Hmmmmm. He started out as a rebel, advised us that we "took sides", needed to take sides (division), talks as if real life was a movie (is it?) and in the end became exactly everything we were before the (his) "rebellion". He talks fondly about freedom, individualism, personal accountability, yet he represents the antithesis of that. Take away guns, political correctness, big government ad nauseum.
This guy is a total contradiction and he doesn't even see it. He's come full circle, which means that maybe he was all wrong and wasted the last 40 years. I think he did actually, because he still doesn't get it. He's still living in a psychedelic flashback.
We didn't actually waste those years. Many good things came out of those times if you think about it. But maybe they would have happened anyway. I lived through all that too. I never looked like many of the 60's wierdos. There weren't that many of them, actually. I'm 4 years older than that guy and I embrace many of the evolutions that occured during the last 40 years. A lot of the changes that have occured, happened because world wide communiction took a quantum leap forward at the same time and we were able to know what was going on anywhere at a moments notice. That's what really changed things; instant info. Hell the fax machine brought down the Soviet Empire; they started to get information and wanted more. Providence provided a few men at the same time that were able to recognize what was occuring or decided to not resist the tide.
A lot of the nonsense that Kornbluth puts on a pedestal is justs that, nonsense, and it came at a horrid price in many ways.
Just my 2 cents.
