"So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
Dr. Gonzo penned those words for the suckers bet false hope and lie of hippiedom, but they also work in context and timeframe for Western Civilization as a whole. That Post-War to Nixon era was the Crest of the Wave. The detritus and flotsam then sludged in to subsume the best we had to offer.
"So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
Dr. Gonzo penned those words for the suckers bet false hope and lie of hippiedom, but they also work in context and timeframe for Western Civilization as a whole. That Post-War to Nixon era was the Crest of the Wave. The detritus and flotsam then sludged in to subsume the best we had to offer.
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