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Eeyore ’s Corner: From Hippies to Yuppies to Our Puppies

Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Three: Puppydom The grandchildren of the hippies and the children of the Yuppies? They are a different, a hybrid bunch altogether.  They combine all the worst traits of both leftist eras: selfishness, performance art, the I/me/my/mine self-infatuation (“my story,” “my truth,” “my narrative”), crudity, vulgarity and rudeness of

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Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part Two: Yuppiedom The nihilism of the protests movements, the drop-outs’ human wreckage, the end of the draft and American involvement in Vietnam, and the ‘silent majority’ reaction to hippiness, all ended the Sixites, albeit in the 1970s. George McGovern’s landslide loss to Richard Nixon in 1972 marked the

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Eeyore ’s Corner: From Hippies to Yuppies to Our Puppies

Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers Part One: Hippiedom The Sixties were, as the late, great Peter Collier and the astute David Horowitz wrote, the work of a “Destructive Generation.” Some of the best minds of the conservative movement who lived through those wasted years chronicled their excesses—the narcissism, the selfishness, and the legacy of

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