Reply #58: I was in Boston

[Warpy]

and the revolutionary zeal lasted until the mid 70s. They were mostly trash talking PIAs but they scared the hell out of reasonable people. Then everybody either moved someplace they could have an organic garden and kids or bit the bullet and took a corporate job. I did both but had to ditch the corporate job, it gave me gas.

A lot of us wanted to distance ourselves from the screamers although we remained quietly radical. We pretty much waited for it to all die down and then got socked with Reaganism, as much a reaction against the screamers as the election of Nixon had been.