Peace is Cool, But Arrogant Consumerism is Power

Just finished Tom Robbins' "Another Roadside Attraction." The book served to entertain, but also succeeded in continuing an ongoing image debate. Hippie or hipster? The book makes a strong case for the freedom and serenity that comes from being one with nature, but then again an urban persona is so exciting and tres chic. One can only suppose the winning point is that the book was written in 1971. Inner serenity and the hippie movement is a thing of the past glimpsed only (and in dwindling numbers) at music festivals and in small Appalachian mountain communities. Enter the reign of self-entitlement and skinny jeans.