>The 80s and 90s had a more libertarian or liberal (less authoritarian left) vibe. Looking back on it, it's hard to decipher. I explained to my son that once,

>The 80s and 90s had a more libertarian or liberal (less authoritarian left) vibe. Looking back on it, it's hard to decipher. I explained to my son that once, a movie usher asked me to put out my cigarette at a midnight movie. This while the rest of the patrons were smoking pot, which was so commonplace at midnight movies that the authorities just ignored it. Those decades were a strange battleground between intellectual freedom (and hedonism) jousting with the establishment. This decade, I don't feel that promise of wholly unbridled intellectual freedom, and the excitement it caused. I suppose the establishment won.