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Sprecherscrow posted:When I read the book, I viewed it as specifically a companion to the waves speech. The "high water mark" broke and fell back because the culture that pushed it contained an inherent vice insuring it's own failure. The sad truth is the hippies were never going to win. Which is one of the things I liked about it, that Pynchon isn't blinded by nostalgia. It's an honest book in that way. The hippies may not have won, but they didn't exactly lose either. I think you should look into the history of the counter culture movement if you really want to understand. The 60s are still inspiring people today, and even though our culture is in many was (arguably) worse than it was back then, many of the ideas that were first introduced to our culture in the 60s are more pertinent now they they were even back then.
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