Charles Bastille
1 min readJun 25, 2021

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I mentioned on another post, and eventually I'll write a Medium post about this, that the protests we saw last year were mostly fueled by young people.

The same thing happened in the 1970s when I was young. But then, the protesters all turned into materialistic yuppies. The former protester Bob Dylan gets old and sells his music library for $300 million. I'm sure he'll give most of it to charity, though, right?

I don't see this happening to your generation because to own anything requires a massive debt load. The only hope is winning the fight against the 40 year reign of Reaganomics.

But it's hard to make that prediction with much confidence. Today's musical protesters, mostly rappers, are sucked into the money pit, too.

The entertainment and sports industries, hell, even TikTok stars nowadays, are extensions of Reaganomics and Ayn Rand's world.

This old dude chasing you down to tell you what to do is just an old fart living in fear. He knows something is horribly wrong, even though he probably doesn't know what. But he doesn't want you to do anything about it. Give him the finger and keep walking away.

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Charles Bastille
Charles Bastille

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