Alcoholism and anti-intellectualism put you right at home in both the old American elite and, actually, also the currently existing one. The only difference is

Alcoholism and anti-intellectualism put you right at home in both the old American elite and, actually, also the currently existing one. The only difference is that, in 1960, you actually had a good chance of launching into it from college. The sports are different based on geography and social class-- it wasn't not beer and football in 1960-era Harvard-- but the concepts haven't changed much. The biggest problem with college, I think, is that happens at the wrong age, at least for a materially spoiled but culturally impoverished and extremely immature set of people-- the American middle class. People are in school not at the "right" ages but during the years in which society judges them to be economically useless.