> "The one time that society allowed young people to explore their interests, to not work (the 60s), the establishment was so scared at the revolution they never wanted that freedom to ever be available again"
Do you have any links or references, I'm particularly curious about how society allowed young people to not work & pursue their interests. Was there some sought of Universal basic income? A few more details will be greatly appreciated.
It wasn't really about UBI, as some of the participants were able to live because they were financed by their parents. For example, the billions and billions war on drugs/criminalization of drugs likely started out of a strong reaction to counter the threat of the counter-culture movement. And we all know what effect the war on drugs has had.
> "You want to know what this was really all about?" Ehrlichman asked, referring to the war on drugs.
> "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news."
> "Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did," he concluded, according to Baum.
Do you have any links or references, I'm particularly curious about how society allowed young people to not work & pursue their interests. Was there some sought of Universal basic income? A few more details will be greatly appreciated.