The Final Revolution?

The British-sponsored youth counterculture rejected any commitment to scientific or technological progress, prefering instead to adopt a "lifestyle" based on use of "mind-expanding" drugs in order to achieve some sort of "self-actualization." Any form of "spiritualism" would do, as long as there were plenty of "touchy-feely" interludes to be had.

I must digress, just to see how perverse this has become: The openly Satanic and utterly psychotic Brit, Ozzie Osbourne, is headlining this year's voodoo fest in New Orleans. Cool, huh?

The Summer of Love turned really ugly at Altamont. The same grunge group that had appeared on Ed Sullivan with, "I kaint git no..."; the same group that went on to record "Her Majesty's Satanic Delight" (for which the lead vocalist was subsequently knighted by her Satanic majesty herself); this same group, performing before thousands, watched as their security (a bunch of Hell's Angels) beat a retarded black guy to death with pool cues.

What had been born at Woodstock, was pronounced dead at Altamont. Cont...

The 1960's

In the literal twilight zone of pre-color TV, everyone huddled around the CBS "eye" and watched the so-called "British Invasion" on Ed Sullivan. The mass hysteria ushered in what came to be known as the "counterculture"; with MIT's Timothy Leary exhorting young people to "turn on, tune in, and drop out" (with the aid of LSD which he'd received from Brave New World author, Aldous Huxley).

"Make love, not war" was the slogan of the day, taken from Marcuse's One Dimentional Man,
which emphasized "eros" over "ethos"; sensuality over principle; feeling over thought.

"Are you experienced?" taunted Jimi Hendrix, suggesting the notion that you had to lose your mind in order to become "liberated."

Eros as body armor played out on Broadway in the musical, Hair, a Dionysian spectacle that concluded with a group grope in the nude.

Huxley, meanwhile, having spawned cults of Isis on the West Coast (where the peace symbol came from), supplied the "electric kool-aid" to Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters, whose psychedelic school bus marquee read, FURTHER.

In other words, no particular destination, other than the next group grope. Cont...

$20 Billion?

There's no way to know how much damage this oil spill will ultimately cause. What's happening beneath the surface has the potential to kill every living organism in the food chain, leaving the entire Gulf essentially dead; depleted of oxygen; for how long is anyone's guess. Try $200 billion, but even that may not be nearly enough.

"Id like my life back."

Yeah, he really said that! Hayward, the same BP guy who initially claimed the damage from the massive oil leak was "very modest." Let this poor guy get on with his life, and expropriate the $450 billion of BP assets for causing the greatest environmental catastrophe in history. Just take it; it's a matter of national security. Buckingham palace is pretty far away, what are they gonna do, invade us? Again?

Does this represent the Brit's Final Solution?--their stated Malthusian objective of culling the world population?