age-specific statement

Nestled between old and middle aged is a provocative generation who came of age during the second half of the 1960s. For most of their adult lives they wore a badge of honor for just being who they were, when they were. Never content to be images of the generation ahead of them, they predominated over a culture of youth. The turned-on, summer of love hippies of Haight-Ashbury, the tuned-in future barons of Silicon Valley and the drop-out activists of academia ignited the spark that allowed the philosophy major to turn venture capitalist; the protestor to turn teacher; the poet to neuter gender in her syntax; and the long haired engineering student to become socially conscience.

But now the ranks of the “never trust anyone over 30” are looking over their 60 year-old shoulders into an ever accelerating hallucination. Many see themselves as youthful, while others feel the ravages of a weakened body and spirit. Communally they clutch their iphone with the same zeal as their VW steering-wheel 40 years past, and gaze down a new uncertain highway.