Originally Posted by Bristoe
Originally Posted by Stickfight
The top pic reminds me of a good metaphorical documentary on the Boomer generation: the movie Easy Rider.

Two motorcycle boomers contract with a Jew to import drugs from Mexicans up to California. The Jew makes it clear he is going to push these drugs on White school kids but the boomers really want to have a Good Time so that doesn't bother them. They use the profit to finance a motorcycle trip across the country to Mardi Gras, and during the journey they engage in all sorts of degeneracy: drugs, casual sex, drugs, visiting a boomer hippie commune where everyone is on drugs, laughing at the local peasants. Normal boomer stuff.

They meet a guy who they befriend, and when he gets killed they just leave his corpse on the side of the road so their Good Time is not interrupted. They do visit the whorehouse their dead friend recommended, where they do drugs with the hookers. A Good Time is had by all.

Important symbolism is present through the entire movie. One of the main boomers is decorated with US flags and so is his motorcycle. In pursuit of his Good Time he rides that motorcycle until it is literally destroyed, never once having a care for its future.

Really good movie if you have the time and you watch it for what it is.

If you want some *real* good stuff to rag on the Boomers about read Tom Wolfe's "Electric Kool Aid Acid Test"--about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on their bus trip.

"Easy Rider" Was Hollywood's Boomers. Ken Kesey and his bunch pretty much kicked off the 60s counterculture movement in real life. Although some people might attribute it to Jack Kerouac and the beatniks--"On The Road" and all of that new age poetry stuff. Although there was significant blending of the two groups at that time since beatnik Neal Cassidy was the driver of the hippies Merry Prankster bus. The real 60s counterculture movement didn't really last all that long. Charles Manson, of the Silent generation pretty much put the hiatus on it in 1969. So it was only a 4 or 5 year phenomenon.

Anybody remember Maynard G. Krebs?

That's who he was before he became Gilligan.
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If you want to understand the counter culture hippie movement “On The Road” as a beatnik forerunner and especially the “Electric Kool Aid Test” pretty well explain it. It wasn’t a random movement that sprung out of nowhere. There are key figures that if not started it they took it mainstream. Tom Wolfe’s book spells it out. It’s entertaining and a must read for understanding the roots of where it started IMO.

Back in the early days of LSD Ken Kesey was a janitor in a San Francisco psych ward and stealing LSD intended for patients. He experimented with it and wrote a book about it. “One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest.” Kesey’s, book later made into a movie made Kesey an overnight celebrity and he used his proceeds to hire a mostly unknown local band the Greatful Dead to be his house band while giving out LSD and hiring Neal Cassidy, made famous by Jack Kerouac and his book “On The Road” as his driver to ride around the Bay Area passing out LSD in punch bowls the “electric kool aid test.” He hired The Hells Angels for security and an attempt to bring the working class counterculture bikers on board with the upper middle class hippie counter culture and it kicks off from there. Kesey more than anyone took a small subculture hippie movement mainstream.