I am old hippie, and proud of it. I wish to point out that my tribe did not kill three million Vietnamese and the fifty thousand Americans alongside them, nor did we defoliate that nation with toxic chemicals. My tribe did not allow the savings and loan industry to wipe out the retirement funds of millions of dedicated citizens. We did not countenance and coordinate the murder of thousands of Guatemalans and Nicaraguans. Nor did we unleash the poisons prevalent in our air and water and thus create an epidemic of cancer. It’s corporate businessmen, not hippies, who have driven the productive wage earning industries from our shores and replaced them with a minimum wage service economy, forcing both parents to work and transforming the nation’s children into unsupervised, angry, gun-toting specters. So now our world is faced with an impending time of overpopulation, mass starvation, choking pollution, incurable epidemics and plagues, children killing children, and savagery from madmen that will make Hitler, Stalin, and Mao look like mere knaves.