From Counterculture to Culture and Back Again

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks onstage during Bitcoin Conference 2023 on May 19, 2023, in Miami Beach, Florida. (Photo by Jason Koerner/Getty Images for Bitcoin Magazine)

After I wrote the last page and showered and ate lunch and feel calmed down now. Heard a song on the radio though—was turning away from rock and roll music which only wasn’t me and got a conservative station with a girl singing ‘Go ahead and hate your nabor, go ahead and cheat a friend’—but I heard, at the time, ‘Go and kill (or shoot) your nabor,’ which disturbed me greatly.

… Hurrah! Hurrah! Great day for democracy and capitalism! A 50 percent voter turn out is expected: Now THAT’S confidence in America. 

Diary of Arthur Bremer, would-be assassin of George Wallace
(Errors in original.) 
(Nixon won a 49-state landslide)

About that other Bobby Kennedy: When William F. Buckley Jr. was asked why Attorney General Kennedy refused to appear on Firing Line, Buckley’s television show, he answered: “Why does the baloney reject the grinder?” 

Anno Domini 2023: So much baloney, so few grinders.

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