I think it was McCartney who recently called out the nonsense of the lyric and vibe of this sort of song.…

I think it was McCartney who recently called out the nonsense of the lyric and vibe of this sort of song. It’s a window into the massive social/cultural shift that became our culture. The counterculture. When high school took over the world. 1/6 https://t.co/j2u6QDFrH0

When high school culture hit adult life post-WW2, with the old adult status quo critically damaged, and thought what do we do here? This war and fighting stuff seems distasteful. Let’s sing songs about no more war, and love and peace. 2/6

No means to an end here. Just ends. Fantasies, created by a demographic forcibly separated from adult life through its schooling, and then having to figure out what to do when the old adult world knocked on the door at graduation. The ‘establishment’ must be the cause. 3/6

As Trump steers wrecking balls through that establishment right now, we don’t even see the continuity of what’s happening. It’s the endgame of the counterculture. Trump is the love-child of The Beatles and the counterculture. ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ - they’re all fans. 4/6

I’ve Tweeted before how all the major powers of our time took their culture from an earlier revolution. Russia, China, and us too in the West. But we think Western culture is just an objective way of life. Western culture today is the countercultural revolution. 5/6

The day teenagers took over the world, and re-made it as a giant high school. A ‘free market’, really just a social fiction to strip away all existing hierarchy - the ‘establishment’ - and allow each to do whatever they like. Not politics or economics. An entire culture. /end