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by ziggy_star 731 days ago
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)?