IVIV reception: "how forty years ago in 1969 the whole peace and love trip started to wither on the vine"

[Doug Millison]

"The other bit that they don't seem to want to talk about is how forty  
years ago in 1969 the whole peace and love trip started to wither on  
the vine. Not only did that year mark the ascension of Richard Nixon  
to the throne in Washington, but the Prince of Darkness himself,  
Ronald Ray-guns, had been governor of California since 1967. Happy  
Ronnie, who was only glad to help finger Commies in the fifties for  
Joe McCarthy and his Un-Americans, did his best to fight free love,  
free speech, and all those other ungodly behaviours those long haired  
layabouts were engaging in. By the time 1969 washed up on the beach in  
California, heads were already looking over their shoulders to see  
where the long arm of the law was every time they lit up a joint. Of  
course, with paranoia being such a bosom buddy of most drugs to begin  
with it didn't take much to fuel the massive rip tides of mistrust  
that started pulling folks under in the late sixties."

http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-inherent-vice-by-thomas2/