Where have all the flower (children) gone?

[RobertEarl]

14. 45 years later

Know what, man? You can't go home, man.
It's over. Ain't coming back.

Those were the good old days.

The one's who are living the dream ain't on DU. They ain't nowhere to be found. Not unless you get off the roads and wander back into the woods.

They dropped out.

They rest of us? Well, we were gonna change the world, and we did. For the worse. We burned the gas, we plugged into the coal, we built our mansions.

AND GOT A JOB!

We cut our hair, snapped on the tie and got a shoeshine. We bought in to the system.

We became the cogs that the machine runs on. True, some cogs are better than others, but cogs we all became. And the machine, man? It has to keep moving, man. It has to get bigger, stronger, faster. More powerful. If it doesn't it will die. Every time it slows down, the country gets the flu, attacks other countries and generally just gets diarrhea.

But they got a soap for that. And hair cream, and shaving tools. Dude! Nearly everyone shaves!

One circle has come around, tho. If you don't have a script and the dealers to fill that script, life is over, man.

It's been fun, and it's been real. It just hasn't been real fun.

You just can't go home. Keep on trucking!