Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Neil Young Comes Crawling Back To Spotify! w/ Dr. Robert Malone" video.
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One thing I noticed, growing up in the '60s and '70s was that the non-conformist hippy types all looked, dressed, and talked the same way. It was a strange, twisted kind of conformity that they claimed to be rebelling against. They weren't protesting conformity. They wanted a new orthodoxy, and they were less tolerant of any deviation than their parents ever were towards their spoiled children's self-indulgences and experimentation.
I remember seeing this same cohort later in life. They had hippy churches, and the rigid conformity I saw, there, was more constricting than the more (then-)conservative Methodist Church I grew up in. If you wanted to get on, socially, at the little college, you went to the Unitarian Church, and let everyone know what a good Democrat you were. When I was younger, the Methodists stuck to "love Jesus, obey God, sin less, and don't judge others."
Really, the hippies were never about expressing yourself, freely, even when they were brandishing signs demanding free speech. It was always only about what side they were on at the time. Now that generation IS the establishment, and their disdain for free speech is undeniable.
Even when history has proven them wrong, they insist on their blind, pro-establishment hot takes, because they feel they ARE the establishment, life is great for them, and preserving their privileges makes them support the established order that serves them so well.
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