why can't I find a job with sexy ladies and interesting conversation ? That's the real question .

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smartasswoman 66F  
35813 posts
3/21/2018 6:12 pm

Well that’s depressing. Come back, Sialis!


40Deuce replies on 3/23/2018 5:11 pm:
Welcome back Cialis - now there's a reboot

wickedeasy 74F
32404 posts
3/23/2018 12:39 pm

well fuck it, back to the commune i guess. i really hated it there.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.


40Deuce replies on 3/23/2018 5:12 pm:
Seems legit

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