The generation that marched against war, embraced counterculture and promised to change the world now votes overwhelmingly for conservative parties. What happened to the ideals of the baby boomers?

The incubators of Woodstock, and closer to home Nimbin, those who marched in the ‘Moratoriums,’ hippies, who the establishment feared would pull down the whole sacred edifice of capital and progress, the whole counter-cultural milieu. Those wild days of the sixties and seventies. Whatever happened? Why have we of that generation become for the most part, such conservative boring old farts?

Poll after poll make abundantly (frighteningly) clear just how conservative we ‘baby boomers’ have become. I’m about to turn 72, a significant number in Babylonian numerology (think months, hours, minutes, degrees) and I wonder, how on earth did this happen to my generation. Who flicked the switch? When did we become........

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