Theodore White in one of his Making of the President books made the argument that the youth rebellion of the 1960's -- The Making of a Counter Culture, as Theodore Roszak named it -- was owing to the success of the post-secondary educational system. It created leaders. And when these leaders went from the university to the workforce they rebelled because what they found there -- Roszak called it "technocratic society" -- was contrary to what they had been taught. I think that's right.
To block the work week from our thoughts and bring us home on a Friday night here are the Maldives, a fine Seattle band, performing "Blood Relations":
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