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That book strongly reminds me of this review of "On the Road":

> On The Road seems to be a picture of a high-trust society. Drivers assume hitchhikers are trustworthy and will take them anywhere. Women assume men are trustworthy and will accept any promise. Employers assume workers are trustworthy and don’t bother with background checks. It’s pretty neat.

> But On The Road is, most importantly, a picture of a high-trust society collapsing. And it’s collapsing precisely because the book’s protagonists are going around defecting against everyone they meet at a hundred ten miles an hour.

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Well observed. The very ending of On The Road itself addresses this if you read carefully, Kerouac did not lack in self awareness.

But then again he was a yuppie not a hippie trying to levitate the pentagon so that all the evil spirits fall out. ;)

And here we are where we are eh?

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Kerouac aside, wasn't it the yippies (not yuppies) that were doing the Pentagon performance?

ISTR yuppies were years after the Youth International Party (and quite different).

Anyone?

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Sorry I really bungled it up. Blame autocorrect and lack of coffee.

Meant to say Kerouac was a beatnik, Abbie was a yippie who inspired a generation of dirty hippies.

And we've sunk further still but I don't know that there is a lasting term yet. Maybe it will be NPC? I favor Quaranteenie (which makes less sense but sounds more fun, I mean by it a teenager who was locked up during their formative years and ended up a politically active mentally ill ignoramus)?