> Sounds conspiratorial. Not really. More like direct action by selfish actors. The existence of Fox News is a direct reaction to the media being non-complia

> Sounds conspiratorial. Not really. More like direct action by selfish actors. The existence of Fox News is a direct reaction to the media being non-compliant about Vietnam. The union busting propaganda was a direct reaction to the strikes of the 70s and early 80s. And the police forces have always been the fascist tools of the moneyed class (see: Pinkertons). No conspiracy is necessary. Elephants will sometimes trample things simply because they are in the way. > The best you can say is psychedelics were banned, which is half of what made the hippies lose interest in their parents’ generation. I would, in fact, reverse that statement. I posit the fact that drug usage (especially marijuana) going mainstream sapped a lot of energy from what people regarded as "counterculture".