1960s counter culture

1960s

capitalism

is rooted not in pervading racism or unjust war, but in the baby-boom generation's narcissism which activist and organizers used to manipulate them into believing that American society was evil and that disruption of the status quo was moral.

To Bannon, and the parade of conservatives he marshals to make his case (Newt Gingrich, Heather MacDonald, Roger Kimball, Michael Novak, and Shelby Steele all get lots of face time), the rebellions of the 1960s were all rooted in the baby-boom generation's narcissism. Not once do racism or the Vietnam War appear as possible causes for mass movements for social change or human liberation. Instead, the left represented by organizer Saul Alinsky and academics Frances Fox Piven and Richard Coward is blamed for manipulating the children of the 1960s into believing that American society was evil and that disruption of the status quo was moral. Only if you ignore the proximate causes of protest, like racism or war, can you make this sort of intellectual leap. But Bannon is just warming up.

1960s counter culture, n.All

1960s counter culture